Domination of Social and Cultural Inhabitancies over Music Training School: the Case of Western Music Performers Living in Iran

In this study the music theory generated in Iranian culture is used to examine the point of view of Western music perform ers living in such culture to see how breathing in a society can influence the fundamental music perspective and music perception, even if one plays a music coming from an extremely different culture. Results showed that Iranian music performers and Western music performers shared views on many significant issues. Since the Western music performers participating in this project were taught only Western music in the Western educational system, results showed that the cultural inhabitancies influenced the musical outlook of the person more than the music school in which such person was educated. Keywords: Music perception within culture • cultural inhabitancy • social inhabitancy • interdisciplinary music research • Western music in the East • Western music in a non-Western context