Apr192013

Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife

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Apr192013

Avenged Sevenfold - Scream

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Apr172013

Rock and roll

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Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, jump blues, country, jazz, and gospel music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records...

Apr022013

Qasida

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The qaṣīdaᵗ (also spelled qaṣīda; in Arabic: قصيدة, plural qasā'id, قــصــائـد; in Persian: قصیده or چكامه, chakameh), is a form of lyric poetry that originated in preIslamic Arabia. Well known qasā'id include the Qasida Burda ("Poem of the Mantle") by Imam al-Busiri and Ibn Arabi's classic collection "The Interpreter of Desires". The classic form of qasida maintains a single...

Apr022013

Jaipongan

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Jaipongan, also known as Jaipong, is a popular traditional dance of Sundanese people, West Java, Indonesia. The dance was created by Gugum Gumbira, based on traditional Sundanese Ketuk Tilu music and Pencak Silat movements. Background In 1961, Indonesian President Sukarno prohibited rock and roll and other western genres of music, and challenged Indonesian musicians to revive...

Apr022013

Tembang Sunda

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Apr022013

Sasando

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Sasando is a harp-like traditional music string instrument native of Rote Island of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The name ”sasando” is derived from Rote dialect ”sasandu” means "vibrating" or "sounded instrument". It is believed that the sasando has already been known to the Rote people since the 7th century. The main part of the sasando is a bamboo tube that serves...

Apr012013

Kulintang

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Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago—the Southern...