Throughout the modernization of the Western world, music has become ever more intertwined with community. Western music has become a product of the rationalization and disenchantment with the world. However music and community have had a relationship all over the world for centuries.
People live in communities by virtue of what they have in common.
For example, a community is defined by a set of traits, political, historical, traditional, and cultural. Types of community could be the white community, Christian community, a specific place or a community, or just any public arena where one of these interests or traits are shared by more than one person. Music creates commonalties or at least expresses these common traits of people. A common trait may initially attract a listener to a certain type of music. NEXT BACK Reggae music expresses life for the Rastafarian community.