Hi guys!
I posted a similar post on Facebook, and about 5 minutes afterward Brice messaged me and recommended I post on here, I can see that she’s quite influential 
As a short intro, I’m originally from the US, spent seven years living in Austria as a U.N. family, and then moved back to the States where I’ve been trapped for the last twelve or so years. I sing opera, and hopefully someday will spend a good deal of time traveling and being generally unstable.
I’m posting on here specifically because I’m taking a course on Transnationalism – specifically, ethnomusicology, the study of non-Western musics. For my final project, I’m taking a look at how TCKs view world music and culture; my theories include the idea that we’re a lot more open and accepting of cultural sharing than the average musicologist, who tend to generally be panicky and apocalyptic. So, I’ve created this survey in the hopes that a few enthusiastic TCKs would be willing to fill it out and give me some data to hypothesize about. You can fill it out in as little or much detail as you’d like, and please feel free to elaborate as to any specific opinions you might have! The best way to do it will be just copy-paste the text and type your answers next to the questions, like any other old internet survey. I appreciate your help so much!
1) Your age:
2) Your gender:
3) Your nationality(-ies):
4) The country(-ies) in which you grew up:
5) The country(-ies) your parents are from:
6) Is there music from particular countries that you enjoy? What genres?
7) Who are some of your favorite artists? Why?
How do you identify with the music of the country(-ies) you grew up in? Do you like it? Not like it?
9) Do you feel like you grew up in an “international community”? What was that like?
10) Do you identify with other cultures outside your own nationality and where you grew up? Which ones? Why?
11) Do you think your taste in music is influenced by the fact that you grew up outside your home country?
12) What kind of music did your parents listen to?
13) What kind of school(s) did you go to (ie. international, local, etc.)
14) Were you taught about music from other cultures in your music classes in school? What types?
15) When you were growing up outside your “home” country(-ies), how did you listen to music? For example, CDs/tapes from your home country, CD/tapes from your host country, the radio where you lived, internet radio from home country, etc.
Agree or Disagree, on a scale of 1-5 (1=Strongly Agree, 2=Agree, 3=Neutral, 4=Disagree, 5=Strongly Disagree) Please elaborate on any topic if you would like to!
Music of all cultures should be shared.
Music of some cultures should be shared within a similar region or continent because they’ll better understand it.
Music and culture as a whole shouldn’t be shared because we’ll lose a sense of what those cultures are.
People should receive compensation (ie. money) for the music they create.
People should receive compensation for the music they make, but in proportion to the amount of work they put in.
Musicians should receive compensation for the music they make in proportion to how much a musician in the country they live in would make.
Musicians should receive compensation for the music they make in proportion to how much the main star of the album is making in their home country (industry standard).
It is acceptable for musicians of one culture to use music of another unrelated culture.
It is good for musicians of one culture to use music of another unrelated culture.
It is acceptable for musicians of several cultures to mix music from these cultures.
It is acceptable for musicians of several cultures to market themselves as one culture, and still use music from another culture.
It is acceptable for musicians from the international community to use music from all cultures to which they have been exposed through the community, such as by friends.
Permission should be asked by an outsider to use another culture’s music.
Permission should be asked and credit given in the album notes by an outsider to use another person’s music.
Permission should be asked, credit given, and money shared by an outsider to use another person’s music.
There should be legal, binding contracts between all musical collaborations that involve money.
There should be legal, binding contracts between all musical collaborations.
The more cultural influences in a piece of music, the better.
Musicians should be careful which cultural influences they use in their music.
Musicians should do extensive amounts of research about the cultural influences they use in their music.
Musicians should be encouraged to take inspiration from other cultures.
Musicians should generally only play music from their own culture.
Musicians generally ruin music they play that doesn’t come from their own culture.
Musicians should be as trained in the history and theory of their own music as possible.
Musicians should be as informed about the history and theory of the music of other cultures they use.
Music from different cultures is starting to sound more and more the same.
Music sounding more and more the same is great because people can then all relate to it.
Music sounding more and more the same is bad because then there’s no diversity of sound.
It’s great that one culture’s music is being fused with another’s to create new genres.
Music that is used for one specific purpose in one culture shouldn’t be taken and used for other purposes in another (ie. for rituals in one, for entertainment in another)
It is acceptable to incorporate traditional songs/folk music into popular music only if used by a musician from that culture.
It is acceptable to incorporate traditional songs/folk music into popular music only if the original community receives some share of the profits.
Globalism is a great phenomenon that we should be excited about.
Globalism is a negative product of the West that takes away the individualism of cultures.
Globalism is helping the economies of all countries improve and thrive.
Knowing what’s going on in the local music scene is important to me.
Knowing what’s playing in the Top 40 charts is important to me.
Knowing what’s going on in the music scene in my home country is important to me.
Copyright law should be something determined by international law, not by individual countries.
Music from one musician can only be truly understood by people from that musician’s culture.
Music is the one language that can be understood all over the world.
Multiple Choice
If you wrote a piece of music, and later heard it being remixed by a DJ and put on his album, you would
a) Be ecstatic! Your music is famous!
b) Contact the DJ to see if you were given any credit for the original song.
c) Seek legal action to make sure you got a cut of the profits.
If you heard a piece of music that was mainly pop music but clearly used some musical styles from your home country in a way that didn’t sound authentic, you would
a) Praise it for the new synthesis of sounds; the more acceptance the better.
b) Hate the music because they disrespected the music and what it means for your people.
c) Not like the music but at least appreciate the musician for trying.
If you got to become the next big pop star, for backup musicians you would:
a) Use only musicians who had a cultural background like yours so they could understand your music.
b) Get the musicians around who have played with all the other pop stars, they can play anything.
c) Get a mix of musicians so that they can tell you both how to be famous in pop music, but also let you sing what you want to sing.
Additional comments:
That’s everything that I’ve got! Thank you so much for participating in this survey, I’m excited to help bring the opinions and experiences of TCKs further out into the open!
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