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COLLEGE ORAL COMMUNICATION 1

Web Power Activities
Chapter 1: The Power of Music
Activity 1
Musical Genres: When people talk about music, you hear words like
hip hop, reggae, easy listening, pop, bluegrass, country, classical, or
heavy metal. But what do those words mean? These are different
musical genres, categories.
One way to learn about musical genres is to go to websites that sell
music. At these websites, you can listen to music even if you dont buy
anything.
Go to the websites listed below, and listen to music in 5 different
genres. What are your two favorite genres?
Note: If you dont want to buy something, dont give your credit card
information.
Here are some links:
#1
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/1041511768-9919939
Or you can just type in http://www.amazon.com
HINT: In the Amazon website, go to the sidebar and click on Music.
Music is under the Books, Music, DVD category. Type in the name of a
musician, or choose a genre. Then pick a subgenre. There are some
featured albums that you can click on to listen to.
To listen to the music, pick an album. Then scroll to Product Details.
There you will see a list of songs on the album. Click on a song to
listen.
#2 Here are some other links:
http://www.putumayo.com/
http://www.cduniverse.com
http://www.cdconnection.com/bin/nph-main/z5T9iTKMnm2e.b

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Activity 2
Listening to Musical Subgenres: Within a musical genre, there are
many subgenres. For example, jazz is a genre. There are many
different kinds of jazz, or subgenres, such as Dixieland or Jazz fusion.

African (49)

Middle Eastern (32)

Jazz (426)

Rock and Pop (1307)

Latin (149)

March (14)

World Fusion@

Blues (166)
Caribbean (29)
Children's (4)
Classical (908)
Country (230)
Electronic (380)
Folk and Traditional (371)
Industrial (86)

Military (11)
Musicals@
New Age (7)
Novelty (23)
R&B and Soul (165)
Rap and Hip-Hop (357)
Reggae (78)
Religious and Devotional (335)
Theme Music (2)

Go to the link below:

http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/music/genres/
Choose five genres in the list above. Find two subgenres for these five
genres.
Also, click on the boldface links to the subgenres below. Answer the
following questions:
Which
Which
Which
Which
Which

genre
genre
genre
genre
genre

does
does
does
does
does

salsa belong to?

gospel belong to?
bluegrass belong to?
baroque belong to?
heavy metal belong to?

Go to the websites in Activity One, and listen to these five subgenres.

Which one do you like best?
To learn more about musical genres, go to the following websites:
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/arts/genres.htm
http://datadragon.com/education/

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