Research Paper

Last Tuesday, I was assigned a research paper for Music Appreciation. Basically we’re responsible for trying to learn about our family history and research what potential music our ancestors would have listened to. This is a very difficult task because our teacher asked for us to go ahead and write a paper of who you would have been 10,000 years ago, and where you would have been. I have absolutely no clue. I know of people who have actually tracked their DNA in order to be able to see where it traces back to, but I don’t really think I have enough time to do so. I might write mine about my culture and the music that was popular at that time. It’s crazy to think about all of the different types of cultures that there are because of how many people came over to the United States in recent years. There’s a lot of diversity and I find that so interesting. Overall, I think I might give my grandma a phone call this weekend and try to figure out where we would trace back to. I can’t wait to find out new information because this had never really crossed my mind. We’re going to have to present this in class this Tuesday so I really have to get moving on this whole “research” and type it all out. There isn’t a lot of people I could ask except for my grandma but we’ll see how this goes. Apparently a couple years ago a student of his brought in a “Death Whistle” and he turned out to be from Aztec descent. I thought that was so cool. I hope to find out a lot about my culture in these next couple days.