Select any one work, or piece of music, written/performed in any style or genre, of your own choosing, from a culture other than your own. Write a personalized reflection about this work, identifying what you heard and using appropriate musical terminology. Your reflection should have a minimum of 300 words.

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Comparison of Bollywood Music piece with Hollywood Music

When we compare Bollywood music (Indian) with Hollywood music ( American), Bollywood is considered to be having a leading edge compared to Hollywood.

The best part of bollywood music is poetic quality of song lyrics. Song lyrics have the poetic quality whereas it is strikingly missing in Hollywood. Hollywood music is more of musical beats like metallic,zazz, pop,hip hop , rap etc whereas the lyrics are more important in bollywood music. The musical beats dominate in the hollywood music and lyrics and emotional expressions in bollywood.

When it comes to music in hollywood music,it doesnt play any significant role.Majority of the most popular movies are without any music, whereas in bollywood movies the whole story revolves around the music.Sometimes, few incidents,emotional expressions and part of the story is conveyed throgh music only.

But gradually as India is progressing towards westernization and adopting western culture,the charm of poetic quality in lyrics is losing. In Bollywood also, now the beats are dominating over the lyrics and thus Gulzar era of Gazals and poetic lyrics are now missing in the Bollywood music as well.