Música

Music, a different perspective

«In my personal life I have defined music as one more language I can speak in order to spread a message; I have felt how music has told me such beautiful stories and how it can really show the real and sensitive part of the world.»

José Daniel Hernández

Licenciatura en Lenguas Modernas

Music is a whole new world the same way a new language is. Music has variations, accents, differences and similarities, exceptions, and lots of different things to relate with languages. These characteristics define from where and when the music comes from; so looking from this perspective, these two elements are not that different. In my personal life I have defined music as one more language I can speak in order to spread a message; I have felt how music has told me such beautiful stories and how it can really show the real and sensitive part of the world. Hence, we can live dif“We can evidence that languages and conversations are not the only way for improving the knowledge we have from the world since we can look at a tool that has been our loyal friend since very far times: the music.”

ferent types of music in very enjoyable and cultural perspectives.

First of all, music can make you more human that you imagine. Reggaeton and salsa are not the only genres there are. You can feel the music and the world from very different perspectives the same way you learn that from languages, and that is by discovering new cultures and opening your ears to unknown things. In addition, there are different ways of learning: looking for those vintage classical artists like Mozart or Beethoven, trying to get new music in different languages you can listen while going on Transmilenio or walking down the street to your house, or even attempting to discover the soundtrack of that movie that turns you crazy. Moreover, discovering the world from the music is not that difficult, and nowadays we have the opportunity to vary our musical likes with, for example, funk music (Brazil), dumka music (Russia), or even K-POP (South Korea). Today we have lots of tools with which we can look for these

types of strange music. Secondly, the connection between these types of music and languages is that we can find them very interesting in terms of cultural knowledge. For example, in Brazilian funk there is a very important You can feel the music and the world feminist message because of its from very different perspectives the change of lyrics the last years. Resame way you learn that from languages, and that is by discovering new cultures and opening your ears to unknown things. cently, rapping in French has become a way of threating depression for lots of people, and this is due to these slow rhythms and some lyrics about how some people has crossed and successfully surpassed difficult moments, such as heartbreaks, or even depression relapses. Another example can be identified in Russian electro music, where it is common to listen how it is lived the life in a society with uncommon drugs, sex or excesses. Finally, there are very big possibilities in order to improve our capacity of knowledge of the world we are living in by listening to music. In the information era there are billions of opportunities for getting a new job, knowing people, studying; but also different and modern ways to expand the way we, as human beings, see the world. Summarizing, we can evidence that languages and conversations are not the only way for improving the knowledge we have from the world since we can look at Interculturality and Music. a tool that has been our loyal friend Taken from: https://bit.ly/358DDj8 since very far times: the music.