RJA#8a: Quotation, Paraphrase, and Summary

Passage:
In the fragmented societies of today, there is no single reference. Cultures, subcultures and individuals build up their own musical identities and aesthetics. Sometimes reference to (or even deep understanding of) a previous context is useful or even essential, sometimes it is irrelevant. Music moves in place and time, is recontextualised, and takes on new significance.
World Music Centre

Quotation:
Music is a very diverse and comlicated happening that ties heavily into the culture of all peoples around the world. Music is also fluid and transends cultures, bonding the peoples of those cultures closer together. As the World Muisc Cetre online states, "Cultures, subcultures and individules build up their own musical identities and aesthetics... Music moves in place and time, is recintextualised, and takes on new signigicance."

Paraphrase:
No singular culture can be used to demonstrate this due to the variety of differences they have. Each society from the individual the whole creates their own musical existance. Understanding the changes a culture's music goes through can be useful or can be unnecessary. Music is not static and can be used for different reasons throughout time.

Summary:
With the broken cultures of today's societies, music is not a clear cut definition. Music not only created within the organized group of people, but also spreads and is altered for a different use. Knowing what music was used for can be helpful in some cases but in others it is not needed.