Diversity in Music
Wilmer Calabaza
Santo Domingo Pueblo & Navajo Nation
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Identity
Identity
Personal Connection:
My personal connection with my shp dates back from when I was a little kid. I was influenced by all the talented individuals in my family. Such as my grandpa and older brother, I was into music from the 80's and 70's. At a young age I was influenced by music from other genres, and learned to love music for its artistic value, and taste. The few people in this slide show examples of diversity inside of music. Flea being a gay bassist for the RHCP. Layne coming from an abusive household. Darron who sings about Armenian issues, being Armenian himself. Chester being bisexual in the community as well.
Staley Layne. commons.wikimedia.org
"Sharing One Skin."
"Sharing One Skin."
This article represents a person who wasn't very attached with their culture and tradition. Her struggle towards finding her identity was a journey to her. She had a yearning feeling towards her identity, her culture was a huge part in her journey. She had spiritual and emotional ties with her culture as well.
Malakian Daron. commons.wikimedia.org
"How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscapes."
"How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscapes."
This article is about how we have emotional ties as well as spiritual ties with old landmarks and relics of time. We struggle with how it affects the environment as well as the place we have a tie towards. The land can show us different parts of history as well as some traditional rituals in the area.
Bennington Chester. commons.wikimedia.org
"And then I went to school."
"And then I went to school."
This story is about how the author lived with his siblings and grandparents in a rural area throughout their childhood. The grandma was a very strict puebloan woman who still had their traditional ties strong with themself. Public school was hard for the author stating how kids would look at him weird because of skin tone, and because he wasn't the brightest child.
History and oppression
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Another news article from the 90’s explained the ups and downs of an armenian band called System of A Down. Their band was very underground and underrated up until they decided to perform for an opening show for slayer. They became pop as of recently from their success as a small garage band. They weren’t very successful or popular because of the genre of music they were playing. Their definition of themselves seemed vague at times as well which made them a mystery.
Redbone
A news article from 1970 is about how Redbone increased in popularity for a short period of time because of one single song. The history of their band and how they emerged from the shadows. And how they rode alongside the “popularity” train. Redbone is a full Native American band which originated back in the mid 70’s. Throughout the time of them being together popularity wasn’t on their side. They were a minority group of people, many didn’t favor them for their talent. They didn’t ever try to be popular and they happened to be playing at an era in which rock was popular.
Joji
In my opinion I see Joji as a very successful artist. He had some hardships throughout his short time as an artist. Being Japanese as well as having a bad reputation. This ties into the diversity part of my topic, as he is very different from a lot of artists these days. The song “MODUS” found in the nectar album explains how he struggled to make into the music industry, and how being both part of a minority group and having a terrible reputation almost tarnished his chances of making it big. To me he is a hidden gem and an inspiration to me.
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