Mike's Music type

 Music and Gender is a weird thing to me. When I grew up it didn't matter to me if I listened to a women or a man in some cases depending on how I was feeling I preferred a women. They have more soothing voices sometimes a good artist that shows this is SZA. When I think about women in music I think about people who have paved the wave for artist like SZA to be successful. A name that comes to mind is Whitney Houston. Whitney Houston was an American Singer in the 80s that was one of the most famous singers not just of her generation but of all time. In 2023 Rolling Stones ranked her number 2 on the greatest artist of all time. She is most famous for her countless songs like "I will always love you" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody." She is the first artist to have seven number 1 hits and she is the first women to enter the Billboard number 1. Houston is the most awarded female artist to this day. She was very influential in an area that is dominated by men she s...

I had been looking at several rituals from around the world but one stood out to me in particular. An interesting ritual that I found that is correlated to music is the Native Hawaiians before the were colonized and they were part of America. Song and dance were used as essential parts of religious expressions. Song and Dance were used in ceremonies such as marking the seasons of the year, death, coming of age, and healing from illness. Most of the songs were sacred and only were for that specific group in native Hawaii to hear. In 1830 the Hawaiian island had been taken over by a Christian and the missionaries on the island convinced the ruler of the island to ban the famous Hawaiian dance the hula. This was interesting to me because it was somewhat similar to the Native American rituals we were learning about in class and I think its interesting that a place thousands of miles away could have similar rituals and that the new people on there land would want to kick them off the land a...