Music Ethnography: Adolescence In Yuba City

Williams, Yohuru. "Rhythm and Bruise: How Cuts to Music and the Arts Hurt Kids and Communities." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2016.

The book Songs in Their Heads: Music and It’s Meaning in Children’s Lives by Patricia Shehan Campbell is an anthropological study of samples of children in the US and their relation to music and music making. The book is broken into three parts: children at musical play, conversations with children about music, and children’s musical education. Campbell’s study focuses on what children musically are and what they musically become through parents and teachers.

Marie and her mother try to forget the hurtful past with their passion for music, “What mattered was the here and now and not the life before, what mattered were the changeable things of today and tomorrow” (14). Their life in China was tragic, the experience of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the early ages left the survivors like Ma devastated. Analysis: “It was a time of chaos, of bombs and floods, when love songs streamed from the ratio and wept down the streets. Music sustained weddings, birth, rituals, work, marching, boredom, confronting and death; music and stories,

The magic of music lies in its ability to allow us to escape while reminding us of what defines our reality, and it is no different in Alexie’s novel. The constant presence of music, a form of flight for the characters, serves as a repeated reminder to the audience of the harsh, complicated world of the American Indian. Thus, in framing oppression as something so full of weight and intensity that it can bring our characters down from the freedom that music brings, we can see the full emotional restraint and frustration our characters feel, particularly as Native Americans whose entire culture is based upon sound and expression. In not being able to tap into the cultural well of the land that was once theirs, modern Native Americans, like Thomas

Music’s role on society has changed drastically through the course of its history as it has become ever so increasingly mainstream. As the Swing Era began, music was incredibly easy for any such group of people to listen to. As Swing grew, it “formed racially

In any neighbourhood, a sense of community is something that is quite often present. In fact, in Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear Window, viewers witness a man progressively gaining a deep comprehension of his neighbours through his deeply-rooted voyeuristic desires to delve into their lives. In its entirety, the film demonstrates through its protagonist how this neighbourhood is too dispassionate and unconcerned to classify as a community. However, Hitchcock’s portrayal of how commonalities between individuals can assist in establishing new relationships, does suggest that on a minute scale, some individuals are more than just “people who live closely together”. Music, more often than not, is a form of art that intends to bring individuals

During the 1950s, many teenagers began to rebel against their parent’s music that they loved. Teenagers began to create a new culture of music and social category all over the United States “since they started to reject their parent’s values and culture” (Martin, Segrave 6). They began to test numerous boundaries such as sexuality, musical, and racial mixing. Several adolescents began to slowly blurred the restrictions of sacredness and secularism.

In this peer-reviewed academic article the central argument was that in many schools only Caucasian music and literature is being learned about instead of Native American music. This is an issue because children in school now are not able to learn about a different culture due to the limitation of only learning about Caucasian music and literature. Also, another issue is that since the world is made up of many different cultures, the students should be learning about more than one to get a better understanding on that culture. The result of this is children will understand the history of Native Americans and the different types of music from other cultures. Another result is that children will not understand the meanings behind these types of music and literatures.

I reacted as politely as I could to the cultural differences in the Bronx. The culture shock often made me irritable and honestly annoyed, but I never lashed out or maliciously acted on my sentiments. With the constant Spanish, music playing, and different attitudes, I needed to find a way to zone out my surroundings. And I turned to music, country music in particular. I had always loved country music, but I really came to love it while in the Bronx. It was a way for me to regress into the culture in which I came—mainly a white culture that often has an affinity for the outdoors and wilderness. The urban jungle of NYC rarely offers a great area to fish or hunt. Yet I also did try to embrace the changing culture. I would dance to the Latin music that many of my students played; I would eat locally and try different cultures’ foods; and I read up on the history of the Bronx and how it evolved into a city with a working class that is socioeconomically challenged, and how many people—especially those of color—have received the brunt end of public policy decisions that have no other explanation than environmental racism and unjust drug policies. For example, we worked with students whom, at any given time, could have their homes evicted, suffer an asthma attack from the unconscionable pollution caused by the Bruckner Bridge that connects upstate New York to Manhattan, or lose a father or mother or sibling to one of the everyday evils that swirl around a neighborhood like Hunts

The article Music therapy?s effects on levels of depression, anxiety, and social isolation in Mexican farmworkers living in the United States: A randomized controlled trial by Melody Schwantes, Cathy McKinney, and Niels Hannibal is a detailed explanation about a research study. This study was made to find out whether music therapy could change levels of isolation, anxiety, and depression in Mexican farmworkers living in camps. This study was only performed on males who were living in camps without their wives or families. There were two groups, a music therapy condition group which played instruments, and a comparison group which listened to music on cd players.

Popular Culture Essay Music has long been an expression of cultures and an indicator of the multi-cultural nature around the world. It’s common purpose to bring people together and affecting society by the type of music people listen to and which emotions they are feeling at that time. Music was a powerful cultural force in the 1960’s. It is evident that the social climate of this time period shaped music. It was no surprise that there were important generational, racial, gender, class, regional and ideological differences, and these included bands and their audiences and within the entertainment industry it’s self-deep social tensions were shared by all.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, popular music and culture became significant influences on the lives of many individuals within the city of Los Angeles. East Los Angeles (“East L.A.” or “the Eastside”), in particular, was a center of flourishing musical, cultural, and social scenes with strong connections to the changing Chicano/a identity. Under this environment in which the Chicano movement (moviemiento) continued to prevail, a large number of socially aware and politically active, Latin-fusion “Chicano” bands were developed. One of such was the Ozomatli band, who strived to express their activist viewpoints through popular music. The spatial context of the band’s emergence, their links to past musical movements, and their implementation of a wide array of musical styles and genres all define their impact on Chicano identity in Los Angeles. Through their music, the Ozomatli band has showed much about the importance of the changing Chicano culture and served as the framework for cultural and social dynamics of present-day Los Angeles.

Music has been integrated in our lives more than before. In an era where portable music players and cellphones give people access to thousands of songs anywhere they go, music has easily become a soundtrack to our life. In our current era, children by the age of five will have listened to more music than Mozart was exposed to his entire life. This past winter I had the privilege of visiting Theo’s Place, a children’s home in Fond Doux Haiti. Before leaving the United States, I had been told that there would be a language barrier. As much as I tried to imagine what that would be like, I failed. I grew up with the privilege of Spanish-speaking parents, and so Spanish became my first language. On my first day of 1st grade, I was introduced to

July in the city of Toronto is a scorchingly hot month and the need to escape to a lake or forest is at the forefront of most individuals’ agendas. Only then are they content amidst thoughts of campfires and mosquitos. It is music to their ears. For permanent cottage country residents like myself summer brings months of ruined rhythms. My village hums as thousands of tourists ascend with the same need to escape. However, where does one go to find musical inspiration in chaos? And if one finds it, is it learned or innate? This essay will examine how we are conditioned to believe our ability to listen and perform music can only exist within certain parameteres; how Blacking’s hypothesis “music is innate”( ) applies to those untutored; and how both lured an entire village to love Indian Taco’s.

My introversion during freshman year, one of the most turbulent tenures in my life, left me devoid of a sense of self. Fortunately, a fledgling interest in music filled this void. The first record found in my Spotify library, dating back to the beginning of freshman year, is an album by the Queens Of The Stone Age entitled “Songs For The Deaf.” However, analogous to the foundation of my identity, the foundation of my musical taste was not found there; it was instead found in the suite of styles I experimented with during this period.