Diverse Cultures and their Musics Fall 2020

 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 semester.  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 chosen to...

 Final Cool Stuff Blog of the semester! Same ground rules apply here as in all the Cool Stuff blogs: 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. And, obviously, you can choose from any where in the Arabic and/or Indian world. Here is my (just one line of inquiry) contribution. As we've gone through the world of Arabic music, you've heard me make reference a couple of times to Tariq Jundi. He's the oud player whose music we listened to in class, and he's truly a force of nature in the music scene of Jordan. He's also a great teacher--the Arabic music theory lesson I had with him was just a little over an hour long, but it was priceless in terms of my understanding of Arabic music. I do try to keep up with what he's doing over time, and not too long ago I found this wo...