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    Who Is Dave Grohl?

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    Soon he was lending his drumming skills to motion picture soundtracks‚ making appearances on SNL and even began writing and recording some new tracks. Grohl was also messing around with some previously recorded demos‚ eventually releasing them under a new name the Foo Fighters.

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    Puberty Rites in Ghana

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    Puberty Rites After the child naming ceremony‚ puberty rites are the next set of rituals of social status transformation which children undergo in Ghanaian culture. The most well preserved puberty rites are the Dipo (pictured) of the Krobo ethnic group and the Bragoro of the Ashanti’s. These ceremonies mark the entry of young women into adulthood. In Ghana only a small section of ethnic groups usually found in the northern parts of the country have initiation rites for men and where they occur they

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    music‚ including drums‚ flutes‚ and other percussion instruments. Perhaps the most important element of their music is the voice. Most of the instruments are percussive‚ and the reason why is it could provide rhythmic accompaniment to singing. Solo drumming don’t use much in their music. But there are variety of drum and rattle types. Large drums‚ small hand-drums‚ kettledrum‚ and pieces of rawhide simply suspended from stakes are examples of drum types widely distributed. The most common melody-producing

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    functioning in parts of the brain responsible for stress-response. Dr. Perry suggests that repetitive activity is necessary to cause change in the brain’s neural network. “Repetitive rhythmic somatosensory activity” (p. 14) such as music‚ dance‚ drumming‚ jumping on a trampoline‚ swinging‚ etc. can be used to foster change in the neural networks (MacKinnon‚

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    and songs such as the Owl Dance Song. Prince George’s First Nations are known as the Carrier Sekani First Nations people speaking the traditional Dakelh language. Dressed in their exquisite traditional attire they compete in many dances to rhythmic drumming. The Men and

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    quickly transferred by passing on to one another what we would have heard from the other person. It is said that oral societies have very interesting and innovative means of documenting historical (cultural) information such as singing‚ dancing and drumming; means of documentation without the use of written word. Spoken communication is observed in many contexts such as polite society (formal meetings) to merely chatting with a friend and its value is placed on this way of communicating mainly because

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    The Battle of Algiers is a fascinating example of the evocation of thought that can be brought out by a film with such power. Each individual who views the film comes out with a slightly different opinion onto which side the film is skewed. Certainly the film pulls no punches in it’s depiction of the events in which the film represents. However‚ in all indications‚ Gillo Pontecorvo sought to make a neutral sided film that showed the futility of oppression and war. While one side may come out as

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    African Drum Notes

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    music except hip-hop or jazz‚ which are combined with Western music. Therefore‚ similar to the Westerner’s common perspective towards the African music mentioned in the passage‚ I could not understand how people can create music through only singing‚ drumming and dancing with complicated rhythms. However‚ in the passage‚ the author suggests to compare with our own cultures to become more familiar with the African cultures. When I compare the music that we are currently learning during the class with the

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    Essay On Korean Adoption

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    became closer to them than the majority of my friends. The people at Camp Choson are practically a second family to me. Along with meeting people the camp also taught us about Korean culture. During camp‚ activities to teach us included Korean dance‚ drumming‚ Taekwondo‚ traditional foods‚ and learned about traditional and modern Korea. To teach us about modern Korea‚ the camp brought in a different group of people from Korea each year. The visitors ranged from break dancers to college students. By learning

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    Esteban Montejo

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    ” When they would brush their teeth they would use soap-tree bark and Montejo said that it made their teeth very white. These slaves did a great job of maintaining their social and cultural traditions‚ every Sunday they woke up and there would be drumming that started around twelve of one o’clock. While this didn’t entirely give them a sense of more freedom‚ Montejo explains that it made their day on the plantation a lot easier because everyone was joyful and upbeat about the drums being played. They

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