YouTube links for Latin America

• Button accordion player from contest in Colombia
• Cumbia video from Colombia
• Colombian schoolchildren dancing to cumbia "La Pollera Colorá"
  
• Panpipe players - good example of hocket technique

YouTube links for sub-Saharan Africa

• Mbira performers in the United States
• 1932 film of so-called "Pygmies": good example of the "bad old days" of colonialism and racism
• Batwa of Uganda: an attempt to raise money for an impoverished people
  
• San of the Kalahari Desert: debatable arguments about the Kalahari as "contemporary ancestors"

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Talking drum (lunga) performance by Nigerian musician Rasaki Aladokun (good closeup at 0:23)

Faye Family of Senegal and the Géwël tradition

For more information about the residency at Suffolk University of the Faye Family, practitioners of the géwël tradition in Senegal, see their blog.

The Góralski dance in the Tatra Mountains of Poland

Video of a góralski dance, similar to that described in Worlds of Music. The leading male dancer calls out to a woman to join him. Another man escorts the woman and dances a few steps with her, then turns her over to the leading man to dance more steps.

Links for Middle East

Hakim, "is-Salamu 'Alaykum" ("Peace be with you" - a common Islamic greeting. This song was controversial among some strict Muslims in Egypt.)


Performance on buzuq (plucked stringed instrument) and tombak (drum):


Mosque in Cordoba, Spain - one of the most visible legacies of Muslim rule in Spain before 1492

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Sufi Zikr in Turkey - in the center are the dancers commonly known as "whirling dervishes"
Zikr - not certain of location
Kawala player in Turkey - very different style from our madh example!
Omaima el-Khalil, singer, accompanied by Marcel Khalife. A combination of Arabic art music and a jazz ballad.
Dina, Egyptian belly dancer

Course outline

The course outline has been revised. The link is under Course Documents at right.

Exam 1 postponed

Exam 1 has been postponed until Friday, October 16. Please be sure to view the latest version of the syllabus on Blackboard.

Films for Balinese gamelan

• Bali and Beyond Gamelan - excellent Balinese gamelan examples. See 2:27 and 6:35 for good examples of kotekan (interlocking).
• Gamelan gong kebyar - excellent closeups
• Compare kotekan (interlocking) in Balinese gamelan with the music of a handbell choir:
  

YouTube films for Javanese gamelan

This is part of a 10-video series of a wayang kulit (shadow puppet) performance.


Suling player - notice the circular breathing technique
Javanese gamelan - soft style with singers. Notice the following places:

• 0:21: Gender (left foreground) plays rapid, high notes, while slenthem (right foreground) plays the skeleton slowly, one note at a time
• 2:57: Closeup of rebab (spike fiddle)
  
• 3:30: Closeup of kenongs (large kettle gongs) and kethuk (kettle gong that keeps the beat with a dull tap; in red frame)
  

Three Variations on Yang Pass

A complete performance of "Yangguan san die" ("Three Variations on Yang Pass") on the qin. This performance is at a lower pitch than the one included on the Worlds of Music CD set.

Chinese popular music videos

Cui Jian and the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989:


The Twelve Girls Band performing Coldplay and Mozart:

Welcome to World Music

Welcome to World Music, MUH 223, Fall 2009.