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UA researcher Brian Moon, an expert on American music traditions and popular music trends, shares how festivals have shaped the industry. Amongst other things, I am a 2009-2010 Thomas J. Watson Fellow learning about ¨The Music of Nature and the Nature of Music¨ in Norway, India, Peru, Bali, Cameroon, and Tuva. It has many effects on us. Music sometimes enables us to express feelings, ideas, thoughts, and emotions that we cannot express through words or acts.

Music touches our lives in various ways that are sometimes conspicuous and sometimes subtle. As I’m always on the lookout for …