MUSIC 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Harvard Square, Street Performance, Kotekan
7 Jan 2020
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Chapter 2: the study of local musics (boston, usa) Cities are ports, how they existed through foreign forces and colonial rule. Case study: mapping soundscapes in boston, usa. Peruvian busker playing sikus at harvard square. Balinese gamelan performing on campus at the massachusetts institute of. Big city, has a port, has been under british colonial rule. Founded in 1630- was when the first explorers came over. Big on jazz in the berklee college of music. One of the liveliest settings for musical performances by a variety of street musicians, called buskers, from folk singers, accordian players, rock groups, latin ensembles, Chinese instrumentalists, and west african musicians to south american musicians like. Beginning in the 1990s, the northern peruvian group wayno (also known as nazca ) performed outside the entrance to the harvard cooperative society , playing traditional. Peruvian melodies often featuring the close coordination between 2 players of sikus (panpipes), aerophones consisting of multiple bamboo tubes laced together.
