Answer to Question 1
Latin America is a continent and a half with more than twenty different countries; dozens of different languages including Native-American dialects; diverse geographyAndes mountains, Amazon basin, Peruvian-Chilean deserts.
Answer to Question 2
Continued strength of Chinese national sentiment is seen in the overseas success of groups such as the Twelve Girls Band and its electronically mediated arrangements performed on Chinese instruments, such as erhu, zheng, pipa, and dizi. The musical arrangements otherwise lie very close to the style of national music compositions described above
Chinese Music/World Music?
63. In spite there being few musical features that are both uniquely and universally Chinese, what is the concept of Chinese music?
When Chinese people explain what makes their music Chinese, they refer not only to sonic and geographical characteristics, but also to contexts and usages of performances and to the emotional and social content generated through acts of making music.
Like the opposing yin-yang duality, Chinese music and life are opposed but inherently linked, and any account of the specific sound materials of Chinese music is necessarily also one of Chinese life more generally. On the second level of understanding China' is opposed but conceived in direct acknowledgement of the foreign.'
A diversity of species live within the soils, the ecology of which remains to be explored.
A rich diversity of life lives in and among coral reefs.
Increased amounts of "screen time" are contributing to decreased amounts of physical ...
Role of Factors of Production in Determining Growth, 1975–2009
Other Endocrine Tissues and Organs, Eicosanoids, and Growth Factors
Diversity of Modern Land Plants