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Uri Kim commented on the post, Participation Post for Music and Ethnicity | Week of 4/1-4/8, on the groupblog
Exploring Music Spring 2020 3 hours, 1 minute agoI liked how you included that Jazz music has more of an energetic feel to it compared to the blues. For #2 though, it seems that your view is a bit contradictory, as you say, “I don’t think I would choose to not ” […]
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Sabrina Karim wrote a new post, Blog Post 6, on the site Intro to Women's Studies 3 hours, 10 minutes ago
I interviewed my paternal grandmother who in the 1970’s was living in Bangladesh. During this time period, there was a war going on between Bangladesh, which was then called East Pakistan, and Pakistan, which was […]
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Katherine Pradt wrote a new post, Online for April: Workshops, on the site Graduate Center Library Blog 3 hours, 31 minutes ago
The world has become very different in the last few weeks. It promises to be different for quite a while to come. But teaching and writing continues, and the library is still doing business–lots of business. In […]
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Sabrina Karim wrote a new post, Blog Post 5, on the site Intro to Women's Studies 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
I’ve been doing okay during this time, I work as a teller as Chase and since banks were considered essential I was still working for the most part up until recently where the branches in my district closed for […]
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Paulina Metel commented on the post, Participation Post for Music and Ethnicity | Week of 4/1-4/8, on the groupblog
Exploring Music Spring 2020 3 hours, 35 minutes agoI agree with your ideas on how jazz and the blues are similar. You added a good point about how the blues were more “widespread” compared to Jazz since so many years have gone by and the blues are still in style!
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Paulina Metel commented on the post, Participation Post for Music and Ethnicity | Week of 4/1-4/8, on the groupblog
Exploring Music Spring 2020 3 hours, 37 minutes ago1) Jazz and the blues are similar in a few ways. Both jazz and blues music originated in the South areas. These music genres were becoming popular at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century. African […]
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Uri Kim commented on the post, Blog 6, Kotkes, on the groupblog
Exploring Music Spring 2020 3 hours, 46 minutes agoI didn’t know that for Jewish people every Saturday is a day of rest, so that was an interesting fact I learned today. Also, Klezmer sounds kind of like classical music with the flutes in harmony with the other […]
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Sophia Kotkes edited the blog post Blog 6, Kotkes in the group
Exploring Music Spring 2020: 5 hours, 27 minutes agoThe genre of music I chose was Klezmer music. Klezmer music originated from the kabbalists of Israel in the 16th or 17th century. The Klezmer musical genre was created by Jews in a village in Czarist Russia […]
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