HMong Pop Music in the Twin Cities
Indian Classical (Carnatic) Music in the Twin Cities
Filipino Music in the Twin Cities
Indonesian Gamelan Music in the Twin Cities
Liberian Music in the Twin Cities
Jazz and Improvised Music in the Twin Cities
Traditional Mexican Children's Songs in St. Paul
Lutheran Church Music in the Twin Cities
Japanese Taiko Drumming in the Twin Cities
Tibetan Traditional and Popular Music in the Twin Cities
Meet Twin Cities Musicians:
Local Artists
Learn about Twin Cities music history:
Timeline of Twin Cities Arts Venues
History of Immigration to Minnesota
Festivals in the Twin Cities
We have started this enormous
urban ethnography project by literally mapping the Twin
Cities, finding out places of interest (cultural centers,
grocery stores, restaurants, music stores, recording
studios, gathering places for specific ethnic communities,
etc.); identifying music venues (concerts, festivals,
community events, tournaments, calendar celebrations, etc);
and discovering places of worship.
But how does one map, explore, and document such diverse musical and cultural expressions found here? Needless to say there is
a huge range of topics to pursue - there is the possibility of learning about musical lives of recent immigrant communities
as well as people whose ancestors lived here before the arrival of the Europeans. Within each of these communities one can
explore a wide range of genres, from religious to secular, traditional to popular. Projects of this size tend to take a life of
their own and the order in which specific tasks are being done does not follow some predetermined hierarchy of ethnographic
importance but rather reflects the interests of particular research teams and often serendipitous meetings with interesting
musicians.
