Week 5- Making Culture

Making culture, each of us in our own way does it on a daily basis depending on our personal interests, beliefs, ideologies, practices and so on. Regardless of how exactly you do this, everything you do has the potential to influence culture both on a local and international scale.

How i would characterize my impact on local and international culture, would be through musical consumption, preference, creation, etc. There are numerous ways in which one is able to contribute to culture in this manner; through the bands/artists you choose to support locally and internationally, playing/recording and sharing music yourself, contributing to online forums and discussions via social media, and even by following causes that come to attention within certain social circles.

I like to write and record music myself, play and go see gigs of local and international bands and just in a broad sense engage in music in general. Online platforms provide great opportunity to get immersed in the sharing of musical culture and can even provide positive aspects such as the sharing of noteworthy causes;
Australian band, The Amity Affliction for example, often has anti-suicide messages in their lyrics and thus has a strong affinity with BeyondBlue and HeadSpace which helps to raise awareness of depression.

Fortunati et al would characterise the aforementioned kind of cultural response and sharing of musical ideas as intercultural that is with the pluralistic and open; allowing the crossing of borders from all directions to contribute. (pg 23, 2012)

So in concluding, i'll just end with a last few thoughts; has music always been a source of intercultural culture and to what extent? And does it have power to build upon cultural ideas beyond what is just physically heard?

References-
Fortunati, L et al, Migration, Diaspora and information technology in Global Societies, Routledge, New York, 2012, pg 23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0om8Yi2IA The Amity Affliction// Chasing Ghosts, Roadrunner, 2012