Blog 7: Higgins and Video of Different Cultures

Upon reading the first chapter of Kathleen Higgins book, The Music of Our Lives, it is interesting as she tries to define the term music. After watching the video in class demonstrating different genres of music across different cultures demonstrates that it would difficult to have one specific definition for music. Higgins presents different definitions that are published in encyclopedias, however they do not seem to cover aspects that could be constituted as music. She also musical Platonism that argues that classical/composed music is real music and that the performance of it is secondary. Higgins disagrees with this view as do I. However, I am interested in finding out if there can be a true definition to music as we move on in the semester.