Musical groups

Differentiating Musical Exoticism Musical exoticism comes from the influence of non-European elements, often imitating styles from other cultures as a way to differ from the customs of the audience and creators. The motives for exoticism lie on a spectrum, ranging from pure exoticism to transcultural composing. Pure exoticism includes “othering” a subject, labeling them as different from one’s own group (Lecture 5/16). On the other hand, transcultural composing uses both non-western and western…

from the textbook along with listening to the two songs, I believe the aspects of Keita that defines his identity the most are his ethnic background, global musical exposure, and his unique individual voice. Early on in Keita’s career, it was his ethnic Mali background along with his European influence that played a major role in his musical identity. In his song “Africa”, he uses traditional African instruments including “the talking drum, kora (large harp-lute), and djembe (goblet-shaped hand…

Before watching this video when I think of musical theatre I would think of opera or Disney musical. The first thing that come to my mind would be many performers are acting and singing to converse their messages to the audiences. I would related to Bollywood to musical theatre where the performers singing and dancing in a form of acting out their storyline. The stories are usually about some kind of tragic and romance plot where the two performers would fall in lover and sometime might end…

(Gardner-Neblett, N., & Gallagher, K. C., 2013) Learning process that involve musical activities develop children awareness on sounds that may help them later on with phonological awareness that relates to sounds found in speech (Activities to develop speech and language skills, 2015). 2. Music enhances physical development. Students…

Jerome Robbins' suggested the idea of developing a musical based off of the story of Romeo and Juliet to Leonard Bernstein in January of 1949 (originally proposed title: East Side Story, set in the less privileged areas of New York at the concurrence of Easter-Passover celebrations). In August of 1955, a gathering with Arthur Laurents took place where another idea emerged -- two teen-age mobs as the conflicting groups, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled…

people who came to listen to the western music concert are feeling the music in different ways. Audience don’t need the lyrics, but enjoy the sound, keep the traditions of the original musical instrument a very like absolute music. Coming back to performance of House Band who was using special electric musical effects, such as distortion, phases, etc. In case of listening the pop or R&B music the audience can show their emotions by dancing, screaming or singing the song aloud with the singer.…

is common for most young people, I have mostly acquired my musical knowledge through formal means, in a "school" setting. I joined a choir in fifth grade in which our choir director taught us solfege, sight reading, and other musical skills. Since I started learning these when I was younger, I was able to retain them slowly and gradually until I became fairly good at using them in high school. Teaching these at a steady pace and in a group setting was beneficial because no one felt like they…

American folk music includes many musical genres such as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music and roots music. Many traditional songs have been passed on for generations in the same family or folklore group. Most of the folk music has been sung by the same family or civil society, which can be traced back to the original places, such as the UK, Europe, and Africa. Most of the folk music from England and Scotland is introduced to the United States. While American…

A cold morning of March 23, 2017, I was part of a group of students from social work of St. Augustine College, attending a theater performance. We were there among students and professors from other Universities. The purpose of this trip, was to observe the performance of a group of young men incarcerated at the Illinois Youth Center-Chicago. The performance’s name was “Nah, It Ain’t Easy.” First, getting there wasn’t difficult due to I got a ride. I had to show my valid state-issued photo ID.…

major classical musical works written for the instrument happened during its constant refinement development in Europe; allowing the saxophone to have more of a foothold in the originally American music idiom of jazz. However, the saxophone has carved out its place in the aspects of the writing of new music, specifically in the aspects of the…