Diverse Cultures and their Musics Fall 2021

 Time for another Exploratory Blog! This time, we're going to Africa. A few quick parameters for  this week's blog topics: All the rules from the Music of Indigenous Americans blog are still in play--three separate lines of inquiry, two of which must be explicitly about a musical topic; each item needs to include a  hefty  paragraph (at the very least) of description/explanation; you need to let me know where you got your information from Please remember that your entire blog needs to be in your own words (unless you have a really specific quote that you just have to share). Paraphrase your sources, and then be sure to cite them. Scope: You may go anywhere in Africa for your topics as long as you are  South of the Sahara Desert.  If you're just dying to dive into, say, Morocco or Egypt, don't worry--we'll consider those places when we get to Arabic music in a few weeks. More Scope: Try to go beyond what we talk about in class. If you're just dying to explo...

Unlike the first blog you wrote, most of our blog posts this semester are going to involve you digging further into the music-cultures that we study. Here's how these blogs are going to work: Your job is to think of three things that you'd like to know more about concerning that music-culture---perhaps you want to know more about one of the instruments, or a different instrument, or you'd like to delve further into some of the dances, or into a particular musical genre, or there's a certain performer that you've liked and you'd like to know more about that performer, or find another performer in that same vein. Perhaps you just have a question that you'd like to explore. Or perhaps you have prior knowledge of the music-culture, and you'd like to share it with the class. Roam the web and find out more about those three things, and then post what you find on your blog. As with all of your blogs, you'll want to post your findings in such a way that we ...