The final blog! To be honest, I wasn't that excited to write this blog. The styles of music are not as familiar as the things I’ve written about in the past. In the instructions for the blog it was stated that if you knew the song you basically couldn’t use it. That made me uncomfortable at first but I’m glad I reached out of my comfort zone and explored some other music. The first continent I chose to talk about was North America of course. First, traditional music from the culture, I chose a song entitled The One I Love. I am personally not a big fan of the music that comes out of the Native American culture but I chose the song because I felt it showed/encaptured it pretty well. The drums, voices and unification really gave it the authentic Native American song feel. The next song I chose was a modern take on the culture of North American Native music. It was released 6 years ago. I actually kind of enjoyed the song. It’s really cool to see so much come together. Different styl...
Since a kid, music has always been something important to me. A lot of different people and experiences have shaped my music taste, or exposure. What comes to mind immediately is my friends, a (very specific) music class in 2nd grade, and lastly my family. Specifically, my dad. At a very young age I was exposed to lots of different music from my dad. I remember taking his MP3 player and putting headphones in and listening for hours. Through that (and our various car rides) I discovered a lot of different sounds. Some of it being things he was currently listening to but a lot of it being things that he grew up on. When I talked to my dad it was actually a really interesting conversation. I thought back to these conversations that we have had about music in the past and hearing these same stories as a 20-year-old as opposed to a young kid makes for a very different but very cool understanding. That understanding really came when I talked to my dad about who he was listening to at my age....