Caribbean Music ( Class 5,6,7)

Caribbean Music ( class 5,6,7) - What is meant by Caribbean Music in a new mode? What emphasis, in this chapter, seems to justify a departure from traditional presentations of music and culture of the Caribbean?

Though Caribbean musical approaches have historically taken a diverse array of folk forms relating to the tribal and spiritual traditions of the inhabitants of various islands, today the commercial manifestation of Caribbean music which has been exported to the American and European mainlands is dominant in our understanding of the term. The expansion of this form over more traditional modes though may be emphasized by the effectiveness with which commercialization has extended representative genres such as Reggae, Calypso and Soca.

(2) Jazz Music ( 8,9,10)- the blues made its way into many kinds of music. Eric Clapton, the Beatles and Elvis Presley are just a few of the people who have acknowledged its importance. Using the model of the blues, find a popular song and discuss how its design reflects the blues influence.

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night" is a song with deep roots in American blues iconography. Its recording on the live Nirvana record MTV Unplugged in New York is among the most soulful and emotionally rending variations of a track that has been recorded by Leadbelly, the Louvin Brothers and innumerable others coming from the country blues tradition. Interestingly, Kurt Cobain's reading remains extremely loyal to takes on the trade from many decades prior, but its contextualization as something of a swan song before the singer/songwriter's suicide in 1994 helps to underscore its currency and intensity. Cobain takes a blues turn on the song, but the cord-shredding and mournful vocal is also distinctly urgent and appropriate in the Nirvana songbook.

(3) Korean Music (11,12,13)- Listen to the piece in this chapter. Analyze the musical function of the lead singer, and the musical relationship between the lead singing and the chorus.

In the form played here, the lead vocalist functions as a cantor to a congregant. The chorus plays the part of respondent in a musical dialogue that bears certain religious inherencies in its give and take. In some ways, this approach has a constancy with a variety of other musical traditions, including African chanting and the function of the chorus in the context of Greek plays.

(4) Latin Music (15,16,17,18)- Write a short research essay on the Latin American composer of your choice. Be sure to include the following;

* Basic biographical data

* a work representative of that composer's style, with specific reference to what can be heard in the score

* That composer's significance both in Latin America and internationally.

One of the most compelling figures in Latin American music is the irrepressible Carlos Santana. From his roots as a psychedelic scenemaker in the 1960s to his rebirth as a pop music crossover in the late 1990s, Carlos Santana has long been central to the infusion of Latin sounds into mainstream music. The Mexican-born Santana began his career in Southern California, assembling percussively-based groups from his neighborhood and working his way up to the massing scene in Northern California. By the time he was leading a band playing under the name Santana, he was in San Francisco on culturally important stages at the Fillmore, the Winterland and Cow Palace. He would become the first Latin American music icon of the counterculture, bringing the tones of Tejano and Salsa to both artistic and commercial music-making communities.

(5) Native American Music (19,20,21)- After viewing the segment from the Pow-wow video "Into the circle: An introduction to Native American Pow-wow," write a short essay summarizing the historical information given on the beginings of Pow-wows in Oklahoma.