Music; from Cultural Challenges to Solutions

Music is a set of sounds or melodies combined and adjusted in a certain order to arouse a feeling or represent a message. So every piece of music is made due to having a certain motivation or intent behind it and it naturally roots in passions, values, attitudes and certain beliefs.
Serious jurisprudential, social and cultural challenges about music especially the ambiguity in its Islamic legitimacy and the possibility of using music for positive cultural purposes are crucial issues with different analysis. There are also so many answers and various solutions for these problems. This article is a part of basic and primary results of an extensive research to resolve a problem entitled as “the investigation of the decree and topic of music”, which has been conducted using a mixed method consisted of documentary studies, collective discussion and interviewing experts. This research categorizes and criticizes the most important viewpoints on this topic such as “the objective recognition of music”,” conceptual review; referencing to the society conventions or experts’ conventions” and “systematic and directional research”. The last approach “systematic and directional research” is mentioned as the only rational and fundamental solution to solve the cultural challenges of music.