The Multikulti Future...
More and more of the music we're hearing today is made up of multicultural groups, or even individual artists with a multicultural background.
Just in the last few days we've received an album of Czech music with didjeridoo and djembe; an album from a Chicago-based group that fuses funk and Bollywood, English and Tamil; albums from Israeli and Czech hip-hop artists; and a Latin Lounge compilation that includes artists from Germany, England, and Austria alongside others from actual Latin lands.
A number of such artists who are open to multicultural musical explorations have family roots that spread to many parts of the globe. And I just ran across an interesting resource for families raising kids in such a situation. The Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network "is made up of families around the world who are raising their children bilingually and/or biculturally. The group provides support and resouces in the form of a website and e-newsletter packed with content as well as Seattle-based presentations, seminars and email contact."
Check it out at www.biculturalfamily.org
One of the links from the site leads to a fun and useful page of bilingual vocabulary quizzes in flashcard style. Just how good is your Tagalog/German/Lingala, really?
Just in the last few days we've received an album of Czech music with didjeridoo and djembe; an album from a Chicago-based group that fuses funk and Bollywood, English and Tamil; albums from Israeli and Czech hip-hop artists; and a Latin Lounge compilation that includes artists from Germany, England, and Austria alongside others from actual Latin lands.
A number of such artists who are open to multicultural musical explorations have family roots that spread to many parts of the globe. And I just ran across an interesting resource for families raising kids in such a situation. The Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network "is made up of families around the world who are raising their children bilingually and/or biculturally. The group provides support and resouces in the form of a website and e-newsletter packed with content as well as Seattle-based presentations, seminars and email contact."
Check it out at www.biculturalfamily.org
One of the links from the site leads to a fun and useful page of bilingual vocabulary quizzes in flashcard style. Just how good is your Tagalog/German/Lingala, really?
Labels: bicultural, bilingual, culture, language, multicultural
posted by S A Stevens at
11:02 AM
2 Comments:
Nice blog. I have added it to my favourites, greetings. I love this great Louis_Armstrong song -
What a Wonderful World
By
Britney Spears, at Tue Sep 02, 12:44:00 PM 2008
Nice post. I came across the Bilingual / Bicultural Family network recently and thought it was interesting. I didn't find the quiz though!
So do you think there is more mixing of cultures these days, or do we just pay more attention to it?
By
Liz, at Mon Sep 08, 11:52:00 AM 2008
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