Handbook of Musical Identities

But why preserve social identity at all costs? When you acquire customs over decades passed by all your ancestors, and your parents by tradition pass the same customs. Then, when come foreigners with different customs and languages, for example, some people do not speak, they simply scream and regurgitate texts in very high volume, which is the nature of their vocal folds, so when you want to sleep at 10 P.M, they decide to listen to music or give parties in a very high volume, and this bothers your centenarian customs. People who come from very poor places and with very bad education, so naturally, when they are not accepted in other locations, they decide to take revenge, the children of those who are born are never totally accepted, this is very sad, but, I cannot change it.

The nationalist discourse to continue to maintain the identity of a nation is very interesting, because the globalizations of the previous centuries have worked out with validity, one day everything dissolves.

You already stopped to think how happy a world was, where there was no oc-am-fm radio frequencies, no black and white TV set, no iphone, 'David Letterman', cinema, email and the letters took weeks or months to get somewhere.
That was very good because it gave each country, time to develop their own rich culture and identity, albeit with influences from other countries, which such influence took many decades to pick up. With this, each country developed with its folk songs, its own erudite or popular music, its local cuisine, its literature, poetry, painting, and everyday clothes.
With that, he also generates envy of each other, in order to show that one can done better and better done than others, thus generating a country competition, Chopin prided himself on being a Polish nationalist, although he lived more in France he continued with Poland in his music.

Mozart in a letter says to his sister, please do not play the Italian Clemente, therefore, it would damage your hands, therefore, Clemente uses very open chords, and thus, Mozart, it valued him self and also the Austrian music.

Bach was isolated in his small town in Germany and only listened to certain centenary things from other countries.

The great composer Ravel refused to give music lessons to Gershwin, because the reason could have been: for Gershwin make the music with the cultural sound of his country, USA, therefore, Ravel could influence him to make French music, being that all Americas are very vulnerable to external influences and should extract its own nationalism with this magnificent and strong African influence, although, the American 'Julia Child' lent all the French cuisine to America.

The prejudice is sometimes within the country itself with its own countrymen, as is the case of Verdi that is not accepted in the largest conservatory of music in Italy, it seems that gave strength to him, and became the greatest and best composer of Operas of all time.

In Russia Tchaikovsky ended up preferring to make music in the French molds, which caused indignation to the nationalists of the Group of Five, better known as The Five, mainly to the Russian composer Balakirev, whose most famous opus is; Islamey, has nothing of Russian, but Arabian influence.

I see that we human beings are still children, it is enough to see some presidents and heads of state with childish behavior, our evolution is slow and cruel, I am happy that in other times, communication between peoples was so difficult that it ended up not influencing so much quicker, Japan and China have unique cultures and identities, as well as India, who have all finished building magnificent and very different musical instruments different from each other, although the Chinese Guzheng has influenced the Japanese Koto, but even so, they are quite different in format and timbre.

Today, we have all ancient cultures cataloged and do not mix more, but today, with information in the speed of light, things are equal in all parts of the globe since the end of the 20th century, music in the world is influenced by only two countries, and ends up getting everything very annoying and lot of sameness.

I do not think that globalizing some things is bad, from the world market that we are hostages, from free entry from one country to the other, without having to pass the exchange house to exchange money.

Some young people think that the speech that has not worked in the past will work today, and so many terrorist attacks will close borders and everything will improve, sorry, but it is back to a time when everything went wrong.

There are countries that are very wealthy financially, but too poor in culture and folklore, so the cultural identity of a people must be preserved, only then will you realize how rich your country is.

Please read it right, because my opinion was not given, I just put the facts of what happens today.