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After reading through the module materials and viewing the assigned videos, what are your thoughts and impressions on the music of Latin America? Provide specific examples to support your answer.
Questions to help focus your thinking (you don’t have to answer them all): What similarities do you see and how are these musical styles different? How does music reflect transculturation?
Attend (during this quarter) one live (online) music event (either non-western/world music or a concert you wouldn’t normally attend) and write a thorough performance report. Required – Describe the event (Date, time, place etc.) Describe the music thoroughly (instruments, lyrics, style, rhythm, etc.) What did you learn about culture and music from this experience? How has this experience impacted your understanding of music? Compare/contrast to music in this course. Minimum 1000 words, organized in paragraphs.
Interview a musician that performs non-Western music. Ask questions to learn about: instruments, traditions, cultures, events, musical characteristics, how it is learned, etc. Write a paper that explains the interview, what you learned about music and culture, how it reflects your own curiosity, and how this impacted your understanding of music. Include photo of yourself with the person you interview. 1000 words minimum.
Produce a 1000 word written paper, power point, or other substantial project that thoroughly describes traveling to another country for music. Projects should focus on music and also include details and cost of travel/itinerary, historical background, music festivals, performers, how music is learned, cultural significance, language, and performance practice, links to music examples. Include footnotes or endnotes and works cited page. This doesn’t have to be a country you have been to; it can be one you want to go to.
Compile a thorough list of websites that could be used to introduce and inform a reader of about ONE specific style/topic of non-western World Music, (Topic examples: Didgeridoo, Celtic Harp, Beijing Opera, etc) with annotations (paragraphs) describing each link. You should include at least 10 websites, number each entry and include at least 6 sentences describing each web resource. Single space each entry, double space between entries. And for each annotation include:
In our Lessons, there is a list of German musicians and bands from the past to today. Listen to a variety of them and tell us which songs you liked, which you did not, and why. Finally, do your own exploring of German music online. If there is a German song or musician that you discover and really like, share it with our class. Include full references with Author, Title, Date, and Links to the songs, German/English lyrics, and more. Point out to us and discuss German language in at least one of the songs. Tell us what you like or find interesting, and why. Let us know if you have any questions about these lyrics.
Here is an outline of the four requirements to keep in mind for your first post: