discussion music

  Topic: discussion music Order Description   explore this idea of a Raga vs a Scale. These musical ideas are similar but have significantly different cultural interpretations. From the readings and video links it is clear that a for Indian Classical musicians, a Raga is loaded with meaning--from the time of day to the season. It is also clear that certain scales are treated with a similar degree of cultural baggage by Irish folk musicians in the US and Ireland. The question is, then, how and more importantly why does something as simple as a collection of pitches (scale/raga) take on so much cultural baggage over time? And, can this teach as anything about the attribution of meaning in American Popular music?   Bakan Chapters 8-9 https://www.imsom.org/html_files/about.html (explore this website!) Listening: Any corresponding soundtracks associated with Bakan reading. Video: https://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=1239 Chose ‘Composers and Improvisers’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0fSUOiar0k “Intro to Raga”