Essay on Cultural Heritage: An Article Review on Popular Music

This essay provides a critical review of an article discussing the relationship between popular music and cultural heritage. The author of the article argues for the inclusion of popular music in the creation of cultural heritage, while the essay writer disagrees with the author's perspective and highlights the author's biased viewpoints. The essay explores how popular music influences cultural heritage, examining the role of music in shaping values, norms, and beliefs. It critiques the author's claims regarding the importance of recognizing past experiences, the challenges of intelligibility in the industry, and the role of community members and visitors in creating heritage. The essay also discusses the significance of material culture, the impact of locating popular music sites, and the influence of organizations like ICOM and UNESCO. The author concludes that the article enhanced his understanding of popular music in forming cultural heritage. The essay provides a comprehensive overview of the article's arguments and offers a critical evaluation of its main points.

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Discussion
Cultural heritage refers to a way of living developed in a community by a specific generation and
is passed over to other generations in different forms. The main message of the article is that,
popular music should take part in creating cultural heritage and the various ways how it can. I
don’t agree with the author because his main ideas reflect an ancient thinking without
considering the current changes that are also important in creating cultural heritage. Below is a
critic of the article on how the author’s writing is biased in various ways.
Popular music as referred in most cases is known to influence the concepts of various values,
norms and beliefs that influence way of life of a specific generation both present and past. The
author puts this idea across in a view that it’s mandatory for every popular set of music to
recognize a past experience or practice in order to create a memory while one can create an idea
to be emulated later as well (Leonard and Robert Strachan, 2010).
Popular music faces various challenges of intelligibility similar to that of traditional times as not
all in the industry are fully modernized unlike the way the author puts it.
Creating cultural heritage is a communal responsibility from the popular music fraternity, the
community members as well as the visitors to enhance a creation that fits all relevant ideas to
enhance its significance. The author gives biased information in that the visitors and the
community members feel left out in creating a significant heritage (Parr, et al, 2009).
Material culture of popular music as the author says, process of its recognition to collection and
display is very important to ensuring that the right material is put on board but its value is not

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developed or made but enhanced. An artefact is not made but enhanced to fit its value to help
explain the heritage unlike what the author suggests of value making to represent both social and
political institutions at the museum level.
Locating popular music sites as indicated by the author in the areas of Northern part of pacific
town will influence the popular message in that area but will not change the original message.
Upon listening to the music set, the listener identifies with a specific cultural heritage hence not
in all cases that the location identifies with the heritage to be formulated.
Every human being relates with a specific cultural heritage and the intervention of the various
organizations like ICOM and UNESCO only help in formalizing the aspect but cannot influence
a cultural change that people are not willing to take part in like the author suggests even if they
are visitors.
Personal engagement like in the case of Nirvana is only a success in presence of willing cultural
individuals and not by willingness of the organization as the author puts it.
Reading the article has enhanced my understanding on the importance of popular music in
forming cultural heritage. The article is worth reading to enhance once knowledge on the scope
of popular music and cultural heritage.

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References
Leonard, Marion, and Robert Strachan. (2010). The Beat Goes On: Liverpool, Popular Music
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the Changing City. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
Parr, Joy, Jessica Van Horssen and Jon van der Veen. (2009). ‘The Practice of History Shared
Across Differences: Needs, Technologies, and Ways of Knowing in the Megaprojects.