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38 Cards in this Set
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Collective Expression
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African music performed as communal rituals.
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Polyvocality
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One voice, single melodic line. AKA heterophony
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Griots
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Member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.
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Kora
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21 string strike harp chordophone
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Mande people
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Major ethnic group of Western Africa
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Salif Keita
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Soloist who brought international attention to the kora.
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Seckou Keita
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Brought several styles/instruments together (drums).
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Isicathamiya music
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Zulu and Christian hymns and worksongs. Traditional/call and response technique/polyphonic
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African diaspora
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Brazil, Cuba, and the US wound up with Africanisms.
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Misconception in African music
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Drumming is not the main musical expression
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Fontomfrom
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Drum ensemble of the Akan people. A metal bell and 3 sets of drums (different sizes) played with sticks. Tallest drum "from" is the leader.
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Six Africanisms
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1. Polyphonic textures in layers/polyvocal (Zulu isicathamiya music).
2. Ostinato patterns (Mbira and kora) 3. Call and response (conversational) 4. Improv. 5. Timbre variety (buzzing, rattling) 6. Pitch systems and scales. |
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Kora and Jeli traditions
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Praise songs that honor Mande royalty. Used the kora, the bala, and the koni.
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Bala
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xylophone-type instrument. Designated jeli instrument.
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Koni
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Size, pitch range, and number of strings vary.
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Angelique Kidjo
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Modernized pan-African styles.
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Takht ensemble
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performs music for belly dancers
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Takht instruments
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Ud, qanum, nay, riqq, violin.
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Ud
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Probably led to the development of the flute.
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Tabla
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Lead instrument for dance music.
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Three types of Egyptian dance:
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1. Rags baladi
2. Rags sharqi 3. "Belly dance" (2 types- USA and other popular cultures). |
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Rags baladi
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Country style, folk dance.
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Rags sharqi
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Cario; oriental dance.
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Zaar
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Belly dance ritual; trance-like soul curing ritual for women (rhythms incorporated into belly dance)
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Orientalist fantasy
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Image of belly dancers invented by French and European invaders. Sexualized belly dance.
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Maqam
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Modal system
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Tradition in modal chanting
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Modes are associated with various life meanings. Fertility, vitality, femininity, joy.
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Ghawazi
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Dancers from generations of dancers; possibly traced back to Pharaohs.
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Egyptian film industry
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1930s-1960s, composers, directors, dancers, musicians became world renown and redefined nationalism in the Middle East. Self mockery.
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Gypsies
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Migrated from India and the Middle East in the 1500s.
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Gypsy religion
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Combined with Christianity but retained Muslim chanting modal qualities.
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Cante jondo
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Darker.
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Cante chico
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Lighter and more party-like.
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Elements of flamenco
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Clapping (palmas), guitar, dance.
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Letras
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Text sung by cantaores.
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Recordings in the late 1920s
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Tourism. Used as Spanish propaganda by dictatorship.
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Paco de Lucia
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Changed the world of flamenco guitar beyond traditional flamenco culture.
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Cante jondo palos (song forms)
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Soleares, seguiriyas, Tarantas, Granadinas, alegrias, bulerias.
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