Diverse Cultures and their Musics Fall 2021

 The time is here--our last Blog entries! We'll talk more about this next week, but I'd like to start out by thanking you for being such a wonderful class this term. Your curiosity in your blogs, your kindness to each other in the comments, and your honesty in the "quizzes" has been one of the Good Things that has helped me navigate this most curious couple of years.  This last blog is (obviously) a Big Blog, and the scope (but not the content) will be the same as the first Big Blog. In fact, let's just copy them here:  In terms of scope, think of this as a short term paper, but more informal, and with a fair amount of media embedded. As a guidepost, aim for about 1000 words, plus media. You'll need a handful of sources at the end (use full citations, rather than just web addresses), but you don't need to include footnotes or parenthetical references....While a bit of fan-girling is just fine, do remember that you're teaching other people about your ch...

Our last Exploratory Blog of the semester! Same ground rules apply here as in all of the other similar  blogs (Music of Indigenous Americans, Music of Africa, etc...), but it's been awhile (we've been off doing Music and Family and our first Big Blog), so let's reiterate the rules here: All the rules from the  Music of Indigenous Americans/Africa  blogs 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 Asia for your topics, and you may also go into the Northern, Arabic bit of Africa (but make sure to stay with Arabic music if you hea...