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Big Blog 2 Christian Rock

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  When I was young and in elementary school I went to a Christian private school in Durham, NC where my parents went to church. At that time my parents were starting to get more involved in the church and we went to church every week. It was at this time that I started to listen to Christian rock music (also called Contemporary Christian Music). My parents listened to it all the time in their car. They really did not listen to anything else at that time. They mainly listened to a station called K-Love. I don’t listen to Christian rock anymore but I still thought this was something that was interesting to look into. Christian rock history began in the 1960s. I was not aware of this since my parents only started listening to it in the 2010s. The beginning of Christian rock seems to go back to a man named Larry Norman. He had a song that came out in 1969 called “Upon this Rock” that was one of the first Christian rock songs ever released. Mr. Norman looked like a hippie from the 196...
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The music of asian cultures (Thailand)

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 For the first Asian culture I am going to chose is Thailand, i found a piece of their traditional music on YouTube but they incorporate some other cultures into this piece if you check the description The instrument being played down below is called the Seung and it is a traditional instrument of Thailand and it kind of is like a guitar in how it is played and how it looks. To play it you need metal rings on all your finger except for the one doing the cords and your thumbs, here is the video of them playing. Most of Thailand's music is string dominate because they like the sound of it and its deep within their culture and its been that way for a long time, the other instrument i found in this culture is called the Khim and its my favorite from here it is a mix of a drum and string instrument, the player sits down and hits the strings with two sticks and it plays notes here is a quick video of someone playing the song.
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soul music

Soul Music First what is soul music? Soul music is African American created and is a genre of music. The music was kind of a combination of gospel, jazz and rhythm and blues. Soul music began in African American culture as a way to describe the “black experience” back in the late 1950 and into the 1960s.   Soul music normally had the performer try and interact with the people listening to the music with things like clapping and extemporaneous body movements (Wikipedia 2011). Soul music is meant to make the listener feel their emotions and to think about the words that are being sung. I choose Soul music for my blog. I have never really listened to soul music much but I thought it might be interesting to find out more about it. I know that my parents and grandparents listened to soul music a lot when they were growing up. One thing I did not know was that Soul music came from religious music but I can see some things that are similar when listening to the early days of S...
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interviewing my mom

      I came home this weekend and wanted to ask my mom some questions about what she likes in music and how she heard it and just wanted to have a genuine heart to heart with my mom about the rhythm that keeps her heart going and this is what happened. I knew coming into this she liked hip hop and rnb but that's also what she grew up listening to and still does to this day. She told me when she was growing up her dad had her listen to Motown and other 60's groups and performers so she was always into rnb and hip hop which i found very cool that she liked most of the Motown artists. When this happened i asked her if this has changed at all with age what she listens to and if she is willing to listen to other genres and she told me yes! she loves the new songs of today because of the lyrics and the meaning behind them. She told me she loves a song that tells a story. When she grew up she had to use record players and cassette tapes which i have never used bu...
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sub Saharan Africa and the music and culture

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      One instrument you see in see cartoons and movies is the panpipe, this is a pipe that is made out of reeds and are hollowed out to make a sound when you play they and is a aerophore. These instruments are very unique in the way that one they can have different tones and different weights and still play the same just by having the reeds longer and shorter. The other way this instrument stands out to me and other people is that it is a very woody sounding instrument that has a windy sound. I learned all of this in my class with doctor Kelly Vaneman.  NOTE THIS VIDEO IS JUST WHAT THE PAN PIPES SOUND LIKE AND A BIT OF INFORMATION THATS COOL The Sub Saharan people have elders and just people who are very wise in general who tell younger generations about their peoples past and they are called griots. These Griots do not discriminate with gender like many other countries and cultures they just have people who are wise enough and who know the knowledge....
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Native Americans with music

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 Water drum? The native Americans had a drum was the water drum and it worked by having a deer hide/skin over the top of a clay pot or hollowed log and with it they can play the drum with just that but to change the pitch and tone of the drum they would add water or take water out. I like how they play the drum in the video below because the people playing it before they even play it, I can’t tell what they put on the drum it may have been water or dirt or even but they rubbed it on the head of the drum, then they all played the one drum. "Cherokee" September 18, 2021 https://naiscurationproject.weebly.com/cherokee.html “Cherokee Music.” Encyclopedia of Appalachia. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2014. Native American flute The native American people had many different instruments and the flutes they made where amazing. They made them out of straight up clay, and wood cane. These flutes where not easy to make they somehow took clay and that wood cane and made a playable instrument by...
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my background music

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      I listen to most types of music but the type of music I like I do not really know the genre of what it is called but its real deep with groups like suicide boys, cold hart, lil Tracy, lil peep, wicca phase springs eternal, and lil darkie (not his scream rap) just chill music, its mostly sad in general.     The song i have been getting into recently is two songs the first one is anxiety by lil darkie and its a rap that is just a vibe, its different from what he normally makes of him screaming into a microphone but to each their own. The song starts off with a weird skit with him on the radio talking to people and they are almost not prepared for the "boss" to come back so soon.  An example of music that has stuck with me for  while and that never really left has to be old lil peep and what he did with the guitars and had a flow with it and no one else can really replicate it. The most popular song by him is called starshopping its a pretty da...
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