In my free time and when I am tired of studying I play the piano. On campus I play in Bobby Rodriguez's Latin Band and am enrolled in George Bohanon's Combo as well. I am part of no cultural groups and my performances are limited to the quarterly concerts required of Jazz Studies majors. Like everyone I have my own tastes in music, which of course change over time according to what am I interested in. I am very particular to what I listen to, so when I am in the car (which is not in LA) I am trying to get in as much of the music as I can, sometimes thinking and other times not. With so much available media though, one's own voice can be easily drowned out, and with whatever remaining energy I have I bring it to my rehearsing.
I am interested in Ethnomusicology 5 because it is a general education class that pertains to my own interests. Picking up the scraps of the remaining classes offered each quarter I have too often taken classes from departments I really have no interest in. I am using this general education class to charge my spark for music and to solidify in my mind an idea of how ethnomusicologists think about music. The furthest I have travelled to is Japan, and that was only for a week and a half. My only family traditions are my dad's CD collection, the piano in our living room, and the Ken Burn's DVD documentary titled Jazz.
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