Perhaps those cultures which don't use the dominant-to-tonic harmonic motion simply haven't discovered it yet.
that, again, is musical colonialism.
Certainly people who come from cultures which lack that relationship respond favorably to music which has it as a strong central characteristic.
responding favourably is not the same as perceiving an inherent "need" to have I follow V; the two points are NOT part of the same discussion; you can't use appreciation of western culture by non-western listeners as justification for the V-I need.
With potential incomes from Western classical music, on average, not very high, it can't be purely economic reasoning which drives people who grew up in these cultures to push their children into fervid study of violin and piano.
there are a number of social values involved here which may be of greater importance than pure and **immediate** economic values. it is of considerable social value in some circles in korea and japan (for example) to have a western education. this extends into the music world as well: there are many students from these countries who return to their native countries after getting the degree and are automatically given a status that someone without such an experience / education would get, and this regardless of the talent of the persons involved.
there are implications on the social (marriage potential) and professional (job positions) life of such a person; it is not uncommon that a musical degree is a means to a non-musical end. the specifics of the degree are not terribly important, it could be music, architecture, medicine... it is not rare that female students return "home" with this "enhanced" status to a "decent" marriage and abandon their musical pursuits once the "goal" has been achieved. (discussions with students and profs in germany will confirm this)
in your comments, a solo career would seem to be suggested, in which case, if successful, would yield a fairly sizable income; so yes, economic factors are certainly at play here as well.
What drove Chairman Mao (or whichever of his advisors was behind it) to push the Cultural Revolution with such an iron fist, if not the fact that he realized that his people were responding so strongly to Western music, especially Western classical music?
i'm not an expert on this, but political factors can surely be shown to have influenced to a certain extent the interest in western culture.
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