The Weekly GB

 Hey everybody... *sheds a tear* it's our last blog together. It has been so fun reading everyone's blogs and I will certainly miss the funny commentary and stories. So, to honor our last hoorah, I have decided to send us out with the Inuit peoples of Alaska.  Now I know what you're thinking, what kind of send-off is that? And honestly, I don't have an answer, I just thought it was cool. So grab a blanket, steal a snack, and get ready for some serious throat-singing.  The Inuit people, or stereotypically known as the Eskimo people, are a group of Native Americans that live along the coldest regions of the Alaskan coast. Their culture is primarily based around hunting (there's not much gathering/farming because IT'S TOO FREAKING COLD TO GROW ANYTHING) whales, caribou, and other Arctic animals. The music of the Inuit is fairly simplistic, contrary to their southern neighbors in the Northern United States region (tribes that we studied in class). They have two drum

 Hello again folks, it's almost the end of the semester which means we are coming up on some of our last posts :( but it's ok, because this week we traveled into the Middle East and Asia! This unit is particularly fun to me because I've been to several of the places we've talked about, so it was very cool for me to put those puzzle pieces together.  To start us off, I wanted to talk about the music of the Himalayas, the infamous mountain range that rests on the borders of China, Bhutan, Pakistan, and Nepal. Commonly referred to as the the Tibetan Region, Himalayan societies are known for being secluded from the modern world and preserving historical traditions, much like the societies of the Andes mountains in South America. However, these mountain cultures have their own versions of pop and folk music. While that's also very interesting to listen to, I wanted to focus more on the traditional side of Tibetan music. Now I'm sure many of you have heard Tibetan mon