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Welcome to a wiki exploring the arts in two dozen societies around the world.

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Country Profiles

South America Argentina? Brazil? Chile? Africa Ghana? Kenya? Nigeria? South Asia Indonesia? Sri Lanka? Vietnam?	This wiki examines the artistic culture of these countries with emphasis on the current pop culture and its roots in the local traditions of that culture. This emphasis is too broad to treat that many cultures comprehensively. The material on this wiki is shaped by the interests of the two dozen researchers, all students in the HUM 300 Arts in Society course at Medaille College in Fall 2010. Prinsenhof and the Oude Kerk Delft, Netherlands	Mideast Egypt? Israel? Saudi Arabia? East Asia China? Japan? South Korea? Europe Netherlands

Country Comparisons

So that the countries can be more easily compared, each country's section on this wiki has a loose but common structure: general geo-political and demographic information, timelines of that country's history and art history, reports on literature, visual arts, and the performing arts in that country, an analysis of an art work from that country, analysis of a musical instrument indigenous to that country, and finally an essay about how that country's arts reflect the tension between Western modernism and local tradition.

Your first assignment, to find geo-political and demographic data about your country, will produce 6 tables that I will put here for handy reference.

country	flag	pop den	area	HDI	LX	EI	GDP $	GDP pc	inc =	LTO
Argentina		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Brazil		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Chile		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
China		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Egypt		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Ghana		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Indonesia		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Israel		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Japan		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Kenya		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Netherlands		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Nigeria		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Saudi Arabia		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
South Korea		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Sri Lanka		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
United States		?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?