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We can just use this thread to post bits and pieces we find that does not necessarily fit in with our research but is interesting. I've just been cruising around the homepages on K-net and found this website. http://www.nishtv.com/node/2 It's an online aboriginal video/entertainment/news site that seems to be pretty popular with a lot of the young people using k-net. It is based in Thunder Bay and I think k-net is a supporter of it. I particularly like the Native Hip Hop Battles. Maybe when we get our own homepage we can play our own music. Has anyone seen Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" video on YouTube? It's like hip hop for librarians. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/whitenerdy |
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So, Fiona... why do I get the impression you're looking for an excuse to bust out you old Neil Diamond albums?? :P Even if we don't end up going down this road, it is worthwhile to note how intrinsic music is to people's identities. A lot of the content people post on their personal Knet page is music related. There are worse things to base a friendship on than shared musical tastes. |
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Ha. I'm more of a Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix fan actually, but I think sharing music could be a good way to connect to people. Some of the systems people were wondering what websites are popular with the youth workers and their communities. I bet YouTube would be one of them. I've found a lot of Cree and Ojibwe cultural videos there. I noticed that a lot of the younger drumming circle people in the videos on NishTV also seemed to be into hip hop, which I think is realy cool. I wonder why hip hop and rap has such a strong appeal to so many different people. In undergrad I read an ethnography, Saluala, about contemporary urban society in Zambia, and the author said hip hop was huge there. As Adam mentioned in class, some of the most popular homepages are the ones that give away music codes. I even found pages that had "oldies" music like Purple Haze and All Along The Watchtower. |