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MUS 106 final exam

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music and migration (1)   Music travels easily w/ migrating communities bc it is portable and can be transmitted orally  
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music and migration (2)   Some musical styles are maintained when groups migrate; others transformed or discarded  
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music and migration (3)   Music making can embody and reenact the migration process as well as commemorate the homeland left behind -Ex. China/US and Uncle NG  
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music and memory (1)   Transmit memories of people, places and events  
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music and memory (2)   Commemorates people and events  
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music and memory (3)   Reconciles past with present -Ex. Orange Blossom Special  
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music, mobility, and global marketplace (1)   Music helps sustain and enhance travel and tourism  
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music, mobility, and global marketplace (2)   New technologies and performance venues give rise to new musical vocab and hybrid musical styles  
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music, mobility, and global marketplace (3)   Economic and political forces shape the transmission of music -Ex. Silk Road (African/Asian trade route)  
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music and dance (1)   Dance transforms a basic rhythm into a distinctive set of physical movements  
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music and dance (2)   Dance invites anyone to participate  
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music and dance (3)   Dance accommodates a wide variety of meanings, from recreational to political  
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music and dance (4)   Dance illustrates different views of gender and sexuality in diff societies -Ex. Argentinan Tango, Czech Polka  
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music and ritual (1)   shapes and orders the rituals that celebrate belief  
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music and ritual (2)   enact and convey ritual’s symbolic power and meaning  
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music and ritual (3)   empower the participants Ex. Greek Orthodox service; Buddhist chant  
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music and politics (1)   Music frequently used for symbolic communication in political contexts  
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music and politics (2)   music can covey official ideologies, as in national anthems  
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music and politics (3)   Music can convey what cannot be spoken publicly, giving voice to political resistance -Ex. Kathy Mattea; “I love mountains”; coal mining and mountaintop removal  
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music and identity (1)   Music can signify many aspects of identity, including nationality, place, ethnicity, race, class, religion, and gender  
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music and identity (2)   constructs identities of individuals and groups  
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music and identity (3)   Text, melody, vocal style, instrumentation, and body motion contribute to the performance of identity -Ex. Cajun/Zydeco Music; Ghanian music festival in Chicago  
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Bendu Jabati   served as the connection between Gullah Tribe and Sierra Leone; from Sierra Leone and was the woman who knew the song that was passed from Sierra Leone to Gullah  
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Queen Ida Guillory   -brother performed in band; came out as singer later in life -originally pop because she played accordion and women usually only play piano or violin -late 70’s started cookbooks named after albums  
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Paul Robeson   "Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” -classically trained voice -civil rights activist  
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Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter   “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” -Blues singer; talented musician; jailed for murder -songster = sang lots of different genres of music -informal, rought, loose  
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Ari Sandel   director and co-writer of West Bank Story; won 2007 Oscar for Best Short film  
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Pete Seeger   folk singer, icon in the mid-20th century folk music revival - “This Land is Your Land”  
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Kathy Mattea   environmental activist/performer West Virginia Mountains, against “Mountaintop Removal”  
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Jon Falcon   -first recorded Cajun song “Allons a Lafayette” with wife Cleoma -accordion player -covered Fats Waller's music in Cajun style “LuLu’s Back in Town”  
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Mary Moran   great-great granddaughter of the woman who first recorded the Gullah Song (Amelia Dawley)  
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Paul Simon   wrote and first performed contrafacta of Bach’s Chorale and put words to it called “American Tune” (covered by Willie Nelson)  
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Cynthia Schmidt   ethnomusicologist involved in researching the Gullah/Sierra Leone relationship  
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ud   plucked stringed instrument (chordophone) used in Arab/Middle Eastern music world; Developed into the lute  
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qanun   trapezoidal chordophone with 26 courses (sets) of 3 strings each - heterophonic texture  
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guqin   7-stringed Chinese chordophone, sliding technique (Jiawen's presentation)  
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“Amazing Grace” at a funeral   *music as memory *aunts funeral *song evokes emotion/memory  
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“Autumn Leaves” at home   music at home on piano reminds of dad  
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“Orange Blossom Special” on the fiddle   music passed down from generations auditorally  
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Music at a football game   importance of Southern band tradition during fottball games; often more important than the game itself  
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“Down By the Riverside” at the gospel celebration How Sweet the Sound   *importance of Gospel to culture *songs evoke emotions  
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The Non-Silicon Radio Show (Hip-Life)   *modernizing traditional languages with rap *remembrance of home  
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Backstage at the Youth Symphony   *connecting to orchestra although she couldn’t play it *behind the scenes  
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Music and Migration b/n China and the U.S   Uncle Ng; America not leading up to expectations “the Golden Mountain”  
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Steel band and the sounds of the U.S. Virgin Islands   steel band reminds her of home  
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Nursery Rhymes   music paired with education  
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Wicked at the Gershwin/Wicked at the Fox   differences between the same show in different places  
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The sound of djent   clear melodies and notes but simultaneous different rhythms  
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the ASO   *not having to choose between sports and music *connections between them  
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Music and memory: “Red Star Morning Lilies”   *written during Communist China *did not know history of piece but really enjoyed it  
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The Eduardo Tami Trio: a tango concert   expectations about Tango; less sexy and slower than expected  
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Memphis: the musical   enjoyable but facts about city were wrong  
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Dubstep   *Bassnectar, Pretty Lights concert *different distortions (wub wub bass) *“bass drop”  
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Music and communication: the film August Rush   music as a form of communication between people  
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The Dunwoody Chamber Ensemble: Carmen suite   violin sounds like human voice  
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The Ghanaian culture festival in Chicago   learning about different tribes’ music and culture  
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Java Monkey/Blind Willie’s   different gig settings; music as background vs showcase  
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Greek Orthodox worship   *ancient style *expected participation *blending of different cultures/languages  
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Diaspora   the movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland -Ex. African slaves  
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Bi-musicality   Proficiency in two different musical traditions  
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voluntary migration   movement of people into a new region by choice, motivated by an attraction to the new locale -Ex. Chinese migration to the “Gold Mountain” during mid-1800’s  
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forced migration   not a choice move -ex. Slave trade to the states  
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spirituals   A genre of songs, usually with verses and a refrain, which emerged from the musical expression of slaves converted to New World Christianity  
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maqam   Middle eastern “scale”; notes played in certain patterns and ornamented  
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iqa   middle eastern rhythm/duration  
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khanah   overture and 4 parts (khanat); each separated by a refrain  
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pizmon (pizmonim)   Contrafactum using sacred Hebrew texts set to popular melodies (Syrian Jews) -Ex. Mifalot Elohim (sounds like Oh Christmas Tree aka O’Tannenbaum)  
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zydeco   "the beans are not salty" - les haricots  
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maqam nawahand   Became popular after Syrian Jews migrated to the new world because it sounds similar to the minor scale of Western music -Ex. Attah El Kabbir (song)  
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layali   "oh night" - improvised vocal opening that establishes the maqam - "Attah El Kabbir"  
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muwashshah   A classical Arab vocal form marked by a regular rhythm and rhyme scheme and a three-part form  
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muyu   A genre of traditional Chinese vocal music whose texts deal with the concerns of everyday life, performed by men or women in public or private. Also spelled as muk’yu  
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structural meaning   theoretical meaning  
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mode of relationship to the experience   Focused attention (orchestra setting), unfocused attention (background music), or participation: (dancing, worship, musician)  
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medium   how the sound is produced is significant examples: Mariachi band, dubstep  
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intentionality   musicians/audience in sync -Ex. Tango musicians playing for dancers  
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Joe Opala   anthropologist involved in researching the Gullah/Sierra Leone relationship  
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Tazieff Karoma   linguist involved in researching the Gullah/Sierra Leone relationship  
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Bance Island   island off of Sierra Leone; major slave trading hub  
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Tenjami   literally "crossing the water" - funeral ritual of Sierra Leone  
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