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What is certain is that the media coverage of music has radically changed the way we have practiced and used music in the 20th century. Anthony Seeger reminds us that musical practice is no longer a face-to-face event for the tiktok video downloader city dweller, and that new genres, styles, and audiences have been created through mediatization (1998: 51).

Although we may lament the vulgarization, simplification and standardization produced by the media, we must also recognize that it has performed important musical and cultural functions, not only influencing the appearance of new genres as Seeger points out, but also transforming itself into a vehicle of memory, contributing to the construction of national identities and expanding the transmission of tradition. Carlos Rojas (2000) maintains that we are facing the definitive positioning of recorded sound as a vehicle of communication and redefinition of musical tradition