{"id":456,"date":"2012-11-08T05:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/?p=456"},"modified":"2015-09-24T16:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T09:10:37","slug":"in-all-cultures-the-arts-are-used-to-express-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/in-all-cultures-the-arts-are-used-to-express-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"In all cultures the Arts are used to express identity."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we draw our current &#8220;How we express ourselves&#8221; unit to a close, I would like to offer the students in year 2 an opportunity to share a musical example of their <strong>cultural identity<\/strong>. This is optional and should not create any extra work in any way. Examples can be shared over the course of the next 2 or 3 music lessons, as part of our <strong>&#8216;Music and Me&#8217;<\/strong> time and we will continue to study musical examples from Thailand, Kenya and other parts of the world.<br \/>\n<strong>Examples might be<\/strong>: a significant musical instrument (or a photo or video of one if it is difficult to bring to school), a dance move or a song. The most important thing is that there is some brief thought or discussion as to how the artefact is connected to your child&#8217;s culture. It could be an example from a home country, a country lived in for a while or even a country visited on holiday that has significance.<br \/>\nI have shared my East African drums and instruments from Kenya and Tanzania with the students as they embody a very important part of my musical life, when I lived in Africa for 3 years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_461\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Kenyan-drums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Kenyan-drums-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kenyan drums\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-461\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">East African drums are an important part of my cultural identity.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we draw our current &#8220;How we express ourselves&#8221; unit to a close, I would like to offer the students in year 2 an opportunity to share a musical example of their cultural identity. This is optional and should not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/in-all-cultures-the-arts-are-used-to-express-identity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368812,689],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-year-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nist.ac.th\/elemusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}