How much does music influence society

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Anthony Elward, piano teacher at WKMT London, shares his ideas about how music might have influenced society. He also provides some insight on how much our musical choices tell about ourselves.

It is very well written and can definitely ignite some debate. You can comment later about your thoughts.

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It is very well written and can definitely ignite some debate.

It would be good for you to hire a language professional to proofread and edit such articles before publishing them on your school's site, and it would be money well spent.  Whatever expertise the writer may have in music, it gets lost if the language is incomprehensible and there are basic grammar mistakes.  You can either have an editor do this, or let your teacher write in his native language and have an expert professional trained translator translate it.  I suggest the latter, since one can express oneself best in one's native tongue.

In its present form it is not well written, due to an apparent problem with the English language.  If polished, there may be some interesting ideas.  In fact, far from seeing them as an object for debate, the idea of different genres talking to each other, and musicians not staying in any single "musical ghetto" makes sense, and some people are doing so.

The last paragraph is written in a markedly different style.  Does it come from another source?

Jazz did not just come from what Western composers developed.  Among others, there were of course the rich African musical cultures.  My knowledge is not that deep here.  There would be rhythmic things, as well as the "blues notes" which cannot be replicated on fixed-pitch instruments such as piano.