http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/being+society PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/27118 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/27118 This article specifically speaks of communication through music while emphasizing the importance of human behavior that is recognized based on the context of music. The author states that while it is easy for even the untrained ear to understand the artists' temperament while listening to a particular song, this analysis can go beyond one person and can be applied to an entire culture. This is possible because one can frame &quot;behavior&quot; in a cultural setting. Thus, if a culture has a particular &lsquo;style' of music that it can be broken down into, this &lsquo;style' is a reflection of the culture itself and a progression or change in that style within a framework of time is representative of change within that culture. The author uses a system of &quot;cantometrics&quot; for rating a song and eventually leading to the possibility of using song as an indicator of &quot;social and psychological pattern in a culture.&quot;<br /><br />Pather Panchali literally translates to &quot;path of song&quot; or &quot;song of the little road.&quot; Panchali here specifically refers to a type of narrative folk song that was performed in Bengal in the early twentieth century. Thus the name of the film is itself representative of the time period it was made in, as well as the culture it alludes to. Composed by maestro Ravi Shankar, the music stays noticeably in tune with the emotional stability of the characters that live in a remote village in Bengal in the 1950's. The art of the music is wedded to the truth of the characters themselves and thus the movie as a compositional whole becomes reflective of the lives of a poor family living in Bengal. <br />