Olivia Liopiros Musical Journey

     For this blog I decided to interview my mom, the one and only Lisette Liopiros. My mom and I do not share a lot of the same music tastes so I thought it would be interesting to hear from her. The first question I asked my mom was what she would say her favorite type of music is; she responded with "...maybe like R and B." This totally took me by surprise and I responded with shock. With this answer, I asked if her music taste has changed since she was a teenager. My mom said, "oh yes for sure!" She told me that she was actually really into rock as a teenager (to my surprise again), but that she probably could not sit through a whole rock song now. We discussed how her music taste as a teenager reflects very similarly to my music taste now. I then asked why she would say R and B is her favorite. She said that she likes this the most because she likes the songs and the melodies involved in it. I asked her if she had a favorite song and she said that she could n...

     Salsa is best described as a Latin American dance music genre. While it is described vaguely as Latin American music, its roots are believed to come from several places. Most heavily influenced by Cuban music culture, when inspecting the music you can see pieces of Cuban, Peurto Rican, and African styles. Most salsa songs are a combination of different elements of things like guaracha, a Cuban music genre with rapid temp, or bomba and plena, Puerto Rican dance music. Salsa is very heavily influenced by Cuban culture and music. The first “self-identified” salsa bands were predominantly Cuban and Puerto Rican. For the most part the bands started to arise in New York in the 1970’s.   The origin of the name salsa is frequently argued over as it is not certain where it came from. There are many theories and ideas but no one is for sure, and everyone thinks they are right. One theory of the origin of the name was from Ignacio Piñeiro’s song Échale salsita in 1...

In music, along with nearly everything else, there are these gender roles that say what women and men tend to lean towards more regarding style or taste. I cannot tell if my own opinion on what gender roles in music is accurate all the time or just what has been true for my own experiences. Generally I think of when we were younger, it was always the girls that wanted to sing; very rarely did the boys want to sing like at church or at school for a play or something like that. Also in high school, while I was never in band or theatre, I did go to concerts or musicals to support my friends, and what I noticed then was that theatre was very heavy in girls whereas band had more boys. Maybe that was just my school though.  Whe n I think of a band, I always think about all men. Very rarely can I think of seeing a woman playing on a band, and I could not think of one single all girl band so I googled it and only recognized The Go-Go's... which makes me really upset actually that there are...

     As someone who comes from a family with two very different cultures, I have been able to experience a lot of different rituals from those cultures. My mom's side of my family is from Cuba and my dad's side of my family is from Greece. I have been to weddings, funerals, church services, and just casual gatherings from both sides, and sometimes a blending of the two.      Greek music has this very specific... taste I guess you could say. There are also cultural dances that we do at gatherings like parties or weddings that are actually really fun. It's hard to explain so I added a video of some music and people dancing that you would typically hear and see at a wedding. I wasn't able to find the best video but this one works! In the video you can see people in a circle holding hands and dancing. This gets really exciting at big events like weddings when everyone joins in and there is a huge chain of people weaving in and out of the line under people's arm...

 Hi everyone, I am Olivia Liopiros. Some things about me are that I am from Athens, GA (go dawgs!), I am majoring in biology with hopes to find a career in the medical field, and I ride for the equestrian team here at Converse. I am probably the least musically-inclined person you will ever meet, but I still love to listen and sing along to all types of music. At this point, I would insert a picture of my dog, but I do not have a dog, so instead here is a picture I took of my horse that I think is really funny (her name is Darlin).   Isn't she cute.  1. Music I  Like Right Now:     My current obsession has been anything Machine Gun Kelly; I have lowkey been obsessed with him since my early high school years, but it was not until this summer when I got to see him in concert that the obsession hit its all time high. It was literally the best concert ever (Iann Dior and Avril Lavigne were also there). I like almost all of his songs and I think the reason ...