Back line-listening description

I am describing the song ‘back line’ in the Carnival book per instructions on the syllabus.I never noticed how hard it is to describe a song without lyrics or some sort of vocal backtrack. I guess I have become so used to having the vocals as my phrasing separation guideline that I have completely become [...]

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track 11 listening description

This song is entitled “Congo Bara” off of the Carnival music in Trinidad book By Shannon Dudley. Below is my description of the piece: The contour of the piece started off as very hill and shallow drops in the notes due to the high brass instrument with the trills. After :12 seconds into the song, [...]

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IRON DUKE- Listen description and IDEAS

I decided to analyze ‘Listening Duke’ from the Carnival Music Book by Shannon Dudley. First of all I wanted to say that it is an EXTREMELY catchy song. It is going to be in my head for weeks, i can tell. Below is a picture of Iron duke from his first album. The contour of [...]

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Cultural traits that carried over from africa

There are many cultural traits and components that have carried over from Africa to the Caribbean. First of all, the wonderful social connection that Africa is famous for is apparent in the Caribbean and Trinidad. Just like we see in Africa, the people all join together and create wonderful music and even thread in improvisation. [...]

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Tracks 1-4 in Carnival music

Here are the similarities of tracks 1-4 in the carnival music book: 1. Call and Response- Pump up and Chant to Osanyin both had call and response worked into the vocals. Pump up was a more structured call and response while the Chant was more improvising, and sounded as though it was more of a [...]

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Museum of the African Diaspora

CAN YOU SAY ROAD TRIP????? Seriously, I loved all of the online exhibits, and REALLY want to visit this museum. There was so much work, soul and character put into every single online piece that I felt connected to those who had developed it. Here are some of my favorite hi-lights of the Website exhibit: [...]

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African Diaspora (october 14th)

The African Diaspora is basically describing the movement of the African culture to many parts of the Globe, mainly due to forced slave trade. The slave trades that effected the Diaspora the most was the Arab and Atlantic slave trade, that was sent out to Europe, middle east and the area we reefer to as [...]

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BaAka musical example- Makala BaAka

Ok, so I am going to TRY and exsplain number four (Makala BaAka), since I found it to be very beautiful it almost made me cry. The contour was not constant at all: sometimes it would stay pretty stagnant and once and a while it would jump up due to the high/belting voices that came [...]

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BaAka/Kpelle people comparision

(originally due Monday october 5th) The BaAka and Kpelle people have many musical culture things in common. After watching/reading the interesting BaAka video online here is my comparison: 1. They both find music/dance/performance very important as it brings communities together and allows them to have closer ties among each other. 2. Both find it imperative [...]

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Central themes (chapter 6)

(due monday september 28th, 2009) The song that I thought tied in really nicely to each theme outlined in chapter six was track number two (the Woi epic performance). Here is the outline form I came up with while listening to the song with the themes in mind: 1. music links sounds to dance, instrument [...]

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