Emorie's Trip Around the World of Music and Culture

Hello Everyone!       Welcome to the first finals week of our freshman year and my very last blog for this class. Before I get started on my blog, I wanted to talk about the reason why I chose Ireland to do my musical research on. When I was 16, I babysat for an Irish family who had just moved to Charleston. After babysitting for them for a year, I really started to learn more about Ireland and listen in to the stories and their experiences that they had living in a different country. To me, this really caught my attention because I realized that I knew nothing about other countries and their cultural aspects, so I thought I would talk about Ireland. SO… hold on, stay with me, and be patient as you read through my blog. I am still learning about their culture, and do not know everything about them, but I will do my best to explain what I have learned.       To get started on my blog, I am going to talk about how Irish music came to be and the back...

Good evening,  I wanted to start my blog off with saying congrats to everyone, we are almost done with the first semester of freshman year. SO much stress, time, and effort put into this school year while a pandemic is going on. Keep y’alls head’s up and remember that we are almost halfway through.  On to my blog, and some background on what I will be discussing… In class when we went over all the basics of Arabic and Islamic music and its culture, I started thinking about what I wanted to talk about. Normally I start with where the culture originated, where it came from, and how it formed, but I wanted to dig deeper in other parts of the Arabic/ Islamic culture. I searched for a little bit and came across an article about “Culture, Traditions, and Art” within Saudi Arabia, and was very interested in finding out about their folk music, dance and poetry. Saudi Arabia’s cultural inheritage is celebrated at the Jenadriyah National Culture and Heritage Festival. The Jenadriyah Nat...