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gamelan, new spain, north america, african-american diaspora, ottoman empire, louis XIV court, china
What is the “golden nugget” Appiah refers to in the middle of the essay?
Culture of Greece and Rome as a civilisational inheritance
Which of the options below most closely corresponds to Appiah's idea about how culture might be handed down. Refer to the paragraph that begins, "But the golden-nugget story was bound to be beset by difficulties..."
More than anything, the label or name is passed down.
Three reasons Appiah is skeptical of “Western culture”
The "Classical heritage" and values Western society aren't something people are naturally born into--even in "the West"; Both critics and proponents of "Western culture" assume there are essential aspects of the idea. These essentialisms do not exist in reality; "Western culture" is a relatively new idea
What is the illusion of “organicism” Appiah refers to about 2/3 through the essay
the false idea that the varied experiences of human culture are like parts of a unified organic system
Where did gamelan music originate?
The island of Java (Indonesia)
Contemporary gamelan performance is typically in a _____ setting.
Western
What is tanjidor?
A genre developed by Indonesian musicians who had to learn both European and Indonesian
The relationship between the Dutch East India Company and Indonesia can best be characterized as:
extractive colonialism
extractive colonialism
colonists invade an area home to an indigenous people and exploit resources, people (slaves) and goods from the land without a permanent settlement.
settler colonialism
colonists invade an area home to an indigenous people and permanently settle there, displacing indigenous people and conducting an “ethnic cleansing” of the area.
According to Kwame Anthony Appiah, “western” culture…
has no real roots in people who live in “the West”
The Mexica/Aztec people were colonized by
Spanish people
Missionaries in New Spain in the first century after colonization…
wrote songs in Nahua; found it difficult to get indigenous people to accept their worship style; made new Christian rituals based on the kinds of rituals familiar to the Mexica
The charango…
is a small Andean stringed instrument; has strings similar to guitar; is often played by indigenous people in the Andean region; can be considered an example of indigenized music-culture.
Lining out…
is a singing of Psalm texts from the Christian Bible; is associated with Calvinism/Puritanism; is when the leader sings one line and the group sings it back to the reader
Lining out is an example of singing in a style associated with…
Puritans in New England
Indian meter
a term English missionaries used to refer to massachusett and Nipmuck singing of Psalms in their language
One potential problem with the “Huron Carol”
it presents an undifferentiated sterotype of Native American cultures
Blackface minstrelsy… (4)
was used by working-class whites to lampoon “high-class” people; relied on racist sterotypes and stock characters; is best understood as simply an expression of white racism; featured white performers using make-up to make them look black
the cakewalk… (3)
included characteristically syncopated accompaniment; arose out of Black mocking imitations of fancy white dances; was performed by Whites who thought they were imitating a Black dance
Typical instruments of a minstrel troupe ca. 1840s
banjo, fiddle, bones, tambourine
The first minstrel band
Virginia Minstrels
Does the tambourine appear to have roots in the parts of West and Sub-Saharan Africa that ensalved people were taken from?
NO
In London at the turn of the 19th century, Black musicians were associated with the tambourine in military bands because
English people wanted to use them to evoke Ottoman (Turkish) jannisary band music
Turrisi suggests the tambourine made it to America…
with British military bands
Giddens argues Blackface minstrelsy… (2)
was modeled on traditions of the Black string band; is much more recent than we may realize
According to Giddens, blackface performers
relied on racist and false imagery of Black life to sell their performances
Elements common in early Afro-diasporic musics in North America (4)
ostinato, the banjo, syncopation, heterogeneous sound ideal
The reaction to the Stono Rebellion shapes Afro-diasporic music in North America by
making the use of drums less common in genres like the ring shout
Rhiannon Giddens argues that blackface minstrelsy
has music that is worth understanding and performing today
What are the two scale systems associated with Gamelan music?
Slendro & pelog
Name the two drums used in Mexica/Aztec music and their spiritual significance
Huehuetl - skin drum, Teponaztli - slit drum, both embodiments of divine beings who came from the Court of the Sun (gods)
Bernardino de Sahagun’s prayer book
written by Sahagun for Mexica people; Christian texts in Nahuatl and featuring elements of Mexica religion
Innu Shaking Tent ceremony
a spiritual ceremony in which a (usually female) shaman will shake the tent they are in and sing and cry to summon spirits and communicate with the gods
Possible sources for early African-American music (3)
written accounts (diaries, letters, notes, complaints); oral histories; find people who preserve the tradition
Define a ring shout.
worship/praise ritual practiced by enslaved African-Americans, often out of view of slave owners; dancing in a circle and singing repetitive refrains, induced a trance-like state, sometimes Christian themes, sometimes blended or secular
Define choreosonic.
music in which physical participation (clapping, shuffling, stomping) is integral to the sound
Kwame Anthony Appiah writes that there is no such thing as ______.
western civilisation
Which king of France helped to form the origins of ballet?
Louis XIV
What were the heritages of Manuel de Sumaya?
Spanish and Indigenous (Aztec)
Which European composer’s music was requested by Emperor Kangxi in the early 1700s?
Arcangelo Corelli
On the “first canadian christmas carol”:
Who wrote it?
What was it called?
What language was it written in?
Which country did the melody come from?
father Jean de Broboeuf
Huron Carol
Huron
France
Where did gamelan music originate?
Java, Indonesia
The origins of the banjo are associated with what culture?
West/Sub-Saharan African
Manuel de Sumaya was a composer in which '“new” European land?
New Spain
Which of the following musical cultures was NOT typically associated with court music:
Chinese
Ottoman
Early African-American
French
Indonesian
Pre-colonial Mexica/Aztec
Early African-American
The rare early notated examples of African diasporic music in Hans Sloane’s Voyage to the Islands came primarily from which island?
Jamaica
What is the name of the musical style that blends gamelan and European styles?
Tanjidor
Tragedie en Musique is closely related to what other musical genre?
opera
What is the name for the melodic system in Ottoman court music?
Maqam
What instrument is associated with scholar-officials in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties?
Qin
What was the name of the first printed book in North America?
Bay Psalm Book
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