My Musical Community

With the advent of mass production since the Industrial Revolution, there has been an aggregation of consumer culture to compensate for the overproduction of goods. Art is also a victim of this domineering culture of consumerism in the 21st century in the sense that people get their artistic, aesthetic, and musical experiences by buying commodities for sale, such as tickets for the Broadway shows, albums, or paintings. The commodification of music, in particular, has changed how musical communities are formed. Gone are the pre-modern eras when members of a small community coalesced in rituals, ceremonies, and fairs involving music in the form of communal expression as people today obtain musical experiences more passively. As philosopher Baker
I first joined this group at the suggestion of my personal clarinet teacher, the leading player of the clarinet section, and many other amateur musicians have joined through their acquaintances. The band consists of about 70 people and meets 3 times a week for 3 hours. Our central goal resides in hosting free music concerts in different hospitals and health centers in South Korea for long-term patients. The members, connected by a common love and passion for music, make meaning through actively interacting with the audience by bestowing this conviviality of music to the patients and elevating their
No longer are the lay individuals participants of music-making in a communal setting, the responsibilities of creating music are left to the experts, while the lay individuals passively absorb the music with detachment and entertainment purposes. On the other hand, he reminisces how rural art is more participative and captures the intimacy with the concrete substance and life of the community. Similarly, Barbara Ehrenreich agrees with Brownell in that modern forms of entertainment in an era of consumer culture are insufficient in that they provide solitary and passive enjoyment. When strictly seen from the perspective of Brownell, our musical concerts are a form of urban art that engenders an environment of passive spectators. However, our music is distinguished from the aspects of urban art, as we offer free access to our music to fill up the insufficiency that Ehrenreich has identified by communicating meaning through music. In other words, our group exists to share the vitality of the music with the patients hoping this emotional bond created through music will build an interactive community between the