As a fresh university graduate, I am very much still in researching and studying mode. And, it does not help that my sisters and I regularly go to the public library with thousands of books and numerous about topics that I am very interested in. Also, being a future teacher, I am fully prepared to go back to school to pursue a masters degree so that I can continue to teach after my initial certification expires so that I can continue teaching in America after five years. While being fully aware of the seemingly inevitable, I have been thinking about what type of a degree program that I would like to apply to. One of the conditions of professional certification is that whatever it is that I pursue has to be somehow related to music. After some thought, I have more or less decided to pursue in ethnomusicology.
Ethnomusicology is a subarea of musicology. Musicology seeks to study music, typically through its historical, scientific, and physical application. Ethnomusicology seeks to study the interaction of people, culturally, and musicology. In the past four years and especially this past year, I have become so much more aware of my desire to want to want to learn about people, their languages, customs, societies, and especially their music. Ethnomusicology is the quite possibly the most applicable single field to these passions. However, if I could, I would study music history, Abrahamic religions, and sociology.
As the title of this blog may indicate, I have started (informally) “researching” some things for my master’s dissertation. I have been very intrigued by the history of rap and hip-hop. Not necessarily the music genre, but its place in history as a catalog of American and non-American culture for decades. While, I may or may not be writing my dissertation on American rap and hip-hop, but there is something to be said about the way that both have developed and been changed over the past 40 or so years.
While I may not have been alive in the heyday of hip-hop, I feel like I have been well versed in early hip-hop because of my father (grew up in New York City during the time hip-hop). I grew up listening to Michael Jackson and Charlie Parker, as well as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, DJ Kool Herc, Doug E. Fresh, and Afrika Bambaataa. I borrowed a book from the library, while it is not very long, I am enjoying getting more historical information about the music my dad and I both grew up listening to.
Happy digging,
Angie Moore
Prayer Requests
- Passing my make-up certification exam,
- Meeting my next funding goal ($10,000 by July 20),
- Enjoying my time at home, and
- Preparing for Training Camp.
Praise Reports
- We met the $5,000 funding goal!!!!,
- I have graduated university with honors (final GPA pending),
- My sister graduated high school, and
- I have finally scheduled to get all my vaccinations.
