Music is a good way to communicate our feeling and our culture.
Really is a non verbal and an intercultural language. Many times we listen music but we can't understand the letters because is unknown language for us but, we can catch the feeling that this song transmits and express..
I lived a very nice experience the last week, when we talk about music in the chat because I had the opportunity to know and still more important, listening music from China, Japan and Turkey.

I have discovered a famous Chinese female singers "Na Ying", and "A Mei"

Another Chinese student talked about some traditional instruments, one of then is "Ehru" and then we can saw the picture because the teacher put it in the whiteboard. It was the first time that I saw it.

I have learned about Enka", it's a kind of traditional japanese music. It's a sentimental popular music for the old people.
"Enka* is a Japanese popular song, in the "traditional" style. Enka music is composed largely in the Pentatonic scale, 5 notes per octave, similar to the scale used in Greek, Celtic , Gypsy, and some Eurasian music, and some modern blues and jazz music".

The musical genre known as enka**, which first appeared as we know it today in the early Twentieth Century, is considered by many to be the most “Japanese” of contemporary music (although its roots can likely be traced back to Korea and other parts of Asia, where similar genres still exist today). Not to be confused with traditional Japanese folk music, which dates back much further, enka songs are ballads that combine modern Western music with a distinctly Japanese flavor. Enka originated in Meiji era Japan during the early Nineteenth Century as a form of political activism. In 1874, Japan’s first political party was formed, yet party leaders weren’t allowed to speak in public, so they wrote songs and had singers go out in the street and sell copies.1 Enka is no longer primarily used as a tool for political activism, but this is thought to be the beginning of the lyrical form. The characters used to write the word “enka” literally mean “performance song”. The lyrical style is assumed to have developed from “waka,” a traditional form of Japanese poetry and folk song. Enka has the same poetic features of waka.

Ozlem, talked us about Turkish music.
She likes rock and pop music. She gave us the adress and we can know "Sertab Erener" and "Tarkan", they sing in English.

I will continue latter...