male narrator music provides a dynamic link with the past. Through song, ceremony, and ritual, music maintains tradition, reinforces identity, and serves as an important means for storing and sharing memories. man when you want to recount history, one way in which you could do it would be to just talk as im talking now. When you use a musical instrument, you focus peoples attention on the matter that you have at hand, and you entertain them. So you open them up emotionally. The music has a way of reaching people on a nonverbal, emotional level. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] [woman singing in native dialect] man we all have musical memories. They go back to our earliest childhood. They form a large part of how we feel about time. As our life unfolds, we connect the dots with musical memories very often. My momma told me, if i was good, so, in the personal sense, we stitch together our lives with music in a very direct way. [rock music] i dont think that most peo
Captioning sponsored by Annenberg Cpb narrator the region of east asia is one of ancient cultures and modern economic growth. In japan, people are much affected by natural events, especially in rural areas. Here, weather patterns such as the cold wind called yamase can have drastic impact on agriculture. In northern japan, economics and agriculture intersect as the Rural Economy has been consumed by the challenge of an ageold goal to make the country self sufficient in Rice Production. Early october in japans northeast or tohoku region is the harvest season. As a staple food, rice is as important to the japanese diet as wheat is to the western diet. For a variety of reasons historical, religious, economic, social and cultural rice in japan has meaning much deeper than simply being a crop grown on the majority of agricultural land. The tohoku region is practically synonymous with rice farming. More than a quarter of japans domestic rice output comes from this region. The village of roku
Funding for this program was provided by the Annenberg Cpb project. narrator music and time are inextricably linked. In fact, one of the primary aspects of music is that it divides time into patterns of sound and silence. This division is what is known as rhythm. Rhythm is rhythm is rhythm. In each part of the world, they have a way in which they hear and express rhythm. Dancing, singing, walking, praying, rhythm is the way we do it. [low hum and sticks clacking] [cultural music montage] rhythm is the temporal organization of music. Its how music is organized in time. It divides time into an organized series of moments, periods, durations. Without rhythm, we wouldnt know how to perform the series of tones. Rhythm you can consider fluctuations or pulsations in time. But forgetting the whole technical thing, rhythm is feeling and its motion, and rhythm hits you at your core at your physical core. Rhythm is probably the most physical element of music. narrator for much of the worlds music
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