10.11.2010 Popular journal vs. scholarly journal

Popular journal vs. scholarly journal

Highly advertised and very attractive appearances — very serious and sober about the topic and the subject that are talking about.

Usually easy to understand which helps to have variety of different readers — Usually read by students and scholars who are studying that topic

Materials are written by the hired reporters or the writers — Written by people who have degrees in the area they are talking about

Usually edited by the magazine editor — “Peer-reviewed” which means that the materials were read by different people who also have degree in that particular area.

 

Popular journal

Pro: It is easy to find and is easy reading. It usually contains many different subjects which might help the students to just use a few of these magazines to find their information.

Cons: Though it is published, it might still contain biased idea or view. Since people who write these materials can write what they desire to write and see things as they want to, the subject might be looked as something different. These journals are very opinionated.

 

 

Scholarly Journal

Pro: These journals contain very accurate about the subject that are presenting. These journals are usually “peer-reviewed” by other people who have their degrees in that subject areas. The journals usually refer to other scholarly journals for more information or for better explanation.

Cons: As they are written by the scholars, these journals are really long and boring at times. The information might be presented with the terminology that is only understood among the people who have studied that subject. These magazines are usually harder to get in the hands.

10.11.2010 Components of musical culture

From resources that I gathered so far, I was able to find components of musical culture to the sound of salsa music. I have not found a lot of connection between New York salsa and the components of musical culture, yet.

 

Ideas: From reading and skimming through materials, I found out that the salsa

• focuses a lot on the beauty which is similar to Western music which people from this region will find it very familiar.
• The music is usually created for the festival or to entertain rather than a lot of spiritual activities.

 

Social Organization:

• (New York) Salsa is usually performed by trained musicians. These musicians are trained for their instruments and voices depend on their instruments.
• Salsa is performed for different festivals and open to everyone. Usually audiences can dance a long to different salsa pieces.

 

Material:

• There are usually instruments like: piano, drum sets, and claves are  used. There are microphones and amplifier if the performance is really big.

 

Activities:

• Most of salsa music can have the audiences to dance along with the music.
• The musicians/performers usually have their feet to move in certain motion while they are singing.
• Audiences can clap along with the piece.

 

I still have to get into more of New York Salsa. A lot of information that I found are focused on the root of Salsa which are Cuba and Peruto Rico.