Art Experienced

Since I was young, music is how I feel, hear, and understand the world; the range of my understanding of music is as big as my understanding of the world.  During my freshman year of high school, I was listening to some music and came across an unusual song and was immediately hooked. As a dancer, I was used to hearing the same songs over and over, pop and hip-hop, with little variation. However, this song really got my attention in a new way.

The song was very uplifting, cheerful, with a drumming beat that naturally made me want to move differently. After hearing the song, I wanted to find out who the artist was and more about how it was created. I learned that it was an African Song by Culoe de Song called Nguwe. The song features Thandiswa Mazwai. The song is upbeat, catchy, and has great beats. This song is from a completely different culture in a totally different language; it was different than anything I had ever heard.

From this song it expanded my knowledge of a culture and one that I now like to move to and dance to. It added a new level to my personality and changed how I move and dance. Also, it had me wanting to learn more and get out of my circle of the music I knew. I wanted to learn more about other music and how it might change the way I dance.

This song reached me because it was something I already liked but did not knew existed. It fits me well and the type of music I like to listen to but I had never experienced it from this culture. This  came to me because browsing through music while working around my house. The artist was really good at hooking listeners; in the first two seconds of the song it immediately caught my attention. Normally, if I don’t instantly like a song, I skip it, but this caught my attention and held it.