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RE: Assignment #3: Ethnomusicology & Neurology

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montille25 · Veteran Member

What type of influence's does Japan have on other countries?

montille25 · Veteran Member

kelsayexo wrote:

1) I chose japanese because i LOVE anything about japan.

- More than 4,000 little islands surround the three other large islands.
-world's longest railroad tunnel at 54 kilometers
-Aggressive expansion across the Pacific led to war with the U.S. in 1941.
-Defeat ended Japan's dream of ruling Asia, and the U.S. occupation imposed a parliamentary constitution, free labor unions, and stringent land reform.
-Among the top three exporters of manufactured goods, the nation has the second largest economy after that of the U.S.
-Current problems include unemployment—the highest since the end of World War II—and low economic growth.
-Shoukichi Kina's reggae-garage-surf-boogie made him an Okinawan revolutionary folk hero.
-Fire and water collide in Daisetsuzan, where two massive volcanoes pin the national park at the center of Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido.
-Japan is an economic powerhouse, its technological marvels spanning the globe.
-Spilling more than 1,800 miles along the Asian mainland, from Siberia almost to Taiwan, the long string of islands that calls itself Japan is kaleidoscopic in the many faces it presents to the world.

What type of influence's does Japan have on other countries?

JacQuieee · Member

The Country I chose is Bollywood becuase I would like to know more about its music and culture.

1.) The name "Bollywood" is an amalgamation of Bombay, the former name of the city of Mumbai, and Hollywood—it's the Los Angeles of India.

2.) It's considered to be the largest in the world in terms of number of films produced

3.) Indian-film music is called filmi.

4.) What exactly is filmi? Its movie soundtrack songs.

5.) A few of the biggest golden-era Bollywood names include singing sisters Asha and Lata (Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar). Mohd. (Mohammed) Rafi and Kishore Kumar.

6.) Many movie-goers see the same films over and over again to catch their favorite songs.

7.) You can express what the music means, through the movements of the body.

8.) Bollywood dancing is a commercial name for modern Indian dancing. It's combine of classical Indian dance (which is the base), folk dancing such as Bhangra and sometimes has a Latin or Arabic influence.

9.) Songs from Bollywood movies are generally pre-recorded by professional playback singers, with the actors lip singing the words to the song on-screen, often while dancing

10.) Bollywood producers have been releasing the film's soundtrack, as tapes or CDs, before the movie comes out hoping that the music will bring audiences into the movie cinema later.
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Venassa · Member

Im not really Familiar with polish music but here are some facts what i learn about poland. biggrin

10 things about Polish’s music
·         Poland has always been a very open country to new music genres and even before the fall of the communism, music styles like rock, metal, jazz, electronic, and New Wave were well-known. ·         One genre of music in Poland is called poezja śpiewana which is poetry sung as a song.
·         Poland is one of the few countries in Europe where rock and hip hop dominate over pop music,
·         Polish music can be traced as far back as the 13th century
·         This is the polish National Anthem, Jeszcze Polska nie zginela
·         performance of Galatea was the first Italian opera produced outside Italy
·         Polish folk music was collected in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, as part of a wave of Polish national revival.
·         Polish dance music, especially the mazurka and polonaise, were popularized by Frederick Chopin, and they soon spread across Europe and elsewhere
·         Here are some important opera composers were Karol Kurpiński and Stanisław Moniuszko.
·         Since 1989, the Polish scene has exploded with new talents and a more diverse style.

hope u learned some facts ! cuz i did !

LEENA23 · Member

PORTUGAL
1) Portuguese music was influenced by Acient Romes musical tradition.
2) Fado usually deals with sadness and loneliness.
3) Pimba is the Portuguese version of the Euro Schlager
4) Fado is the oldest music of Portugal.
5) Fado appeared after 1840 in Lisbon
6) Mainstream Fado performances during the 20th century included only a singer,a Portuguese guitar player, and a classical guitar player.
7) The popular belife, Fado is a form of music characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics.
8) The music comes from a Portuguese word Saudade which means to miss or to long for someone.
9) Guitarists Artur Paredes and his son Carlos Paredes are considered the pioneers and masters of this musical genre.
10) The University of Coimbra's students' union has a Fado section, teaching this genre.

LEENA23 · Member

ericaaaa3 wrote:

The country I choose to research about is Greece.
1) One of the greasest rembetika singers was Rita Abatzi who was a part of a mass exodus of about two million people who emigrated to Greece.
2) British and American superstars are generally outnumbered by Greek names on the top of the country's pop charts
3) George Dalaras has been a superstar in Greece for nearly forty years.
4) He has more than sixty solo albums and almost as many collaboration with famed colleagues from all over the world like Sting, Paco de Lucia, Al di Meola, and Ian Anderson.
5) Greece music is linked to bouzoukis and ouzo-soaked
6) Musicologists have claimed links between the music of the past centuries to that of ancient Greece.
7) Greece music reaches out to Western Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, and western Asia
8) Most listeners prefer in Greece's older styles from the 1920s than the more modern music
9) Greek music of the 20th and 21st century has by and large resisted European homogenization
10) Various ethnic minorities like the Roma (Gypsies), Vlachs and Albanians have added their own distinct traditions to the Greek mix.

What are three famous Greece singers?

montille25 · Veteran Member

Nay wrote:

The Country I Picked Was Jamaica
10 Things I’ve learned about their music and culture that I didn’t know.
1.Jamaica is home to many genres of music such as such as mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub music, dancehall, reggae fusion and related styles.
2.Jamaica has a population of less than 3 million people.
3.Ska originated in the late 1950’s in Jamaica, Ska has the aspect Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.
4.Jamaica has done more to influence world music that any other country its size.
5.Jamaica's main two political groups—Jamaica Labor Party and the People’s National Party.
6.Christopher Columbus landed in Jamaica in 1494.
7.Jamaica is a country that's slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut.
8.Bob Marley spread Jamaican music throughout the world in the 1970s,
9.Dancehall is essentially speechifying with musical accompaniment, including a basic drum beat
10.Reggae fusion emerged as a popular subgenre in the late 1990s; it is closely related to ragga music. It originated in Jamaica, North America and Europe

WHAT TYPE'S OF FOOD'S DOES THE JAMAICANS EAT?

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montille25 · Veteran Member

10 things you learned about neurology, music and culture

The Neanderthals didn’t really have a language, they use musical sounds to communicate with each other.
Recreating the mother’s heart beat can help the baby go to sleep faster, because the fetus hears the mother’s heartbeat 26 million times before the baby is born.
When someone is one a respirator it is really uncomfortable, that why some hospital’s use music therapy to relax the patients.
Music therapy can be use to help people with short-term memory loss.
Birds use music as a way to communicate with each other, each species of birds have their own type of music, and the song of a blue jay isn’t going to work for a mockingbird.
There’s a lot of math in music in that the relationship between vibrations can be phrased mathematically.
There’s a lot of physics in music, because music can be brake down into math
Humans are wired for music, because music is like speech in some way.
Female bird brains are different from male bird brains, because female brains are made to judge different type of song and to choose the one they like to mate with.
Bird songs and music songs are the same but, the birds use it to communicate and to find a mate

R_Santos · Member

Part A

1.Music was tightly controlled commodity and was used as a tool for the ideological shaping of the population.
2.Ukrainians have fostered a peculiar style of singing which they call "bilyj holos."
3. Bilyj holos is a type of singing primarily exploits the chest register and is akin to controlled screaming.
4. In Ukraine there existed a class of professional musician who sang to their own accompaniment. These professional musicians were often known as kobzari or lirnyky.
5. In recent times (post 1980's) there is a movement toward authentic ensemble singing particularly in eastern Ukraine with the etablishment of various ensembles and festivals there focusing on this stule of music.
6. Soviet government strongly discouraged the population away from religious music and encouraged "Proletarian" forms of musical performance.
7. The first such ensemble in Ukraine was the Okhmatynsky village folk choir organized by Dr M. Demutsky in 1889.
8. Ethnographic ensembles became popular in the 20th century. These were often choirs with orchestral accompaniment and sometimes a group of dancers.
9. The multipart singing used in Central Ukraine was thought to have been unique at the turn of the 19th century.
10. Ukrainians have a wealth of folk instruments and a well developed tradition of instrumental music.

Part B
1. In some places people are trying to use music to help cure sick people. One woman who was on a respirator felt more comfortable while she had someone playing the flute for her.
2. Some people believe that Neanderthals used musical phrases to communicate with each other rather than a language.
3. All music comes from vibrations.
4. It is believed that music can reach and be heard by “silenced brains” or brains that suffer from injuries.
5. Doctors use the gato box to recreate babies heart sounds.
6. Our preference to music is not given at birth, but based on our experiences in early life.
7. Music can be an effective way to temporarily treat epilepsy.
8. Music therapy has been practiced for decades as a way to treat neurological conditions from Parkinson's to Alzheimers to anxiety and depression
9. Bird songs are actually music, and are arranged just like a song or tune.
10. Your brain recognizes things even if you can’t recognize it yourself.

reinahearts · Member

The country I chose to research was the Dominican Republic.
- The most popular type of music is meringue.
- They use swift beats from guira, maraca percussion sections, and drums such as a tambour.
- The rhythm dominates the music.
- Dominican in origin has also been linked to the music of Haiti.
- Traditional, acoustic meringue is best-represented by the earliest recorded musicians, like Angel Vitoria and Francisco Ulloa.
- It is the second largest Caribbean nation after Cuba.
- The territory of the Dominican Republic was reached by Christopher Columbus in 1492.
- The Caribbean’s largest tourist destination.
- The Dominican Republic was the third country in Latin America to which reggae ton was introduced
- Rafael Trujillo, who seized the presidency of the Dominican Republic in 1930, helped merengue to become a national symbol of the island up until his assassination in 1961.
10 things I didn’t know
Was how important their music is to them?
Also I didn’t know the different instruments were used
I didn’t know how closed Hispanic music was closed to our music
I also loved how it bought people together
I enjoyed how close family were and also how wonderful it was to learn
I liked the fact that people can express their self through music
I like the different types of music they do
And how their so many opposites they have
I didn’t know how they sing and it describe their lives
I enjoyed the history their music goes
Question for students what types of music move you?

reinahearts · Member

they eat everythig mostly chicken and collargreens hehe biggrin

mre · Senior Member

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