Voici, ma ville natale…Durham, North Carolina! J’ai habité ici pour toute la vie. C’est une ville de deux cent mille gens, ce n’est pas trop grande. Ma ville est connue pour Duke University, une des meilleures universités du monde. Bienvenue chez moi!
Here I am planning to share a little of my culture by beginning with my hometown of Durham where I have lived all of my life. Durham is a medium sized city of 200,000 people. Along with Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina and Chapel Hill, Durham forms “The Triangle”, a metropolitan area of about a million people. In the center of the Triangle is Research Triangle Park (RTP) which is the headquarters of Glaxo Smith-Kline, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, IBM and many other technology-based companies.
L’Histoire de Durham
La ville de Durham a commencé comme une gare entre Raleigh et Hillsborough, une petite ville 22,5 kilomètres à l’ouest. Avant de La Guerre Civil, Durham était petit. Il y avait quelques fermes, sans plus. La ville a commencé à grandir rapidement en 1869 quand l’industrie de tabac est venue. Les anciens soldats du Nord et le Sud ont réglé dans Durham pour profiter de l’industrie. L’agriculture de tabac a augmenté et plusieurs usines ont ouvert à travers la ville.
A little Zydeco Music!
C’est extra, Brian! Tu pourrais même rajouter un lien pour envoyer ton lecteur sur le site web de ta ville. Pourquoi pas?
Du très bon travail. Je suis très fière de toi!
Mme W
Hello Brian howa are you am Redouane from moussa Bnou Nossaîr and i am here to learn about your culture
Hello Brian,
Thank you for writing and for deciding to belong to our blogging family. I will be pleased to read you either in English or in French. You are right, music is not only a means of entertainment and communication but also of connecting people. Your topic choice -music goes into the heart of it all: how can two different peoples and cultures get to know each other well? What appropriate means would help them go on discovering the treasures of each civilisation? Music will. On one condition:if they forget for a while about all the clichés, stereotypes and prejudices. Do you agree?
PS some of your blogging friends have started the topic; i think it would be a good thing if we pay them a visit in their blogs and see what they have written. This way we can develop the subject further….
Hi brian,
thank you for the infos about durham and north carolina ,nice description ,i just want to ask you is there a special music (propre a durham) that durham is known by. sorry my english is not good ,en français je veux dire s’il y a une sorte de musique propre a la ville de durham …
Anas
I love the addition of the picture. Et je trouve la question d’Anas très intéressante…
In Durham, there is not one original type of music from Durham. However, every year there is a nationally renowned blues festival. Many jazz, zydeco, and blues musicians play at the old Durham Bulls baseball arena for about four days in the summer. Zydeco, from the french words “les haricots” or snap beans specifically in English. It is a creole music that uses accordions and washboards primarily. Today the music has been combined with African folk music, European classical music (such as waltzes), and jazzy rhythms. It is a really interesting sound and very popular in New Orleans. It comes from the French creoles in Louisiana and today’s zydeco is often combined with jazz, hip-hop, and rap. On my main page I have added a little video clip of a Zydeco regular at the Blue Festival so that you can get an idea of what the music is like.
C’est super, Brian. Il faut que les autres viennent écouter… Tu pourrais même mettre ce commentaire après le clip, non?
Amazed that is how I felt after listening to your Zydeco music clip. It is the first time I hear about this type I never knew it existed. I love the accordion.
I have learned somethIng valuable about how blues and jAZZ could stretch that far to fuse with other types. I am not a good dancer but my wife is. And today to celebrate with you the new year i INVITED HER TO DANCE WITH ME JUST LIKE ON THE CLIP;WE THANK YOU FOR THE LIVLIHOOD YOU BROUGHT TO OUR HOME.
YOUR BLOG PICTURES ARE SO INFORMATIVE.
WHAT IS THE PART OF FRENCH IN YOUR CITY.
BEST WISHES……………………….
hello
is the first time in my life i hear Zydeco music .i love it
I am glad that you like it. It is definitely a different type of music but it is always one of the most popular types at the Blues Festival each year.
hi brian thanks for this informations it’s very intersting to me and to MBN go on you are the best ……………………………………………….++
hi brian
can you tell us wath do you learn about musique
Since I was about five I have been learning music theory (notes, clefs, time signature, etc.) so I have always been really interested. I grew up listening to my parent’s record’s from the 70’s and ever since I have been a lover of music. Nowadays, I try to focus more on listening to all different types of music, rock, rap, ballads, foreign language, country, folk, etc. Je pense que la musique a beacoup a nous offir et je veux voir tout! La page d’Anas m’a introduit a la musique gnawa. J’ai jamais entendu parler de la musique gnawa avant de vister cette page. Je vais l’ecouter dans le futur proche et je pense que je l’aimerai bien. Par la musique j’ai appris des cultures de chaque continent et je sais que la musique m’enseignera plus, si je la laisse.