Diverse Cultures and their Musics Fall 2023

The time is here--our last Blog entries!  This last blog is (obviously) a Big Blog, and the scope (but not the content) will be the same as the first Big Blog. In fact, let's just copy them here:  A minimum of 1000 words At least four music selections we can hear, embedded into the body of your blog At least two images (pictures), also embedded into the blog. At least four sources,  not including Wikipedia , that need to be cited in a bibliography at the end of your blog. MLA, APA, or Chicago style may be used for those bibliography citations.  If you use ChatGPT to help you generate ideas or other aspects of your blog, please tell me how you used ChatGPT as a part of your citations at the end of the blog. Once you have decided on your topic, please leave a comment on this blog letting us know what your topic will be. That way you can all see each others topics so that, when it comes time to read four of your classmates' blogs, you can choose topics you find interest...

This will be our final "Music &" blog: "Music & Family, " but it's going to be a bit different from the last few, in that it's going to be entirely personal. Most of us have our first musical experiences with our families, and you can often give credit for some of your personal musical taste to those experiences--whether you share those opinions or rebel against them. Too, one of the Big Points of this class is to explore how music and culture are interrelated, and cultures are built out of families. So for this blog, you're going to find out more about how someone in your family relates to music. Specifically, I want you to pick someone that's at least one generation older than you and interview them about their relationship with music. You might talk with them about the music of their childhood, or as teenagers, or what they listen to today, or all three. We talked about potential questions in class and I posted them to Canvas. If possible,...