Monday, August 20, 2007

Chinese music and drama

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xYWiQ_RnLWE Beijing Opera scene
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EiiUnk1gac&mode=related&search= Yue Cantonese opera

Thursday, August 9, 2007

African Music

Dogon people:
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7840 - text overview

http://youtube.com/watch?v=N0Sy0gKvAko - Sigi Ritual dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=26qaQEgA-1E - dance (short excerpt)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L-ERp8Nz4e4&mode=related&search= Funeral dance
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gCUD4XZvJW4 - dance in town square (from a local tv documentary)

Babongo Pygmy people:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gQ5wflDIejs (village panorama, mostly silent)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwetczFOCIE (musical instruments demo)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UdLhIgpJCRA (another instrument demo)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ydhC8qT_sT8 (animal imitations & vocal sounds)

Xhosa (& related):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RpF8ChX4iB8 (girls' dance, Capetown; short excerpt)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=B91cE_vqx1c children singing in a classroom, short excerpt
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oIc-_g9WtkI&mode=related&search= drummers in a Capetown market, presumably Xhosa
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8tmnosIwy-I&mode=related&search= (Transkei region documentary; much of the text is in [trivial] German, but the doc is very helpful)