A survey of the music of a war generation
Thomas Burkhalter
"Various social and cultural scientists1 propagate that research on cultural globalisation and localisation should focus on individuals and their thoughts and ideas, since the latter reflect theoretical concepts such as “identity”, “transnationality” and “hybridity”. My Ph.D. project “Significant Sounds – Beiruti Music between new artistic forms and local, global dependencies” focuses on music, as human ideas and visions are not expressed in words only. Musicians choose local and global forms and styles, sounds and beats to create meaning and to express their connection to different cultural, social and ideological settings. At the same time, music, as individualistic and revolutionary as it might be, is always produced, distributed and discussed within different -scapes (Appadurai 2003) of the outside world.
