Classical Music Heritage and the Growing Pop-Culture

Classical and pop music have their own identity and popular among their followers. Youth is more attracted to pop and oldies are more attracted to classical music. Impact of western culture on youth is one of the reason behind liking of pop music by youth, the one who like classical music are considered as off-fashion.

But root is root and leaf is leaf, As Sanskrit is mother of all languages, classical music is a root of all musics and gives peace of mind. And peace of mind is permanent and essential purpose of listening music.

Hello friends, as I think both classical & pop music good in their own respect, It depend on the choice of person what kind of taste he have in music. We can, t listen only one kind of music ever long as after some time it start boring us.

I think most of the music lover like both the rock singer like Atif Aslam, KK, Mohit Chauhan as well as classical singer Kailas kher, Fateh Ali Khan. If You have listen rock music of JAL, Call & Junoon like bands it is so melodious. Young generation always love to listen them. As far as classical is concern in India it is so famous & people can, t leave without listening it. Classical music just remove us from the day to day tension & we are emotionally touch with it. But when its any party time & any huge happiness then we mostly prefer to POP & Mix music.

So it also depend little on situation. So we can say all kind of music is good either it classical or Pop. Music always spread harmony & peace to our life environment. Classical music is the father of all kind of music & it ever lasting in India.

As we cannot compare between an apple and an orange so we can't compare between classical and pop music. Both have their respective followers. Where classical music reflects our heritage pop music reflects globalization. It reflects the open mindedness of Indians to accept a foreign culture as our own. There are few people out there like myself who prefer both kinds of music depending on the mood. When we are happy and cheerful we prefer pop music like Arijit sing or back street boys and when we are in a peaceful situation or melancholy mood then listen to Rabindra Sangeet or Sufi songs. Thank you.

Music is a medium of expressing one's own feeling. Introduction of pop music in India is not bad. But the way youth have started hating our own classical music, pop music seems disaster. Its not bad to respect the culture of other's. But at the same time it is not proper to hate our own civilization.

Foreigners love our classical music and that's what we are famous for. But we only start hating it, then what will be it's effect on the foreigners ? today's youth are crazy over pop music, but they don't respect our own cultural music. And that's really a big compliment to Indian culture.

On the surface level, someone can say that classical music is for peace, but actually both Indian and western classical music is a roller coaster of emotions. The harmony or a melody in a symphony can make you happy or sad depending on the mood of the piece. Each and every rhythm and melody in a piece can tell a beautiful story about something. This is one of the biggest reasons why classical music is immortal. Not only there are a lot of pieces in this genre, but the interpretation of every piece is different from different musician, which may set the mood of the piece completely different. It is wrong to say classical music old fashioned since people still listen to classical music. On the other hand, if we talk about pop music, We lost beautiful harmony and melody in today's music. People listen to pop music for enjoyment, but it is actually not fun to listen to pop music. I am not saying everyone to stop listening to pop music and start listening to classical music. I was just sharing my openion.

Hi friends.

Basically most important thing is why do we need to listen the music? there are many reasons as it depends on everyone's thinking. Music meant for peace of mind and harmony to the life and for that classical music is best than other at the same time pop-music is sign of passion, so all its depend on one's mood and mentality what to listen and when.

Pop music is becoming popularize in our contemporary fast beat life. The music company, media are promoting & advertising the pop music in such a manner that it is becoming more appealing to the youth. Classical music fetch fame whereas pop music yield money. So, the youth are getting little chance to come in contact with classical music which is leading themselves towards spiritual deterioration. Henceforth they are losing their interest in indulging themselves in social welfare work.

We must know about the pop music, but we have to encourage our classical music rather than pop music. Our culture relies upon the classical music. Today, youngsters don't know the value of our classical music, its feelings etc.

I am a student. So people expect me like pop music. But I am taking training in classical music, people consider classical music to be very boring but the first time I entered my classes and I felt that the Indian classical music is so rich, deep, divine and very peaceful. It is the purest form of music. From that day, I have reduced listening to western music. Classical Music makes your soul and heart happy. We know that there are music therapies going through the classical music. Pop music can be heard only in some situations but classical music can listen any time and you will be happy.

Yes indeed pop & classical music have their own individual importance. Let it be India or any other country in the world. There exists an equilibrium between that country's classical music and new age/pop music.

Here, as the context is between Indian classical music and Indi Pop, classical music should be given a bit higher priority because the pop music that we all listen today has its roots from Indian classical music only. Pop uses the same musical terminologies and methods that are used in classical music. So it is classical music which is the root of a diverse tree what we call as music, and all other genres are all branches of it. If Indian classical music wouldn't have been established by early age musicians and gurus, then I'm afraid we couldn't have experienced the charm of our favourite popstars or singers.