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  Music & Society Music is such an important part of life. From its first introduction to the world, to now. I see music as a place where you can release or boost your emotions, relive memories or make connections with other people. I grew up with some 80's, a lot of 90's and 00's music. As I got older the style of music has changed dramatically, we see and hear more intense and inappropriate verbiage and a lot more "inspiration" to drugs and alcohol. Although, I do enjoy all genres of music from hip-hop, R&B, country, gospel, and fiddle, I sometimes wish I grew up in the older era, in which I feel like I can mostly relate to the music style. According to John Hopkins, Keep Your Brian Young With Music , it states that " Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory."   I can agree with this statement because I do see how music can affect

 Take a Musical Trip                                                                                                                               Amber Dennis Tejano (Mexico, US) Musical Trip This has spiked my attention when I was reminded that a Mexican Musical Trip qualified as something that isn't American or European, because the first person I thought about was the Mexican-American singer, Selena Quintanilla. Tejano has evolved from the Mexican population in South and Central Texas, and makes up of three musical styles; Conjunto, Orchestra and Modern. Like many other music cultures it changes and modernizes over time with the influences of new technology and equipment and diverse communities. Tejano music is said to be "local music with a global identity," which means that they have used many parts of other cultures of music into their own.  Although, Selena's most recent music was more American influenced, she still held deep respect for her community, culture

Amber Dennis Moana Background The movie Moana was produced in 2016 by Walt Disney Animation Studios. This movie demonstrates the peoples connection to the Earth through a "human island," which was inspired by Polynesian myths. In the movie, the people of Motununi, worship Ta Fiti, the living island who brought life to the sea with her heart which is a stone with powers. In the beginning, Ti Fiti gets her heart taken by Maui, who tried to use the stone to allow humans to create with powers. In doing that Maui had taken away the heart of Ta Fiti, who resulted in her deterioration and anger. The people of  Motununi , who were once voyagers, no longer think it it safe to leave their deteriorating island. The parents of Moana has shielded her from danger, especially the ocean to help her reach becoming the chief of the island. Through this Moana, has grown up and become very curious and does everything in her power in gaining the knowledge and history of  Motununi. Moana  puts ef

Eskimo Dancing, Drumming, Singing                Innovations & Evolutions The topic I chose for this assignment is unique to other musical instruments, Eskimo Dancing, the Yupik term is "yuraq." When I say Eskimo Dance, it includes everything from singing, drumming, and performing as they all need one or the other to be complete in itself. Eskimo Dancing is an Alaskan Native connection from the real world to the spiritual world, or as it explained in " Yupik dance in Bethel, Alaska, 1995," is a form of prayer.    One of the important evolutions I would like to bring up is the spiritual connection, in the modern day you see a lot of these connections and "rules" of Eskimo Dancing slowly fading away.  So, what is Eskimo dancing? Eskimo Dancing is a group of people where there are men who drum and sing using a round drum and sing songs in Yup'ik (may also be another Alaskan Native Language.) While they do that at a rhythm, ladies stand and dance to th