Diverse Cultures and their Musics January 2021

 Our first blog posts are going to have several purposes: 1. To get you back into the habit of writing about music after the long break, 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 you like (or not) 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 has really means something to you personally for awhile--say, a year or more. It can be attached to a specific event or person, from your childhood or your college years, or just something that you find yourself returning to over and over for whatever reasons.  Share with us an example of music that you...

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 frequently 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 you'll want to use your best writing skills (avoid texting lingo unless it serves a specific purpose). Unlike pencil-and-paper journals, though, they 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...