Our playlist

 

   It is crazy to think that a thing such as music can connect and bring people together the way music does through out the whole world. From all the different places we went and experienced and learned through out this class but we really only are looking at the tip of the iceberg and we've barley even started to look at all of the other different cultures and types of music, although majority of them started or have the same roots but people and different cultures have taken them and made them into there own which has given us so many different genres and types of music to be able to listen to. So within this blog I will introduce four more different types of cultures and what there music has to offer.

                        

This is the first culture that I would like to add that we didn't get a chance to go over in class but it is a song called koinobri which is a well know traditional children's folk song, and compare to the istse bitse spider. This gives us a peak in to Japanese culture because it shows what kids are listening to and it shows that every culture has one if not multiple things in common with one another and that everyone is more alike then we think. But they have different instruments but they all root from the same place so in Japanese culture they use instruments such as, shamisen which would be like a guitar, Ryutek would be like a flute, sho would be like the harmonica, the shakuhachi would be like a recorder, the taiko would be like a drum. with all the these instruments they create different songs and melodies, but that is just a glimpse into Japanese culture. 

This one is called Huanca it reminds me a lot of our andes mountain unit but with a little bit of a twist because it goes into it song that comes from Peruvian culture. when watching this video it really reminded me and about the unit we did on the andes music from everything about the way it looks and how its outside and in the mountains with the clouds and fog everywhere, and the dress he's wearing with the bright colors and hat and the feather and the outfit that doesn't match and stands out. This songs ties down deep into the culture and local traditions but it also shows and hold meaning from the ancestors such the melody and dance that they pass down through generations to be remembered. This song is traditionally played at many different kind of festivals and religious events. Because this songs shows and brings the community together. 

For this next song I would like to add next is my more modern song from this playlist, it is a little girl who is participating in a yodeling contest and teaches everyone to yodel. This idea I had to choose a clip like this come from Switzerlands culture and how I thought it would be more interesting to a modern version of yodeling then a traditional version of it. Yodeling originates from Switzerland's culture it was first started in as a way to communicate across the mountain tops and then they would also use it to call animal and herd them so they could keep track and move them along the mountain. however yodeling now a days is not longer really used in that way it is more used at festivals and get togethers, and is also used to get people to go to tourism events but also to pass down there culture and what it means from each different turn and path that has taken each different generation through. 

The last one my new playlist is traditional Irish music I have always thought that it is really cool especially in elementary school when my friends would teach me the dance that went along with it because majority of them had and Irish heritage. So this next song includes instruments like the fiddle/flute, the guitar, the harp, the violin, and what looks to be a hand held drum. Irish music is traditionally played in Pubs, which are like bars and then house and family gathers to celebrate and pass down the culture through out generation. 

These are the four songs that I would like to add to the playlist and the cultures that I would've liked to explore more because I think that a lot of them are really interesting and how all of them musics blend together have the same instruments just different versions and can also be used in different ways. But it really just shows that music connects us all in different ways even when if you don't even realize.