Music as Culture

When I was in Cannes this summer I noticed that the music playing in their clubs was switched with the music in the United States. The rap and hip-hop was something I had heard years before but the techno/house music was so much newer then ours. I wonder why it would work that way. I guess the obvious answer would seem to be that most of the techno/house music is from Europe and most of the rap music is from the U.S. and this made me realize how much music is part of the culture. I would never wonder why people dress differently, but for some reason music to me seemed more universal than it is. Music is something unique to a certain place and when thinking about the lyrics and moods of the music show a lot about where they are from. It expresses issues and aspects of the culture that they are from.