Mythology, Music, Globalization, Glocalization, Archetype, Symbol, Collective unconscious, Carl Gustav Jung, Musical culture, Contemporary music

Mythology can be understood as an interpretative frame not only for ancient man, but also for many today´s phenomena: music, globalisation, cultural and art diversity. Music has the ability to express an archetypal content (according the analytical psychology by Carl Gustav Jung) through the process of symbolisation and this general base is communicated by different cultures. In this contribution we will point out possible bindings of the collective conscious and collective unconscious, archetypes in different meanings in the relations to the contemporary global music culture. The illusion of globalisation as the current state of music culture in general is identified on several examples: alienation and disturbed identity with the tradition and identification with our native culture, superficial enchantment by "foreign", incompetence of hermeneutic understanding, the lack of numinosity in contact with art. Also, there is a significant contrast between the global music culture (as a mass culture) and global contemporary music, which is reserved to a narrow social group (with ideological background) with request of high educational competence. Global music culture is therefore understood as a complex existence of many cultural areas with different level of separation. On the other hand, the global music culture is an example of the process called expansion of the collective conscious with a positive effect. Our connection with cultural roots is archetypical, a deeper understanding of our own culture is an assumption for our ability to understand and live in our global village.