Week 3

There were many differences that I noticed in both of these blogs particularly the change in performance and camara setting. In the second video it was all males and in the other one it was co-ed. This type of setting is real cultural because they do not let woman perform with men in certain types of dance I assume. Or traditionally it has always been done by males so in order to follow tradition they keep the same customs. From what we read in the course reader I take it that the one that is with all males is Bali and the first one was Javalan because it was slower. In the second video there are many more music players that in the first video. They also seem to be all wearing white which may stand for a form of renewal or cleansening I am guessing. The second one seems to be extremely more up beat. Both of the videos howevever, the instrumentalists are sitting on the floor. For the first one however, there are females dancing to the slow music which seems to be ironic because they are dancing really slow when I feel as if coming from a Latin American background they should be dancing to the more up beat sound. There also seems to have a focus in the first one because the female dancers are the center of attention. Where as in the second one when there are only males it seems as if it is just some random person video taping and is doing it from the side and is not really trying to focus on one certain thing.

Lissett

I have never really played an instrument except in sixth grade but I do not think that counts. I played the clarinet in sixth grade and I remember playing the titanic song and being extremely excited about it : ) . Other than my sixth grade experience, I have never really had any other musical experiences except for going to concerts and actually listening to music. I am an organization called L.A.T.I.N.A.S. (Ladies Actively Taking Initiative through Networking, Academics and Social justice) and some of the girls in that organization are in LASA which put on a dance troop which is extremely good. I listen to many types of music from bay area to mariachi and I hardly ever buy cd's I download from the internet : ) . I do sing alot even though I am a horrible singer. I sing in the car, shower, going to class, in bruinwalk, at the club, basically everywhere because I love music. My favorite thing to do is sing along with mariachi because I remember my parents doing that since I was young. Unlike myself, my father has a real strong and nice voice and he would always sing along with mariachi.
Other than the fact that this class is a GE, I wanted to take this class because I wanted to become familiar with music around the world. I have noticed that I limit myself to Latin American music and hip hop. I want to be able to hear a broader range of music and actually know the background about the music. I would actually want to learn more about Latin American music however, I use to live in Guatemala and I remember my family use to always play marimba in parties so that is type of music that I would would be interested in learning this quarter.

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