Chilean Music Post #4

Question #4- How does the culture of the country show/manifest in your topic?

               Music in Chile shows a lot in the culture. The songs are based on realities happening in Chile everyday. The daily troubles, the pleads for freedom, the showing of social justice. Some songs popular in Chile are based on religion. Religion music shows part of what makes up the Chilean culture. Like in most countries, people play instruments to relieve stress. Bond with people they don't bond with that often. And most of all, they play the instruments in their culture to be closer in friendship with the ones they love the most.

-Tyler Rathbun

Chilean Music Post #3

Question #2- What is culture?

             To me, culture means a lot of things. It is the history of the important events of the country that makes up culture. Culture is also how the people living there are brought up from little babies to grown adults. Culture is what normal living is to one culture but completely different in another. Lastly, culture is how countries differ from each other and become unique in its own way.

-Tyler Rathbun

Chilean Music Post #2

Question #1- What is unique about it [Music] in comparison to the United States?

               Though many similarities, there are some differences. Through the research I've done via National Geographic website and Wikipedia I've come to these differences. One of which is the history of the music. The United States hasn't really had a big music controversy like Chile with the "nueva cancion" movement. Also, the United States does not have a national dance. In Chile they do. It's called the cueca. In Chile they have more solo artists compared to the US but in the US we have more bands/groups. Lastly, the instruments used in Chilean music are different. For trumpets in Chile they hand make most of them usually by making them out of cane and cow horns. They also have handmade rattles and a double membrane drum called the Makawa. Flutes in Chile                        

are also handmade most of the time and are usually made out of wood and take nearly 3 months to make a good sounding one. In the United States nearly most of the instruments, if not all, are made in a factory and mass produced. Overall, there are many similarities and also a couple differences between the two types of music. Shown above to the right is a Caja Chayera, a snare like instrument adopted from the Spanish.

-Tyler Rathbun

Chilean Music Post #1

Hola! Here is an 8 minute YouTube video that includes different moods of the type of music in the wonderful country of Chile. Also has some images that really show what Chile landscape and climate is like. Enjoy!
(Click on the words "Chile Music and Images")

-Tyler Rathbun

Chile Music and Images