The local and the global: Traditional musical instruments and modernization

Today regional traditions have an interactive relationship with musical multilingualism and intercultural music-making and improvisation. In our age of tourism, migration, and the growing closer of the world and of technologically determined globalization, the conceptualization of culture and region is musically realized in highly individual and differentiated ways. The region in which music is made is thereby to be differentiated from the (trans)region that is presented symbolically through music. For a long time now, musical identity no longer refers simply one-dimensionally to a single region. In the area of music, increasing multipolar orientations create a continuous deconstruction of concepts of culture and identity. The local and the region, the national and the global have become interconnected in the cultural process of tradition to a " giocai" network.