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Material culture refers to the touchable, material "things"--physical object
Material culture refers to the touchable, material "things"--physical object
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2023-12-14
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Material culture refers to the touchable, material "things"--physical objects that can be seen, held, felt, used--that a culture produces. Examining a culture’s tools and technology can tell us about the group’s history and way of life. Similarly, research into the material culture of music can help us to understand the music-culture. The most vivid body of "things" in it, of course, are musical instruments[ We cannot hear for ourselves the actual sound of any musical performance before the 1870s when the phonograph (留声机) was invented, so we rely on instruments for important information about music-cultures in the remote past and their development. Here we have two kinds of evidence: instruments well preserved and instruments pictured in art. Through the study of instruments, as well as paintings, written documents, and so on, we can explore the movement of music from the Near East to China over a thousand years ago, or we can outline the spread of Near Easteru influence to Europe that resulted in the development of most of the instruments in the symphony orchestra.
Sheet music or printed music, too, is material culture. Scholars once defined folk music-cultures as those in which people learn and sing music by ear rather than from print, but research shows mutual influence among oral and written sources during the past few centuries in Europe, Britain, and America. Printed versions limit variety because they tend to standardize any song, yet they stimulate people to create new and different songs. Besides, the ability to read music notation (乐谱) has a far-reaching effect on musicians and, when it becomes widespread, on the music-culture as a whole.
One more important part of music’s material culture should be singled out: the influence of the electronic media--radio, record player, tape recorder, television, and videocassette recorder, with the future promising talking and singing computers and other developments. This is all part of the "information revolution", a twentieth-century phenomenon as important as the industrial revolution was in the nineteenth. These electronic media are not just limited to modern nations, they have affected music-cultures all over the globe. [br] Research into the material culture of a nation is of great importance because ______.
选项
A、it helps produce new cultural tools and technology
B、it can reflect the development of the nation
C、it helps understand the nation’s past and present
D、it can demonstrate the nation’s civilization
答案
C
解析
要正确回答这一题,首先要对文章中的两类概念有正确的理解:culture,music-culture和material culture,material things,culture’s tools,the most vivid body of things。前者是指一种抽象的文化,后者是可以触摸的承载这种文化的载体。留声机发明前的音乐的“音”已经消失了,但它的载体——乐器可能还存在,对这种载体的研究当然可以帮助我们了解当时的情况。而且,综合文章第一段第二句和第三句来理解,可得知C为正确答案。
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