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This is a Tibetan Drinking song.
It's actually from a Chinese movie called Ganglamedo. This movie has won many international awards.



Music innovator James Whetzel takes a traditional tabla composition and puts english words to the rhythm of the tabla language. The video features scenes from the Volunteer Park Conservatory, Lakeview Cemetery and the art of Francis Celentano and Parks Anderson.



This is the tribe that lives near Bianca in Philippines. This is a nose flute. The tribes there apparently wear very few clothing and it is cold because they live in the mountains. According to Bianca, they eat nganga which is a type of fruit.
She also told me the they mummify the body just like Madagascar.



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I think that South East Asian and Arab music has opened my eyes more to the culture. It is so interesting and different. It's also interesting how everything is connected and everything has some an influence from everyone.
I realized about my culture is that Korea is very open minded. They took in other cultures and really studied it hard before making there own instruments. If Korea was not open minded, I do not believe that they could have made gayagum out of influence of the Chinese Chin instrument. In order to create an instrument but more unique, one must really study the original instrument. We also took in influences from other cultures that best suited our people. I believe that the western cultural influence hit Korea way later because China was of course closer to contact therefore always a step ahead of Korea in development. I do not see it necessarily a good or bad thing that Western influence came way later. Although there are many flaws in any country, Korea was still an overall very open country with people who were genuine. It is also so interesting to see that southeast instruments and dances are similar to Korea.

This course has made me think about the origins of everything. It has also taught me to tie connections with other cultures. I may have been more of a differentialist in the past, but I see now more of the universalistic view of the world's culture and music. It's beautiful how we are all somehow related to one another. But still, I really bravo those countries who have kept there own traditions alive for years. They have a strong foundation in who they are and there people.