Music and Rituals
As we been work our way through the music of both Native American and Andean cultures, we are observing music created for various rituals . Weddings, funerals, religious ceremonies, holidays, and various other gatherings almost always include specific kinds of musics. This, of course, is hardly surprising to most of us--we've been to weddings and funerals and other gatherings ourselves, and those rituals have almost always included specific music. For this blog, you're going to explore this relationship between ritual and music. You can talk about your own experiences or the ways that music is used in rituals in other cultures, or a combination. Here are your guidelines: Your blog should be at least 400 words long. Your blog should include a minimum of two media selections--videos, pictures, sound files, links, etc. More is better. Please embed your videos, rather than just link to them. At least one of these selections must be music that we can hear. Please don't just re...