You are about to listen to different types of music. As you listen to them:
1. identify feelings/emotions (at least 2) that each piece of music arises in you;
2. think of countries/cultures you associate each piece of music with and say why.
3. read Walt Whitman's poem and then relate it with the pieces of music you have just heard.
You, whoever you are (excerpt of part 11)
All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea!
All you of centuries hence when you listen to me!
All you each and everywhere whom I specify not, but include just the same!
Health to you! good will to you all, from me and America sent!
Each of us is inevitable,
Each of us is limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth,
Each of us allow'd the eternal purports of the earth,
Each of us here as divinely as any is here.
Watch the presentation below. It contains pictures from all over the world. They portray people, events, celebrations, sceneries, etc.
After watching it, accomplish the following tasks:
a) Where do you think each picture was taken? Justify your option.
b) What does each picture portray?
c) Create a caption for each of them;
d) Which background music would you choose to play together with the pictures? Why?
ACTIVITY 3 - Fusions
Task A - Click on the link below. Watch and listen to the Transglobal Underground project history.
Task B - Now, click on the link and try to solve the worksheet on what you have just watched.
Task C - What do you think about such a project?
Task D - Listen to Transglobal Underground 'Sky Giant' and say how you feel about this kind of music and how you characterize it.
ACTIVITY 4 - 'Where the hell...'
Watch the video 'Where the hell is Matt? 2008'.
Task A - What do you think? Is this video about dancing or is it about something else? Say what and state your reasons.
Task B - The poem you are about to read is in fact the lyrics of the song (translated to English, of course) that is sung all through the video you have watched.
Stream of Life
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and dayruns through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Gitanjali (Bengali poet)
1. What is/are the main message/s conveyed by this poem?
2. Explain what is meant by the title of the poem.
ACTIVITY 5 - The World We Live In
Now that you have accomplished the previous activities, write an essay of about 200 words focusing on the following:
a) What is the world we live in like? What is it made of?
b) Do you feel a true citizen of the world? A true member of 'spaceship' Earth's crew? Or are you just a passenger? Justify.
c) Art in general, and music, specifically, can cross borders, make people connect understand and respect each other better. How does it work?
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