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Blog 9 Hoq
During the Sama ceremony, the Mevlevi performs a spiritual dance in order to achieve meditation and contemplation. According to the textbook, “The Mevlevi place a strong emphasis on music, which sends the practitioner’s physical body into a slow dance of graceful and ecstatic turning” (Pg 129). The dance consists of the performer entering the space […]
Blog 8 Hoq
“Good Girls Go Bad” is a dance-pop song produced by the American pop band Cobra Starship which features Leighton Meester. It was officially released on May 11, 2009. This particular song emphasizes the male’s coercion capabilities on the opposite sex. As a result, the female in this scenario becomes convinced by the male’s tactics and […]
Blog 7 Hoq
My mother’s side of the family originally came from Iraq. There are several genres of music associated with Iraqi ethnicity. Some of these genres are present in a common traditional Iraqi dance known as kawleeya. This particular dance was believed to be a disgraceful dance and was only performed by gypsies. However, over time, the […]
Blog 6 Hoq
The social context in the piece of music “Baamaaya” has shifted over time. Baamaaya is considered to be a popular traditional dance among the Dagbamba people in Ghana. In the past, there were several different reasons why the Baamaaya dance was performed. Some reasons are that the movements of the dance kept mosquitoes away at […]
Blog 5 Hoq
After witnessing several different concert traditions during class, I came to the realization that I would be the most comfortable in a jazz club performance as an audience member. The environment in the jazz club is carefree and less restricted in comparison to the chamber music recital and the symphony orchestra concert. The audience is […]
Blog 4 Hoq
In the opening scene of the movie “Get Out”, an African American male, Logan, is wandering alone at night through an affluent and primarily white neighborhood. Logan is lost and struggles to figure out the directions to his destination. In the meantime, he is on the phone with his friend and begins to complain about […]
Blog 3 Hoq
The synthesizer, a piece of musical technology, has a significant impact on majority of the songs created in modern day. A synthesizer is an electrical musical instrument that produces audio signals which is then transformed into sounds. One of the earliest synthesizers was invented during the 1870s by an American electrical engineer named Elisha Gray. […]
Blog 2 Hoq
For this blog, I would like to choose the song “Halo” by Beyonce Knowles. This song was officially released on January 20, 2009, and falls under the R&B and Pop genre categories. Beyonce Knowles rose to fame in the 1990s as the lead singer of an R&B girl group known as Destiny’s Child. Eventually, she […]
Blog 1 Hoq
Out of the six historical periods of Western Art Music, I felt most intrigued by the Classical Period (ca. 1730-ca. 1820). I was interested in this particular period because I have always enjoyed listening to classical music. This led to my curiosity in the origin of classical music and how it all began. During the […]
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