Background Sources

1.  Music Loss among Ethnic Minorities in China -- A Comparison of the Li and Hui Peoples
          Yang Mu
          http://www.jstor.org/stable/834498
2.  The Decline of Folk Traditions in Modern Societies
          http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=c&p=a&a=i&ID=1664
3.  The Global Monoculture (from Perspectives on Globalization)
          Maude Barlow
4.  Jeremy Grimshaw, Ph.D.
          BYU School of Music- Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology
5.  Colonization, "Westernization" and Social Culture in the Post-Colonial Societies
          http://india_resource.tripod.com/colonial-impact-culture.html

Thesis

Here is my tentative thesis.  Please give all the help you can, classmates. :)

With the things of the world being so accessible today, things like music and movies and news are able to spread worldwide in a matter of minuets.  With this happening, individual cultures are taking a toll.  With globalization, music is becoming more and more similar, no matter where it comes from.  Globalization is bring about the destruction of each individual cultures musical tradition.  People are turning their backs on their own traditions and complying to what everybody else is doing with music.

Issues Idea

Well as many of you know, I am a music major.  Music is one of the few things that I really, really care about and during class I was trying to figure out something that would relate to music in some way.  It finally came.  I want to talk about how globalization is destroying cultures cultural music.  Now a days, music is becoming world wide and cultures are forgetting their own musical traditions.  I see this a a major issue and think that it would be something that i could write about and really care about as I write.

Here are two videos of some really cool cultural music.  It is called Mongolian Throat Singing.  It is one of the coolest things you will ever hear.  Watch Them!