Diverse Cultures and their Musics, January 2025

  Welcome to Diverse Cultures and their Musics! I'm glad that you're here--both in the class and on my blog, which you'll be visiting weekly during the semester. Our class blogs will be places to explore, teach, and learn--they're some of the most fun parts of the class. Blogs serve a few different purposes. They're primarily written journals, so, while you'll want to use your best writing skills, you'll also want to write using your own voice. Unlike pencil-and-paper journals, though, blogs also allow you to share a variety of media. You'll be including pictures and videos and sound files on your own blogs throughout the semester, and you'll need to make sure they all upload and are easy for your readers to access. Finally, blogs do all of these things in a public forum, which will allow you to learn from each other, because learning just from me gets really old really quickly. Because they're public, though, you need to be sure that you conduct...

 Our first blog posts are going to have several purposes: 1. To get you into the habit of writing about music, 2. To prompt you to figure out how to use certain tech aspects of Blogger, and 3. To let us get to know something  about each other's musical experiences and preferences. And, if we're lucky, you'll all get to learn about a music that you didn't already know about but find yourself enjoying! Here's your blog topic. I want you to write about the types of music in your personal world and specific pieces or artists that you find especially important. Specifically, I want you to tell us three things: Share with us an example of music that is your current go-to. Something that you might throw onto Spotify (or equivalent) for any reason that you care to share. Basically, something that you like  right now,  for no other reason than you just  like it. Share with us an example of music that is personally meaningful, and has been for awhile. It can be attached t...