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