MUSIC IS THE KEY COMMUNICATOR

                                                             

I am going to share with you the best and powerful cultural expression mainly to communicate in mass mobilization. I am talking about nothing else but music. What exactly is music? Music is a form of communication that can represent human emotions, personal style, geographic origins, spiritual foundations, social conditions, and other aspects of humanity. Music is the best way to express your views and to communicate in the contemporary society, as you may agree with me as my reader, if you do not agree keep on reading, you will end up agreeing. “Music is a universal language that transcends boundaries and bond people even thousands of miles apart” (http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-24-2005-64674.asp).

For my own opinion, I say music is the voice for the voiceless, in a way that some artists sing about the things that are experienced in the informal settlements (shacks), for an example.   What I have just said is also agreed by Hans Christian Anderson (was a Danish author and poet) where he says “Where words fail, music speaks”. You find in some situations that government has a blind eye, or turns to be defiant in some bad conditions in shacks but through music the government end up attending to the particular condition. For an example there are songs like ‘village ghetto land’, performed by Stevie Wonder (singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, activist. He is from Detroit, Michigan, United States), from the album ‘songs in the key of life’, it is about struggles and dangers of living in the ghetto. Only if I can quote some few words from the song “children play with rusted cars, sores cover their hands, politicians laugh and drink, drunk to all demands”. See what I mean?

As I have tried to state in my introduction paragraph that there are some other ways of cultural expression other than music, like sport, religion and others. The fact remains is that they all come after music, we just cannot cope without music. Even in sport occasions music is there, new songs are invented. In the 2010 FIFA World Cup for an example, an official song was composed by an American artist Shakira; the name of the song was ‘waka waka’, which means do it. This made many different cultures to unite and be happy as one. Though many people did not know the meaning of the song but they liked it very much because of the way it showed African Ubuntu to the face of the world because music is a direct reflection of the picture of a particular society. Music is indeed the key in communication and plays a big role in uniting various cultures as one.

Music is not just music but a life saver at some points, I read many stories about people who were alone ready to commit suicide, but listened to a certain song that got them through the pain they were feeling. To prove music is the powerful medium of communication, it used everywhere, from parliament to manifestoes with the aim of catching votes, from a national team to the world with the aim of lifting spirits.

Music has more than any other art, the infinite capacity to express to thousands of listeners, in thousand of different accents, in an animate but irresponsible manner, what will be otherwise be incommunicable.