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daltonest1984

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Explain the following statement: Euro-Americans may disagree with the Kaluli over whether bird songs have meaning, but they both agree that music has human meaning.
 
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Question 2

The questions What is music? and Is music potentially harmful? deal with
 
  A. musical aesthetics.
   B. music and the belief system
  C. history of music
  D. contexts of music



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Answer to Question 1

 To Euro-Americans songs of birds do not belong to the human world and so are not human expression.
 To the Kaluli the birds' songs represent the voices of their deceased ancestors who have died and changed into birds and so their song represents human meaning to them.
 Both cultures, however, agree that all music must have human meaning to be called music.

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ANS: B. music and the belief system





 

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