Wednesday, May 28, 2008

International Perspectives



Music, like the United Nations Agenda 21, is a type of plan that occurs on a national scale where each member impacts the environment in which it exists. Take Drum and Bugle Corps as an example. This is a world wide music scene that personifies the word "community". Music is the same in every language, the notes don't change between country, race or religion. No matter what language you speak or god you believe in music is the same language to every person that listens to it.

Drum and Bugle corps (http://www.dci.org/) brings together every summer, people from all over the world to unite in one loud passionate display of community engagement. The corps jacket one wears is like the flag of their country. The gathering of anaudience to listen to parking lot warmups before the big show is like many communities joining together to give thanks to this one all powerful group that communicated to them in a certain passionate fashion.

Drum corps encourages it's community to "leave it all on the field". Every community should act this way, to have so much dedication that you show up to a community meeting fo sorts with one sole purpose. Everyone at that meeting has the same purpose and when all is said an done that purpose has been communicated in such a way that everyone who has been around to witness feel senspired to spread the word and carry on that passion.

If every community could be like drum corps I believe that each single community and nation could function as an integrated whole in which every member reaped the benefits it had to offer.

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