In contemporary Western music culture the term of improvisation is heavily affiliated with musical idiom of jazz nowadays, and alludes to the sense of freedom that is more than often also found in African music societies. It can therefore be concluded the the freedom of African performances are not as boundless as that of the Western idiom, but perhaps African harmonic aesthetics far exceed the explorations of the well-known Classical music culture. Traditional ethnomusicology has managed to infiltrate the social communities of Western life by offering American and African students like myself, the advantage in an attempt to extend the cultural heritage of all music traditions, bringing forth its light into the 21st century Global Community. There are exceeding numbers of higher-education institutions that offer this journey into the depths of Ethnomusicology; by some even integrating its anthropology departments with that of its music department. I dream of, one day, leading world music ensembles and vocal choirs, as a celebration of my African heritage and my Western inheritance. As a young African, navigating his way through the steep hills and valleys of adulthood, I'd like to imagine the study of Ethnomusicology being the positive force behind my growth as a practitioner of music and a spectator of the value it can bring to the global society, in which we live. Positive reinforcement is perhaps today exampled as, Western musicology being the map to finding the the unique greatness of cultural wealth, which is its older brother, Ethnomusicology; and I would like to be a part of the community that realize the importance of its history and future, in today's times. 2015 (c) MAEJAH SONIC PICTURES...

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