How is music not a universal language

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Question 1 - People in modern Western culture typically assume that if a person has some interest in playing a musical instrument, he or she can reasonably expect to purchase the relevant knowledge via lessons from a teacher on that musical instrument. Alternatively, we might assume that if someone likes a piece of music, they should be able to purchase a recording of it. Our typical way of looking at music as a commercial commodity is not really that odd until we come across an experience such as that described by Paul Berliner. Read Berliner's account of his experience with a master of mbira (thumb-piano) music in Zimbabwe. Taking into account what you have just read in this paragraph, reflect on Berliner's chapter and discuss what you discovered that especially struck you as interesting.

Question 2 - Read and re-read Bruno Nettl's chapter, "The Art of Combining Tones." In a carefully written paragraph, explain why the statement "music is a universal language" would send an ethnomusicologist such as Nettl into a coughing spasm. (How is music not a universal language?

Textbook - The Musical Ascent of Herman Being: A How-To Novel by Robert Danziger. ISBN: 0-9613427-8-1.

Note - Words Count: 400 words: 200 words for each question and please don't forget to put the answers under the questions.

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