Introduction

Hey everyone,
My name is Andrea Parada and I love music. Even though I don't play any instruments myself, I am constantly listening to music and have seen several of my favorite bands in concert. Yes, I sing in the car and the shower. I pretty much enjoy all types of music and perceive it as a great form of expression. I have traveled to various locations in Mexico and have actually seen several cultural performances. I really enjoyed these performances because they seemed to say so much about the performers and their cultures and history. Their dress was astounding and I really enjoyed observing a performance so different from those concerts which I attend at home. These performances were especially interesting to me because much of my family is Mexican and I therefore feel that they say something about who I am. I also participated in a greek festival last year and found that for them, music inevitably calls for dancing. This was not what I had hoped for and the steps to the dances were so complicated that I was looking at other people's feet the entire time. In the end though I had a good time and that is why I am taking this class. I want to learn about different cultures and their music. I feel that by studying the music of other cultures I will be better able to understand and appreciate the world we're living in.