I enjoyed reading your summary of the presentation and I get better understanding of the topic. I also would of chosen those songs because it is played a lot during Christmas and it puts you in the Christmas spirit.
The connection between Music and Trends and the songs were trendy and allowed people to get to know them better. The first song was BTS which is a korean music group and they got big because of trends and people […]
1). Compare the controversy around Hendrix’s performance and Fergie’s performance. What was similar or different to how people reacted immediately afterward?
The controversy around Fergie’s performance was she w […]
I also did a Kendrick Lamar song and it had a similar message about police brutality and the mistreatment of African Americans. I didn’t know about that Pharrell Williams was singing the chorus.
The song I chose was the Blacker the Berry by Kendrick Lamar. This song was associated with the black lives matter movement. The purpose of the song was to expose the government on how they treat African […]
The role music has on the Sema ceremony is it helps them worship while the performers are dancing. In the video, I saw the music guiding the way the dancers move and the dancers depending on the music. The music […]
I liked how you showed the meaning of when the Mevlevi people dance they have their palms up. Also about the tradition of song and dance in the Mevlevi music.
I agree with your point that the location of sacred music could be anywhere but it needs a purpose of being there. Also about the message is usually connected to religion
1). Music can be sacred by the way people view it. It has to be written for God or have the purpose of honoring God. Usually sacred songs are played at churches, when a person wants alone time with God or they are […]
My ethnicity is Jamaican and the genre that is associated with it is dancehall music. Similar to reggae music, the instruments that are involved in dancehall music are the drums, bass guitar, drum machine, […]
I liked how you predicted the instruments that the performers were dancing to. I agreed with you that drums will be one of the main instruments due to how fast they were jerking there heads during the performance.
1). I hear the beat by the use of the drums. Because there is alway a drum that is keeping the beat so everyone is on time. I hear the tempo by the drums on how fast they are playing and the speed the dancers were […]
I agree that the Jazz Club was the most comfortable because it was uplifting and positive. Everyone looked like they were enjoying themselves even the musicians due to them smiling and the solos.
The type of performance I would be most comfortable in is the Jazz club. I would be comfortable in this audience because the musicians look like they were having fun. There were lots of solos in the jazz […]
I enjoyed that you included the song that was playing in the background because I didn’t know what song it was. I thought that the man could have got set up and the music from the car could be foreshadowing that […]
In the opening scene of “Get Out”, we can see a guy on the phone walking towards the camera. It looks like he was in the suburbs because of all the houses around. It was really dark and he looked like he was on […]
I like how your topic was not common and I found it interesting that autotune was created so recently. Another song that I thought about while reading this was Chance the Rapper “Smoke Break”. He also uses […]
The instrument that I have chosen is the electronic organ. This organ was created in the 1930s by Laurens Hammond. One of the most well known organ, used by many jazz musicians and gospel musicians, is the […]
I agree with the last part where you stated that it sounded like a church song. With having all those different parts it is like a choir and churches also uses this type of style in singing. It gives you a […]
In Kyrie (monophonic) and Kyrie from the Pope Marcellus Mass, the musical elements that I heard were texture, form and melody. Texture is how different musical elements connect.The specific texture that I heard […]
