1. By: Daniel Calzone

2. China
 Chinese music has been made since the dawn of chinese
civilization with documents and artifacts providing
evidence of a well developed musical culture as early as the
Zhou Dynasty.
 The famous dragon dance with music is also a remembered
tradition. It is seen on Chinese New Year across the world
by millions.
 Annual events such as the midi modern music festival in
Bejing attract tens of thousands of visitors. There is also the
Snow Music festival in Yunnan. These two events have been
called the Chinese Woodstock's.

3. England
 Throughout its history, the United Kingdom has been a major
exporter and source of musical innovation in the modern and
contemporary eras, drawing its cultural basis from the history of
the United Kingdom, from church music, from Western Culture
and from the ancient and traditional folk music and
instrumentation of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and
Wales.
 In the sense of commercial music enjoyed by the people, British
popular music can be seen to originate in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries with the arrival of the broaside
ballad, which were sold cheaply and in great numbers until the
nineteenth century. Further technological,economic,and social
changes led to new forms of music in the nineteenth
century,including the brass band,which produced a popular form
of classical music.

4. South Africa
 African traditional music is frequently functional in nature.
Performances may be long and often involve the
participation of the audience.
 There aredifferent kinds of work songs, songs
accompanying childbirth, marriage, hunting, political
activities, music to ward off evil spirits and to pay respect to
good spirits. None of their music is performed outside of
it’s intended social context and much of it’s associated with
a particular dance. Some of it, performed by professional
musicians, is sacral music or ceremonial and courtly music
performed at royal courts.

5. Greece separates into two parts: Greek traditional
 Greek music
music and Byzantine music.
 Music was a major part of ancient Greek theater.
 In Ancient Greece, mixed gender choruses were performed
for entertainment, celebration and spiritual reasons.
Instruments included the double-reed aulos and the
plucked string instrument the Lyre, and another stringed
instrument called a Kithara.
 Music was an important part of education in ancient
Greece, and boys were taught music starting at age six.
Greek musical literacy created a flowering of development;
Greek music theory included the Greek musical
modes, eventually became the basis for Western religious
music and Classical music.

6. Italy
 The music of Italy ranges across a broad spectrum of
opera and insrumental classical music and a body of
popular music drawn from both native and imported
sources.
 Music has traditionally been one of the cultural
markers of Italian national and ethnic identity, and
holds an importan position in society and in politics.
 The earliest Italian popular music was the opera of the
19th century. Opera has had a lasting effect on Italy's
folk, classical and popular musics

7. Japan
 The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in
distinct styles both traditional and modern.
 Local music often appears at karaoke venues, which are on
lease from record labels.
 J-pop, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a loosely defined
genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the
1990’s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960’s music such as
The Beatles and Kayokyoku(Japanese lyric singing music)
The term was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish
Japanese music from foreign music, and now refers to most
popular Japanese music.

8. Mexico
 The music of Mexico is very diverse and features a wide range of
different musical styles. It has been influenced by a variety of
cultures, most notably indigenous Mexican and European, since
the late Middle Ages.
 Rumba came from the black Mexican slaves in Veracruz, Mexico
city, and Yucatán. The style began in Cuba and later became
famous in the black community of Mexico.
 The history of Cumbia in Mexico is almost as old as Cumbia in
Colombia. In the 1940s Colombian singers emigrated to
Mexico, where they worked with the Mexican orquestra director
Rafael de Paz.
 The Mexican music market serves as a launching pad to stardom
for a lot of non-Mexican artists who are interested extending the
market-range of their music.

9. Spain
 The Music of Spain has a long history and has played an important part
in the development of western music. It has had a particularly strong
influence upon Latin American music. The music of Spain is often
associated abroad with traditions like flamenco and the classical guitar
but Spanish music is, in fact, diverse from region to region.
 Although Spanish pop music is currently flourishing, the industry
suffered for many years under Francisco Franco’s regime, with few
outlets for spanish performers during the 1930’s through the 1970’s.
Regardless, American and British music, especially rock and roll, had a
profound impact on Spanish audiences and musicians.
 During the 1960s and early 1970s, tourism boomed, bringing yet more
musical styles from the rest of the continent and abroad. However, it
wasn't until the 1980s that Spain's burgeoning pop music industry
began to take off. During this time a cultural reawakening known as La
MovidaMadrilena produced an explosion of new art, film and music
that still exists today.

10. Ireland
 The music of Ireland is termed Irish traditional music.
It has remained vibrant through the 20th, and into the
21st century, despite globalizing local forces.
 In recent decades Irish music in many different genres
has been very successful internationally. However, the
most successful genres have been rock, popular and
traditional fusion.
 The 1960s saw the emergence of major Irish rock
bands and artists, such as Van Morrison, Taste and
Thin Lizzy.

11. Bibliography
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