41.   The police generally stop unaccompanied men to make sure they are not evading compulsory military service or carrying contraband like alcohol or Western pop music.

42.   The show features Western music and poems as well as telling the Western story through portrayals of historical characters.

43.   Their spirits high, the men joked and kidded as they headed off to the front, blasting Western pop music from their car radios.

44.   There are several reasons for the renewed popularity of western music.

45.   These days, once-forbidden Western pop music blares nonstop from radios and TVs while advertisements for Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Marlboro cigarettes are everywhere.

46.   They mix percussive and pure tones in a ratio consonant with that heard in much Western symphonic music.

47.   This is the playing of someone with only rudimentary understanding of the melodic and harmonic assumptions of mainstream Western music.

48.   Throughout the Orpheus visit, the Vietnamese proved more interested in demonstrating their proficiency in Western music than in responding to requests for Vietnamese music.

49.   Togi also learned to play the cello because modern-day gagaku musicians are required to play Western music to entertain visitors of state from foreign countries.

50.   To compose works that draw from cultural traditions as vastly different as opulent Western orchestral music and spare East Asian traditional music would seem to be asking for trouble.