Music & Us: Our New Playlist

 Hi everyone! I am so excited to share some of my music interests from around the world! I have really enjoyed learning about music from different cultures from around the world and I appreciate how much it has grown my playlist. 

One of my favorite cultures we learned about was one of our most recent ones being Australia. I have always been fascinated by Australia and I would love to visit one day. Something that stood out to me was was the didjeridoo that the people played in their culture. It was so interesting to learn how they used that instrument and it was so unique! I never knew about Australian culture nor that aboriginal Australians played such a cool instrument. I love that this is also such a traditional piece of music for their culture. Here is a video of someone playing a didjeridoo from the heart and mind festival from Lewis Burns! 

Another culture I am so interested in is a place we have not covered yet. Brazil has always been so interesting and beautiful to me and learning about their culture is so incredibly cool. When I started searching for cultures and music/ dancing I was interested in, Brazil caught my eye. In the few videos I watched they used a lot of vocables, much like Africa, and when they danced they were doing cool flips and tricks. They also repeated much of their words. That resonates with me because I am on the acro team here at Converse, so it made me more inclined to be interested in this type of culture. While looking, I came across a really cool video from the Afro- Brazilian Carnaval! They sang, danced, and flipped. Take a look! 

 

One thing I find super cool is yodeling in the alps! My boyfriend showed me a few months ago a video of a man yodeling about chickens in a modern way. It was super funny but also super cool and interesting! He took yodeling and made it sound pop, new, and fun as well as putting visuals in the video including real life chickens. Yodeling originated in Europe and has since started being used everywhere around the world, even in the United States when the "yodel kid" went viral for yodeling in a Walmart one year. When I saw this assignment, I immediately knew I wanted to talk about yodeling in the alps and how it can be modernized by different sounds and music behind the yodel. Check out this cool video! 

  

Finally, my favorite culture that we learned about in this class was Western Africa. Specifically, African drumming. It made me dance in my seat! I absolutely loved their culture, they were so happy doing what they loved, and I loved how it felt like family in every video we watched. In a video I came across on youtube, they were performing to a crowd of people. During the performance, they used call and response as well as vocables when they were singing. They sang in their language and just had fun with it. I loved the way they use their drums it is so different and unique from what we do here in the United States! This was my favorite culture because of how happy they look in every video and they just do it because they love it not because they have to. I also love the dancing they do because its so interesting and cool to watch how different it is from the US! Here is the video I found! 

I really hope you enjoyed this blog as much as I did! It was truly amazing to expand my music around the world and add music to our new playlist! I really love how these cultures continue to keep their traditions alive, and how much they want to share their culture to the rest of the world!