World Music WebQuest

From the City to the Jungle: Experiencing Foreign Culture & Music

Introduction
For this project, you get to be a music historian who travels to a foreign land to obtain hands on information about their culture and music.
Task
You are a music historian. You will travel to a foreign land to learn about their culture and their music. You will document your journey on your laptop with daily entries. After you return home, your boss wants a digital book with lots of pictures, videos, audio (music/sounds) as well as text about your findings.
Process
  1. Step one: After selecting your land from the list below, begin preliminary research by visitingNational Geographic(type in the name of your destination and read at least 3 articles about the culture) Write down your findings in your journal label as "Day 1"
Albania Australia Brazil
China Cuba Greece
India Indonesia Ireland
Jamaica Japan Nigeria
Senegal South Africa Turkey
  1. Steptwo: Preliminary research continues with researching your culture's music by visiting World Music. ( Under Music A-Z Regions select the region that best fits your destination. Read and listen about the music. Write down all of your findings in your journal label as "Day 2"
  2. Step three: You have arrived at your destination. You start the evening by visiting the "cultural hub." Here you listen to various people performing their native music. By the end of the night, you listened to 7 groups overall. Before retiring for the evening, you wrote down all of your observations on "Day 3" of your journal.
  3. Step four: Today, you get to interact with some of the local people, specifically, the local instrument maker. He shows you all the various instruments you saw the night before and many more. Also, he plays them for you and provided a brief history of each instrument. As you spent time with him, you wrote everything down in your journal under "Day 4"
  4. Step five: Before you go home, you got to see some traditional performances at the local festival. You took notes here as well under "Day 5"
  5. Step six: Upon your trip home, you began to work on your digital book that included findings from your journal as well as recordings, videos, and pictures that you had taken from the places you went (Go back to the places for this information).