Music Within The Stars

  As looking through the long list of American Roots Music and trying to decide which musical genre I would like to research on the most, I decided to choose the one that I have never heard of and that had an interesting name, Zydeco, a form of dance music.  I probably never heard of Zydeco because I am from the west in Reno, Nevada, and this music is from Louisiana.  Although Nevada and Reno was a very popular area for the blues and jazz back then. Zydeco is more specifically from the southwest of Louisiana.  It evolved by French Creole speakers with a mixture of blues, rhythm, and music indigenous to the Creoles and Native American people of Louisiana, and a blend off French accordion music and Afro-Caribbean beats. It is from the origin from the Cajun music of Louisiana.  Obviously it contains lots of different music, it comes from several other genres. The instruments it contains are an accordion, a frottoir, and a washboard.  If you add a guitar or...

     After a few weeks of learning about the cultures, music, dancing, history and how their lives were then and now for both the people of Indigenous America and Africa, I still had a few questions.  Which is crazy because I learned so much more than I thought I needed to.       One of the biggest things I wanted to know was the types of dances performed in a Powwow, especially when Powwow can last a whole weekend. As I was researching I found out that there can be different dances performed depending on what area or region the Powwow is, also what tribes are performing.  Like in California you’ll see Bird Dancing but in Oklahoma you’ll see Gourd Dancing.  Also depending on your gender is what type of dance you would perform.  While researching I noticed that with most dances the costumes they would wear matched with their dance.  There are around 10 different types of dances: straight, cloth, fancy shawl, buckskin, Native American...

  https://youtu.be/prmmCg5bKxA “Eenie Meenie” by Sean Kingston and Justin Bieber for now is my go to song, it is my first song I will play when I get in my car or just ever listen to music.  There’s nothing really special about it, it just gets me in a really good mood.  It’s a song I can easily dance and jump up and down to.  I think the lyrics are a little funny. Like “she’s indecisive, she can’t decide.” That’s what indecisive means lol.  It’s just a fun song that can change your mood in any second. I love listening to it before I compete to just put me in a pumped up mood.  https://youtu.be/UhTHgaCjTJs “Say I Won’t” by Mercy Me is a pop Christian song, so not many people would know it. I didn’t discover this song till last year, but it reminds me a lot about my history throughout my life.  I was a gymnast of 15 years before college.  Sadly gymnastics is the sport that has the most mental and sexual abuse cases from coaches than any other sport...