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  • BrownEngage

  • The Swearer Center

  • William D'Abate Elementary School/D'Abate Community School

  • Perspectives Corporation

  • Impacts

    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    This week, I actually finished all my finals on Monday, so I thought it would be nice to still meet with Myles via Zoom. For this session, we talked about calming music such as binaural beats and how the repetitive nature of the music induces a soothing effect. Of course we listened to a few live streams of this music on Youtube. At the end we finished the session by listening to some of Myles' favorite songs by Burna Boy to end on a more upbeat note!

    Gave 1.00 hour between 05/12/2020 and 05/13/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    For this session, Myles and I took a change of pace and looked into music that was not necessarily affiliated with any Carribbean or African nation. For instance, we listened to one of Myles favorite songs Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and we studied more about Kamakawiwo'ole's life. We then dove into one of the artists who I thought Myles would enjoy Abida Parveen who is a Pakistani singer who has some enchanting songs on Coke Studio on Youtube.

    Gave 2.00 hours on 05/05/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    It was great to be able to continue working with Myles this week and we delved in some more African Caribbean infused styles of music. We learned about artists such as Ce'cile, Bunji Garlin and DJ Foriegner. We listened to a variety of music styles from these artists and some of them were different that what we anticipated with less lyrics and more etheral sounding melodies. We both enjoyed meeting with each other and discussing our emotions about this music together

    Gave 2.00 hours between 04/28/2020 and 04/29/2020 with BrownEngage, Direct Service & Capacity-Building Opportunities
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    This week Myles was adamant about learning about music within the musical genre of "African Dance Music". It was a little hard at first to understand what he meant but we eventually figured out that he wanted to explore more about the Afrobeat genre. So we spent time learning about artists such as Tony Allen and Fela Tuli and what they contributed to the genre.

    Gave 2.00 hours between 04/21/2020 and 05/02/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    The Swearer Center

    It was another great week of music with Myles, this week we discovered more about the background of soca music which is native of Trinidad! We listened to music from artists such as Kevin Lyttle and Nailiah Blackman. Myles was a little tired this week and showed some signs of irritability during our session but I'm glad that we were able to push through and engage together.

    Gave 2.00 hours between 04/21/2020 and 04/29/2020 with BrownEngage, PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    I think that Myles really enjoyed our session this week. We went through Cuban history and culture. We went through the European, Taíno, and African influences of that nation. We also looked into the traditional styles of music of Cuba such as mambo, salsa, rumba, cha-cha-chá, and bolero. We also listened to music from big reggaeton artists such as Gente de Zona as well as traditional musicians like Celia Cruz.

    Gave 2.00 hours between 04/07/2020 and 05/02/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    This week we learned about music from Puerto Rico we started our session by learning about the architecture of the buildings in San Juan and then we moved into the traditional type of music such as Bomba and Danza. We then began to look at famous artists from Puerto Rico like Bad Bunny, Daddy Yankee and Don Omar so we spent the rest of the session listening to these artists' music.

    Gave 2.00 hours between 03/31/2020 and 05/02/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    We continued our virtual sessions this week. We continued exploring music from the Caribbean, this week we did Jamaica and we learned about the difference between reggae, ska, rocksteady and dancehall. We found some fun videos to watch that differentiated these musical styles which was very helpful. We finished the session with listening to some music from Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Beres Hammond!

    Gave 2.00 hours between 03/24/2020 and 05/02/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    It was really different to change our sessions to online, but Myles and I made it work as we met up for the first time since the shutdown started. We spent time talking about how he feels aboiut the situation and how he and his family have been doing trying to adjust to everything. Later on, in the session Myles showed me some songs that he has been working on the piano which was really nice and I was really impressed! His mood seemed to lighten after he showed me the songs that he has learned and even sang a little too!

    Gave 2.00 hours between 03/17/2020 and 05/02/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center
    PAL (Partnership for Adult Learning) Student Group

    This week we delved into the Carribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago. We learned how the nation was under Great Britain's rule until 1962. We also took time to study the different flags of the nation during the different stages of colonial rule and the nation's national bird: cocrico bird. We then looked at the types of musical styles of Trinidad and Tobago mostly calypso music which Myles seemed to really enjoy! I promised that we would explore more styles of music from the Carribbean next time we will be able to meet.

    Gave 2.00 hours between 03/03/2020 and 05/02/2020 with BrownEngage, The Swearer Center