Investigation of relationship between national identity and traditional musical education (case study: undergraduate students of Iranian and world instrument playing faculty of Tehran university)

Subject Areas : Journal of Cultural Management

محمدرضا تاجیک ¹ , نازنین پیله وری ² , یاشار اسدپور ³

1 - ندارد
2 - مسئول مکاتبات
3 - ندارد

Received: 2014-08-29 Accepted : 2014-08-29 Published : 2013-09-23

Keywords: national identity, Education, Traditional music, Culture,

Abstract :

This research is dealing with the investigation of relationship between national identity and traditional music education. In this regard, at first the importance of the subject is investigated, afterward the concept of national identity and its dimension are described, and some definitions on culture, music, traditional music, education, and finally music education are provided. In investigating of national identity, the dimension of Persian Literature and Language, Land, Social, Cultural Heritage, and History are developed as components of national identity. In this research, the scholar seeks to demonstrate that traditional music education has the effect on national identity. The scholar not only knows the fact that traditional music is an important component in dimension area of Persian Literature and Language, but also seeks to demonstrate that other dimension of national identity are enhanced by the integration content of traditional music, and also traditional music education affects other dimension and this affect is so considerable that can be a new research subject To clear that, theoretical viewpoints and definitions have been specified very well in order to operationalize research dimension. The statistical population of this research is "undergraduate students of Iranian and world instrument playing faculty of Tehran University" and sampling method is "Judgment Targeted Sampling Method". In this research, data collecting has been accomplished through questionnaire and since the dependent variable that has been investigated after incidence and the research is an ex post facto research, causal-comparative method has been used. According to results obtained, traditional music education has a large effect in all dimensions of national identity, especially in dimensions of social and cultural heritage, and significant differences between the experimental group and control group confirm the hypothesis of the research