Big Blog 2: One Final Musical Culture
I'm adding this little note the day after writing and submitting this blog: Somehow the one class I managed to miss all semester was the one where we apparently covered Indonesia and the Gamelan, and I didn't realize that until I started the final after quiz... So here is what is probably a review of what y'all already learned, though hopefully I added a detail or two in here that is new. When thinking of a final musical culture for this blog, I decided to ask my dad for ideas on what to cover since he seems to somehow know about every type of cool music there is. He started telling me about Gamelan, and pretty soon I was sold on the idea of researching and writing about it for my last blog, so here we go. To get started, what is Gamelan? According to Britannica , Gamelan is an indigenous orchestra native to Bali and Java Indonesia. Its name originates from the Javanese word "gamel" which means "to strike with a mallet," due to the fact that many of th...
