World Cultures 6

 Purposes:  Religious inspiration  Cultural expression  Entertainment  These are also known as:  Ceremonial  Artistic  Recreational

 Pop  Rock and Roll  Indy-Rock persuasion?  Folk Music

 Rock and Roll  John Coltrane  Bud Shank  The Beatles  Grateful Dead  Rolling Stones  Ravi Shankar

 Isolation of India  unique musical tradition  distinctive sounds of instruments

 Musical instruments  Sitar Sitar  Tabla Tabla  Sarod Sarod  Sarangi Sarangi

 Folk Music  Maharashtra  Similar to poetry  Lavani  Females only!!!  Dandiya  Small sticks  Warrior training

 Sangeet  Vocal  Instrumental  Very ceremonial  Qawwali  Devotional music  1 or 2 lead singers  Several chorus singers

 Don’t forget to look/listen for these:  Tempo – how fast or slow the music goes  Dynamics – crescendo/decrescendo  Distinctive sounds of the instruments

 Movie scene Movie scene  Sangeet Music Sangeet Music  Sitar Recital Sitar Recital  Maharashtra Maharashtra  Lord Ganesha video Lord Ganesha video

 Duration – the length of time the movement lasts

 Direction – where a dancer moves

 Pathway – the path a dancer makes across the floor  zig-zag, straight, curved, winding  others you can think of?

 Tempo – how fast or slow the movement is

 Loco motor – movements that usually travel through space

 Non loco motor – movements that most often stay in one place

 Shape – the design of the body as it exists in space

 Space – where the body moves  Personal space – space around me!  General space – space a dancer has to use

 Force – how heavy/light, sharp/smooth, tense/relaxed, bound/flowing a movement is

o Isolation of culture or region results in a unique dance tradition o classical dance forms from India, bharata natyam, kathak

 Sangeet Dance Sangeet Dance  Wedding sangeet Wedding sangeet

 Bharata natyam  Tempo  Force  LM or NLM or both?