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Module 6 Blog MUH6515

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World Music Listening Blog Post #6 Topic:   D iscuss what role play has in socialization.   ------------------------------------ Title: Amazing African Children's Band Artists: African Children Culture: Africa Orchestration:  idiophones, voice, corpophone           Several aspects of this video immediately displayed the social hierarchy Lew and Campbell (2005) described in this week's reading. Lew and Campbell (2005) discuss children's cooperation, competition and turn taking and the importance in these social interactions have in play. I believe these aspects are beautifully displayed in this video. The children in this video have fashioned both functional and non-functional (in terms of musical actuality rather than being a "toy" representation), instruments to visually depict what they find important in a street band. Without even knowing the backstory of this musical experience, the nature of children and thei...
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Module 5 Blog MUH6515

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World Music Listening Blog Post #4 Topic:   D iscuss how the creating music strategies in Campbell (2004) relate to your chosen excerpt .  ------------------------------------ Title: "The South Wind" Artists: Joanie Madden Culture: Ireland Orchestration:  electric chordophones, piano, traditional chordophones, aerophone - tin whistle           Campbell (2004) relates several world music creating strategies that are immediately present in this tune. First and foremost is a sincerity and sensitivity to the emotional cultural context of this tune. Though the content in this particular recording is modernized, it is still much as it was while being passed through generations, often by call and response as Campbell (2004) mentions.  It also holds a traditional drone in some portions that accentuates the mournful  aura of the piece as well as utilizing an age old motive. The meaning is gently displayed in th...
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Module 4 Blog MUH6515

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World Music Listening Blog Post #4 Topic:   R eflect on the models of authenticity discussed in Koops (2010) and use your selected music example to share these reflections   ------------------------------------ Title:  "The Wall" Artists: Che Apalache Culture: Argentinian Bluegrass  Orchestration:  Voice, fiddle, mandolin and guitar           First of all, though this song is a political commentary, it does not necessarily reflect my personal political views. However, it was one of the first examples that came to mind while we were reading the different texts during this module. Many people question whether or not two different musics, such as the music of Argentina and the music of the Appalachian mountains, can be authentically  mixed in the first place because there are cultural discrepancies that may take away from either the meaning of the song or the meaning it is intended to carry to its au...
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Module 3 Blog MUH6515

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World Music Listening Blog Post #3 Topic:   P rovide an example of and discuss the role of context in musical structure .   ------------------------------------ Title: "Butterfly" Artists:  Nooran Sisters ,  Sunidhi Chauhan ,  Dev Negi ,  Aman Trikha Movie:  Jab Harry Met Sejal Released: 2017 Culture: India Orchestration: Voice, traditional Indian instruments and modern popular music instruments (chordophones, idiophones and voice).                      I love Bollywood! Wade (2013) states that music and movement are often intricately woven. This is definitely true in Bollywood film. I love the dynamic way  music, movement and drama are intimately and intricately woven  into the Indian film industry. Masala film and ancient Sanskrit drama, called natya is even a word derived from the root word nrit, meaning dance. These ancient and traditio...
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Module 2 Blog MUH6515

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World Music Listening  Blog Post #2 Topic:   What ways are classification s ystems u seful?  Use an example of time or instruments in your answer . ------------------------------------ Google translated the headline of this video as follows: “When visiting Gokayama, which is a World Heritage on January 29 , 2011 , it is said to be the oldest folk song in Japan that was taught at the Aikura Gaku village folklore hall."              This is a very old Japanese folksong performed  at the Aikura Gaku village folklore hall  in Gokayama, Japan by a Japanese musician using voice and the binzasara.   I feel classification systems are incredibly useful when approaching a  world music example like the one I have chosen for my blog this week. I was immediately drawn to the unique instrument, the binzasara, being used in this folk song and the joy of expression in the performer's face. I was also drawn ...
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Module 1 Blog MUH6515

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          World Music Listening   Blog Post #1 Topic:   How does the study of Ethnomusicology inform world music pedagogy? ------------------------------------           The piece I have chosen to share with you on my World Music Listening Blog is titled “ Leyndarmál,” which means “King and the Cross,”  and is performed by Ásgeir Trausti in Icelandic. The piece is a popular melodic folk music song from Reykjavík, Iceland. The instrumentation in this piece is a contemporary popular music mix of electric and acoustic guitars, drum set percussion and vocals.             I was immediately drawn to this piece when my son shared several years ago. I would have to say the first thing from our readings that came to mind was the idea Reimer (n.d.) presented of a synergistic compliment of contextualation and universalism where, although I do not speak Icelandic and cannot immediately unders...
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