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What are the differences between music's roles in a mass culture and a minority culture?
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What are the differences between music's roles in a mass culture and a minority culture? Culture is defined in the dictionary as: "Ideas, customs, and art of a particular society." A mass culture would, therefore, be the ideas, customs, and art of a particular society predominate in its strength/number of members over other societies. A minority culture would be the ideas, customs, and art of a society significantly lesser in strength/number of members than a mass culture. A society that has congealed its art into "cultural wealth" and rationalised it into a code of "cultural values" makes culture unattainable by the common person, and imposes an unnecessary respect and worship of culture. Culture is not something that can be possessed, like books, paintings or pieces of music, it is present only in hearing, seeing, or understanding. Music in particular is, in the words of John Cage, "a celebration that we own...
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