Nightingale <sing@music.ca> wrote in message news:<c7asc5$1o7d3$1@ID-140164.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Adam Golding wrote:
>
> > very interesting.
> >
> > in what context were you taught this? is there a standard text dealing
> > with these sorts of divisions?
>
> One of the required first year music courses "Musics and Cultures". Some
> of the material was in our text (which I didn't like much), but I think
> the general classification was notes from the teacher. You could
> probably find some helpful books under Ethnomusicology.
>
> > is there a recorded anthology along
> > the lines of the Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music??
> >
>
> I don't know if there is any equivalent - our textbook covered some of
> it, and came with CDs that had some interesting examples, but was not as
> comprehensive as Norton. There were also videos available, some of which
> we watched.
>
> http://www.learner.org/resources/series105.html
what's the story with this website? are you taking online courses?
you seem to have learned much more than I did in first my first year
"Music and Society" course at UofT...
> Folk was mostly rural & villages - examples included Bosnian ganga
> singing and music from Tuva. One of the TAs does that kind of singing,
> and he came in to talk about it & demonstrate for us.
>
> Popular was mostly urban - I think the example she played was Edith Piaf.
Edith Piaf??
> > What seems missing from all of these categories, though, is some of
> > the more modern crossover musics out there now--for instance the music
> > in anime soundtracks, or in bollywood movies.
>
> There is more & more music that isn't really one or the other of the 8
> regions, but using elements of 2 or more. One of the questions on the
> final was to listen to and answer questions about music that had
> elements of both East Asia and New World America - I don't know what the
> piece was, but it reminded me some of the popular music from Hong Kong
> that my ex used to like.
>
> What are anime and bollywood?
anime is japanese, or asian, animation, aka "japanimation"--well known
examples include Akira, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My
Neighbour Totoro -- the last three examples are by a well-respected
director named Miyazaki, and feature music by a composer named Jo
Hisaishi. His score for totoro somtimes sounds like japanese folk
music in western orchestral arrangments, and at other times sounds
more like gershwin. And there is a 'kooky' substyle on the soundtrack
as well.
bollywood is a genre of modern indian cinema--i've only seen one film
in the style, but it sounds sort of like indianized melodramatic
techno-pop.
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