The Yup’ik or Inuit tradition is one of the most fascinating out there partly because of how different everything is from what we are used to in the west, including music. [1][2]
The first link is very reminiscent to a CD of native australian aborigine music, even quite similar at some points. I'd like to know if the inuit or aboriginal people see music in the same way we do, as an entertainment[0], or something else.
[0] A fair bit of classical western music historically was IIRC for dedication to god rather than entertainment. I guess 'music' may be too broad a term, or have too many connotations to be useful here. Musicologists please chime in.
[1] https://youtu.be/_Q005ElC2Ew
[2] https://youtu.be/fPI2dXcn8Vw
[0] A fair bit of classical western music historically was IIRC for dedication to god rather than entertainment. I guess 'music' may be too broad a term, or have too many connotations to be useful here. Musicologists please chime in.
A lot of more recent music is also political. For "classical" music, see Shostakovich's interactions with Stalin.
In America, Nina Simone's "Strange Fruit" and "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy spring to mind, but I'm sure there are countless examples.