Julia

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 Hi    and welcome to my ethnomusicology page! My class has been working on seeing how modern music came from music from the kingdoms of Western Africa; the Ghana, Mali, Songhai, the Yoruba and others. We needed to have one modern song, one song from before 1974, and one from a different country. My songs consist of  //Bohemian Rhapsody   // by Queen,   //<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Life on Mars   //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> by David Bowie and //<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Sudani //<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> by the Abdel Gadir Salim All-Stars. It was very surprising to learn that you can find similarities in almost every song. I hope you enjoy and learn something about how similar our cultures are. <span style="background-color: rgb(0, 255, 151);"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> __<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">  **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">ANYTIME, ANYWHERE **   __<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">media type="file" key="11 Bohemian Rhapsody.m4a"

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Bohemian Rhapsody   //**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Artsist   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: Freddy Mercury, Queen from   //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">A night at the Opera   //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Written   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: 1975 <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Genre   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: Rock <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Synopsis   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of a young man who has just killed someone and is telling his mother about how he must leave his home. This song has a classic rock guitar that then shifts into more of an opera when the man is pleading to the officials to let him go. The opera portion has vibrato and call and response. Bohemian Rhapsody also has a piano that has a very sad tone to it that isn't quite blues. It is mostly because most of the chords used are minors that sound very dismal. In West African music, they sang about many things; even some sad stories like the story of Bohemian Rhapsody. West African music also has a lot of call and response such as "Bismillah, No we will not let him go", "let him go" in this song.

**<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> __<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">BEFORE 1974 __ ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">[|David Bowie's-Life on Mars?]   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> This is a video of Bowie performing  //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Life On Mars? //<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> The way David Bowie performed on this song and in concert was very different from the artists of that age. He'd put on a persona that had the point of view for each album.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">media type="file" key="04 Life On Mars_.m4a"

<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **//<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Life on Mars? //**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Artist   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: David Bowie and featured pianist Rick Wakeman <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Written   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: 1971 <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Genre   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">:Classic rock <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Synopsis   **<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: rgb(33, 253, 161);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">: Life on Mars is a story of a young girl who is growing up in a hard life; her parents fight and she's living in a very strained atmosphere. She's sitting in a movie theater to escape her parents, but she's not actually watching the movie, she's thinking about her life. This is a rock song but it has a blues piano progression in it; the first three notes are c,d,f as opposed to a normal C chord that goes c,d,g. Again, West African music was sometimes sad, and it also was the start of blues; like the chord progression in this song. __<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Chords to Life on Mars: __ <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">[|Piano part to Life on Mars?]  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">

__ ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">DIFFERENT COUNTRY ** __  <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">media type="file" key="02 Sudani 1.m4a" **//<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Sudani //**<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Artist: <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Abdel Gadir Salim all-Stars **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Written: **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> album produced 1990 **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Genre: <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">World **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">Synopsis: **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> The song is praise to the country of Sudan. It's giving a prayer that Sudan remain strong and free. This song has a very unique call and response; the main singer is calling and the rest of the singers are responding but also he's calling and responding with the instruments. The instruments themselves are very natural and raw; like the percussion and the strings. There are some sitars and bongos, those are some of the instruments the musicians of West Africa would have played with. But there's also some brass accompaniment. <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">

__**<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">CONCLUSION **__<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">It is so interesting how one culture can influence the whole world of music to come. The musicians of Western Africa inspired generation after generation to keep composing and experimenting. It makes me want to look back on my heritage and se how they relate to our songs today. I encourage you to do the same. **