Discuss the use of Euro American and traditional African musical features in the postal workers’ work “music.” How does the question, “Is this music?” relate to this “sound event”?
What will be an ideal response?
• Euro American musical features: duple-metered melodies based on a seven-note major scale and related harmony
• traditional African musical features: polyrhythms, improvisation, and repetition
• The postal workers thought the sounds they were creating synchronized their work rather than being a musical performance.
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