Sunday, March 31, 2013

Kenyan children singing




Title:  Unknown
Performer:  Unknown
Culture: Kenya, Africa
Orchestration:  singing children

Other than this being the cutest video ever, the African tradition of moving while singing is seen here as well as the call and response structure that is common in Africa.  Although these are children, they are embedded with these distinct characteristics within their music.  I was thinking along the lines of what a concert may look like if students were to add their own expression to the music of other cultures like chapter 6 was saying in Campbell and "Prayer of the Children" came into my head for some reason.  This is a beautiful song by itself, but I began thinking about medleys and how I could incorporate a song like "Prayer of the Children"and incorporate other songs around it to make it a whirlwind of a concert that brought people from feeling bad for countries that aren't as developed to seeing what these people from other cultures make out of the music that they have and the environment they live in.  This is such a happy song and usually there are such heart breaking stories about sickness and poverty in Africa that it would be cool to take the audience from feeling their heart break to feeling their joy, or sandwiching joy around heart break.  It is just interesting to think about how I would use world music and what I could do with it.

No comments:

Post a Comment