Music and Us - Our New Playlist
For this blog I was really excited to do since there was a few countries I was sad that we could not get to in class. Here is my new playlist with the music I was able to research! The first culture I decided to dive into was the Inuit culture which is located in North America. I picked this because I thought it was interesting how they don't need to use lyrics to be able to make music! This is throat singing which is also called Katajjaq. What I thought was interesting from this culture compared to the others we've learned in class is the group who would preform this would actually be the women instead of the men. This is because men were normally out hunting so the women developed Katajjaq to be able to entertain themselves! A modern example of Inuit culture would be an artist by the name Aasiva. She is a young Inuit singer and songwriter from Panniqtuuq, Nunavut, Canada. She combines traditional Inuit style of throat singing and lyrics with indie folk....
