Diverse Cultures and their Musics Fall 2020

 A number of our blog posts this semester are going to fall under the heading of "Cool Stuff!" For all of these blog posts, you're going to research further into the music-cultures that we're studying. 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. Or perhaps you just have a question that you'd like to explore. Roam the web and find out more about those three things, and then post what you find here. As with all of your blogs, you'll want to post your findings in such a way that we can explore them fully: videos are great, as are links to whole websites. Pictures can ...

 Our first blog posts are going to have several purposes: 1. To give you the opportunity to use some of our new musical vocabulary, 2. To allow you to start to become comfortable talking about music, 3. To prompt you to figure out how to use certain tech aspects of Blogger, and 4. To let us get to know something  about each other's musical experiences and preferences. And, if we're lucky, you'll all get to learn about a music that you didn't already know about but find yourself enjoying! Here's your blog topic. I want you to write about the types of music you like (or not) and specific pieces or artists that you find especially important. Specifically, I want you to tell us three things: Share with us an example of music that really means something to you personally. It can be attached to a specific event or person, from your present or from your past, or just something that you find yourself returning to over and over for whatever reasons.  Share with us an example...

Welcome to Diverse Cultures and their Musics! I'm glad that you're here--both in the class and on my blog, which you'll be visiting weekly during the semester. Our class blogs will be places to explore, teach, and learn--they're some of the most fun parts of the class. Blogs serve a few different purposes. They're primarily written journals, so you'll want to use your best writing skills (avoid texting lingo unless it serves a specific purpose). Unlike pencil-and-paper journals, though, they also allow you to share a variety of media. You'll be including pictures and videos and sound files on your own blogs throughout the semester, and you'll need to make sure they all upload and are easy for your readers to access. Finally, blogs do all of these things in a public forum, which will allow you to learn from each other, because learning just from me gets really old really quickly. Because they're public, though, you need to be sure that you conduct you...