Stuff #1) Muslim Women Music Makers Event
This is a video report that BBC did about an event showing Muslim women performing different genres of music influenced through many things- particularly American music. These women are all Muslim, but they come from Lebanon, Denmark, the UK, and have all different tastes in their music and different reasons for performing that music. It's pretty cool to see others mix cultures and musics for a sharing experience.
Stuff #2) Electric Zither?
Supposedly, the Blue Man Group made themselves an 86-string electric zither, and this is one. I think it sounds kind of cool. You could make some cool techno using this instrument.
Stuff 3) Wendy's and a Didgeridoo?
A Wendy's commercial using a Didgeridoo = lots and lots of laughs.
Stuff #4) Chinese Opera and the Cultural Revolution
This opera performer talks about the decline and reappearance of Chinese opera due to the Chinese cultural revolution. Very cool.
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Your last video is very interesting, as it brings to mind the concept-theme of people as repositories of music, which we have skirted around this semester. When the transmission of music-culture and music-knowledge from generation to generation is interrupted, much is often lost, sometimes forever. Even our music-culture, which is based on printed music and sound recordings and has relatively little oral tradition, has a deep dependence of the students on the teachers to learn technique and ways of thinking about music. In music, one can learn only so much from books.
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