I was born and raised in the US and have lived here all my life. I have been studying Spanish for several years and in the process have listened to much Latin music of many genres.Music is part of life. Animal calls are a form of music. All cultures have music in some form. However, music plays different roles in different cultures. Some societies have a corpus (body) of traditional music and songs. Traditional songs, as used here, are songs that have been passed from generation. When someone says, my grandmother used to sing that to me, this is a form of songs being made traditional. The interest in or popularity of traditional songs can be enhanced when new releases are made of old songs.I made a list of traditional Mexican music off the top of my head. To be sure that the songs had survived through several generations, I limited my list to songs that had been released before 1960. The list had about 30 songs. I did some research on the popularity of the songs and reduced my list to about 15 songs. Most of the songs are from the 40s and 50s. Included in that period is the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema and several of the songs are from films. Then I tried to make a list of traditional American songs and realized how few of them there are. There are a few patriotic songs that are considered traditional, but few songs from the 40s and 50s remain alive today. I am not through collecting my data, but my conclusion is that traditional songs play a greater role in Mexican culture than in American culture. They provide an identity to the Mexican people.Note that Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen is not old enough to be called traditional. I suspect that it enough of an anthem that it eventually could.I also have some personal examples (including pictures) of traditional music at Mexican social gatherings. I won’t take time to enumerate them here.I will also mention that at a party in the US, music tends to be background music. In Mexico, music is an active part of the party. Someone will have brought a guitar and eventually it will be taken out and people will begin to sing songs including traditional songs. And sometimes Mariachi bands will have been contracted to perform. And when they do, everybody will join and you may even hear some “gritos” (shouts of enjoyment).What we have in the US is what I will call the oldies phenomenon. People that wish to continue hearing music from their youth can find it on an oldies radio station. But the music is constantly changing. During the 70s, the oldies stations were playing music from the 50s and 60s. During the 80s, the oldies stations were playing music from the 60s and 70. And so forth. As each generation dies off, the music is lost rather than living on and becoming traditional.I am looking for about 2 pages of information that goes from mating calls to the examples that I will introduce. The question is how does music affect a culture. I will take the information from the two pages and reduce it to 1 to 3 paragraphs. Please use the following resources for what you write.1. 10 ways music is intrinsically linked to our cultural identityhttps://www.contiki.com/six-two/10-ways-music-helps-cultural-identity/2. The role of music in ethnic identity formation in diaspora: a research reviewhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.120913. Music and Identity – Georgetown Universityhttp://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Frith-Music-and-Identity-1996.pdf4. Music and Cultural Identityhttps://www.bartleby.com/essay/Music-and-Cultural-Identity-F3SVAJ6SWGDA55. Patriotic Music and Cultural Identityhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-musical-self/201606/patriotic-music-and-cultural-identity
