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Music, vehicle of cultural identity
Comenius project 2012-2014
INS Ronda (Lleida)
According to the Catalan school the majority of the people interviewed chose Catalan songs. "Sense tu" was the first song chosen, but also some foreign famous songs were chosen such as "La vie en rose" and "Pretty woman".
Istituto Superiore Gentilleschi (Naples)
Most of the Italian students interviewed (between 14 and 15) chose a foreign song, "I don't wanna miss a thing". The group who wrote this song is Aerosmith and the theme is love. The students attend the second year of a linguistic secondary school and they live in a urban area. They also like some Italian singers such as Laura Pausini who is known all over the world and Emma, a young singer who comes from a talent show.
Utenos r. Leliunu pagrindiné mokykla (Leliunai)
In Lithuania, among the people interviewed, women under twenty and over forty answered the most. Young people know both lyrics and music of their favourite songs. Adults remember lyrics above all for political reason.
Stredna Doborna Skola (Luhacovice)
Czech people say they prefer foreign songs such as "Welcome to the Jungle" by Gun's and Roses, a rock group, very popular during the 80s - 90s,"Forever" by Kiss and also the famous song "Forever young" sang in Czech by Karel Gott.
The very interesting thing is that in the survey they also mentioned the national anthem because they are very proud of their country.
Survey, "Songs that have become icons for different generations"
Every school in each country carried out a survey asking people which three songs they thought had marked their generation the most.The students classified people depending on their gender, age, hometown, studies, reasons why they remembered the songs and if they remembered the music and the lyrics. They interviewed parents, grandparents, teachers, friends, neighbours and then they made a list of the most popular songs chosen. Furthermore students collected all the information about the favourite songs such as photographs, lyrics (in their original language and a translation into English) and music in a power point including graphics and mp3 files.
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