Untitled Flashcards Set
Bhangra
-origins in Punjab region as harvest festival dance
-incorporation of jhummar step
-instruments: dhol, tumbi, algoza
-development of “bhangra beat” in UK diaspora
-popularity among Desi college students in US
-compatibility/combination with hip-hop (dance and music)
Capoeira
-musical components of ritual (ladainha, chula, corrido)
-main instruments of bateria (berimbaus, pandeiro, atabaque, reco-reco,
agogô)
-history and relation to slavery, narratives of resistance, culture heroes
(Zumbi),
-“game” – movement
-social values (malícia)
Tango:
-role of immigration in musical/lyrical characteristics
-role of tango craze in Paris in establishing popularity in Argentina
-the “New Guard” (Guardia Nueva) and musical characteristics
-tango canción – sung tango (role of Carlos Gardel),
significance of lunfardo and la mufa
-bandoneón
orquesta típica and the Golden Age
-tango Nuevo and Astor Piazzolla
-post-crisis revival: Why? What’s new?
-Queer tango: what’s different? Why are dancers attracted to it?
Music and Alzheimer’s
Music and Memory Project: what is it?
Jennie Gubner: what was the nature of her class’s participation in the M&M
project?
Music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda
-Gregory Barz’s role in Music for Life project
-Kinds of musical interventions (i.e. what kinds of messages did music
disseminate)
-impact on AIDS crisis in Uganda?
Shoshone powwow:
-“intertribal” practice
-relationship to history of displacement and acculturation
-Flag song: musical concepts: honor beats, vocables, seconding
-types of dance: Fancy vs. Traditional War dance, Jingle Dress
BLM movent and “Black Mizzou”:
-Stephanie Shonekan:who is she and what is her relationship to this
topic/students?
-kinds of ways music mattered for Mizzou BLM students
-choir “Anthem” performance: who/what/why
Fela Kuti
-political influences, esp. mother and Sandra Smith Isidore
-Role of Tony Allen in creating Afrobeat “eternal groove”
-conflict with Obasanjo regime: “coffin for head of state” incident
-political ideology
-views on gender
Murga porteña and feminist movement
-musical components: bombo con platillo
-Strategies for “undoing gender:” Las Bombas workshop
Linguistic/racial identities:
-Cajun
-origins of term
-history of how Cajun people came to Louisiana
-traditional Cajun music:
-instruments: triangle, fiddle, accordion
-“turning the verses”
-“fai-dodo”
-Creole
-Zydeco
-origin of word
-main instruments: rub board, keyboard accordion
-role of Clifton Chenier in originating genre
Japan: National identity and karaoke
-kata: what is it in traditional arts?
-what is its relationship to karaoke in Japan?
-enka: when does the genre emerge?
Bali and gender
-gaya
-roles in kebyar performance: ugal and kendang
-reasons (real and attributed) for differences in performance standards
between genders
Examples for listening identification: (only responsible for providing the
specific names of pieces when in boldface) (all examples from Shelemay text
/website unless marked *=OAKS)
1)3 musical components of capoeira game: ladainha (“Rei Zumbi,”), chula, corrido
(Sta. Bárbara)
2) Jhummar – traditional bhangra rhythm
3) “Aao Nachiye” (“Come, Let’s Dance”) – pop bhangra (“bhangra beat)
4) “Mundian de Bach Ke” (“Beware the Boys”) – Panjabi MC *
5) Julio de Caro sextet, “La rayuela” (“New Guard” instrumental tango)*
6) Carlos Gardel, “Yira yira” (Tango song /tango canción)*
7) Astor Piazzolla, “Adiós Nonino” (Tango Nuevo)
8) La Biyuya, “Arde” (contemporary tango song) *
9) Bright Women Actresses, “Bannanje twajjirma/We have been invaded”
(Ugandan AIDS Education song) (Singing for Life track 6)*
10) Shoshone Flag Song
11) Kendrick Lamar, “Alright”*
12) EJ Harrison/U of Missouri Singers, “Anthem”*
13) Fela Kuti, “Zombie”*
14) Joe Falcon, “Allons a Lafayette” (Cajun fiddle song)
15) Clifton Chenier, “Zydeco sont pas sale” (Zydeco song)
16) Hibari Misora, “Ringo Oiwake” (“Apple blossoms”) –post-WWII enka song