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48 Cards in this Set
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culture
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learned behavior - the way people think and act - not born with it, it's shared behavior and ideas
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field work
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concept when you go out into a culture - you get a lot of understanding from this
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Holism
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a generalizing principal looking at the whole picture, not just one aspect of anthropology - totality
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Relativism
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you want to understand music from the point of view of the performers
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comparison
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an example of music in one place vs another place based on era
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Humanities
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shares a lot with linguistics/folklore/art/music/dance than with social sciences
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Neoteric
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created from sources from the "old world" Asia
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Clave
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rythmic patterns of 2x3 or 3x2 can be simultanious or variations
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grass roots
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vernacular- ordinary music, ordinary people
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Pop music
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middle class music
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classical music
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for rich people and educated people
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Creolization
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result of neoteric culture of carribbean - asian and indian creole music originally in wedding ceremonies now sung by men (CREOLIZATION)
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West Indies
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E. Carribbean and Haiti
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Globalization
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global economic systems - economic connections between continents, spread of aggressive capitalism (Began with Portugese)
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Transculturalism
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a mixture of cultures when both cultures change
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Acculturation
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a mixture of cultures where the not dominant culture is changed by the dominant one
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transnationalism
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result of globalization - people dont just live in one place, many different homes
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folklore
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music heard in face-to-face setting, passed down by memory
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folklife
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activities/festivals/material culture that is folkloreistic - trinidadian carnival
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Vernacular
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everyday language/linguistics
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incidental music
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course music
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occasional music
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can become incidental (music for festivals)
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the folk community
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concept almost extinct - people create a culture and interact with that community for the rest of their life - small village life in europe before industrial revolution - maintain musical styles
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bricolage
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combination of two unlikely things - something used for a different purpose
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bata drums
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played in cuba
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timbales criollos
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look like snare drums
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shekere
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like maracas, corn/pebbles on outside and you shake it
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marimbula
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thumb piano, canon, box - wooden frame hollow opening like guitar with metal prongs
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baryo
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frame with skin and strings comes from w africa 3-6 strings
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Melody
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off beat purchasing of melodic accents
Call and Reponse Ostinato |
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Scales or modes - diatomic, hepatonic
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diatomic/hepatonic - 7 octaves
pentanic- 5 octaves |
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negritude noirism
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black arts movements in the 50s 60s in Jamaica and Trinidad
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nueva cancion
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new form of music for spanish speaking americans promoting social change
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grito de lares
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PR first protest song- rebellion against spanish rule and demand independence
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preciosa
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song by hernandez depicting the US as a tyrant
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calypso
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result of a combo of French and Spanish music representing people against oppression
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gangs
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groups of slaves assigned to a plot of land - verbal battles while competing to produce the most crops
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old brigade
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line of calypso artists representing trinidad and tobago in 1950s (growlign tiger)
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young brigade
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pressure to make lyrics less poiticial and more entertaining - brought way for steel band
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PNM
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peoples national aprty in trinidad - political pressure for independance
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mento
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1962 music with acoustic instruments, guitar, banjo, drums rhumba box
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rhumba box
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jamaican instrument that can be sat on to be played
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ska
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mixture of mento and calypso with american jazz and rythm and blues
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2 tone
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music genre created in England in 1970s- ska punk rock rocksteady
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rocksteady
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emphasis on bassline, rytjm guitar on upbeat
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kedhang
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traditional indonesian drum
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dancehall
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deep bass, women with little to no clothing on
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daggering
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in dancehall they go in aggressive sexual positions
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