GPM Exam 2

Globalization

The growth in international exchange of goods, services, and capital, and increasing levels of integration

Financescapes

International trade, international investment, credit cards, cryptocurrencies, tarrifs

Ethnoscapes

Immigration, tourism, diaspora, transborder work, flight from oppression

Technoscapes

Internet, mobile phones, devices

Mediascapes

Shared news worldwide, shared entertainment worldwide, blogging

Ideoscapes

Democracy, nationalism, terrorist network recruiting, musical styles

Hook

A short musical idea in a pop song that is used to make a song appealing and to “catch the ear of the listener.”

Virtuosity

Outstanding technical skill in a performing art, especially music

Countertenor

A classical male singer with a range equivalent to an alto or mezzo-soprano. Includes use of virtusic falsetto

AABB intstrumental form

A form common in instrumental pieces where two main musical statements comprise the piece

Alternate tuning

Tuning a guitar or other instrument in a way different to the instrument’s standard tuning

Vocable

A non-lexical word or syllable

New age

A cultural movement that emphasizes spirituality, mysticism, and environmentalism as alternatives to mainstream Western religious practice

Free rhythm

music that lacks a consistent pulse

Apartheid

South Africa’s system of legal segregation based on race.

Isicathamiya

A popular music style from South Africa characterized by unaccompanied choral singing

A capella

A vocal performance without instrumental accompianiment

Mbaqanga

A popular music style from South Africa characterized by a dance beat, electric guitars, and a “growling” lead vocalist

Accordion

A portable musical instrument with metal reeds blown by bellows, played by means of keys and buttons

Riff

A short, repeated melodic fragment that is repeated throughout a song

Riff-based form

A musical form where a short, repeated melodic fragment is repeated throughout

Film score

Origiinal music written to accompany a film

Theme or cue

A short tune or rhythm associated with a character, place, event, or idea in a film

Ascending motion

Upwards melodic movement

808 (map)

Wakanda, Southeastern US

A capella (map)

South Africa, Ireland

Acoustic Guitar (map)

Ireland, West Africa

Asceding motion (map)

Wakanda, Ireland (The theme song)

Call and response (map)

Ghana, Mali

Flute (map)

Ireland (wood flute), Wakanda (Fula Flute)

Hook (map)

Sweden and South Africa

Riff-based form (map)

South Africa (Colonial Man) and West Africa (Ghana-Guinea-Mali)

The Story of Fire Saga film (map)

Iceland and Russia

Theme/cue (map)

Wakanda and Ireland

Virtuosity (map)

Ghana and Mali