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75 Cards in this Set
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Emmanuel Road - Echo Minott
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work song
reggae/ska |
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Roaring Lion - Papa Chunks
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reggae
calypso |
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Culture
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learned behavior
the way people think and act shared behavior and ideas Music is a culture |
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field work
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we get a lot of understanding from this
Prof hill - 1951 left country for 10 years common affilliation with lomack Hill - how music fits with the culture |
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Holism
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generalizing principal
look at music through which you can understand a culture pattern/culture trait standing for totality - system of interrellated parts when music changes, culture changes Canaries in mines |
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Holism - catholic
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19th century hymns in 70s 80s churches - music more in sync with secular music
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One thing leads to another holism
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keeps tying new ideas and jumping around
cuban oporetta the way you understand a language - emersion and understanding |
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Relativism
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you want to understand music from the POV of the preformers, listeners or culture
everyone participating - listeners are singers and audience face-to-face music Control your bias |
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Place Purpose Genre
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self-explanatory
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COmparison
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music in one place vs same music in another place
music based on era diferent music in different places recorded vs face-to-face music |
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The humanities
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shares a lot with linguistics, folklore, art music and dance than with social sciences
data is scientific fieldwork is scientific |
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Trinidad soup
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Mix of unlikely ingredients like the caribbean culture
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Themes - 500 years of cultural interaction
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many people coming in/ many interactions
trinidad soup - Mix of unlikely ingredients like the caribbean culture mix of people of african/european decent and others |
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Themes - Live community vs Studio
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live community - preferred
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Themes - unity and diversity in a continent of island
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spanish speaking islands
eastern caribbean/bahamas/haiti - french english and spanish speaking caribbean - diff worlds carriacou vs granata - dont like identifying as eachother but they are categorized as both |
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Themes - carribean music is neoteric
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created by sources from the "Old World" (Africa, europe)
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Themes - Race/Ethnicity
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races don't exist
Ethnicity - cultural group of people you belong to |
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Song - Lord Invader New York Subway
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calypso
Rupert Grant goes out in Brooklyn and tries to get to Harlem - problems getting around, he asks for advice "drop" - picking someone up 1948 - 1950 says "Girls" not "jews" |
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Neoteric
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People coming to a place they're not indiginous to and they form a new culture
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Themes 2 - Call and Response
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melodic form with a lead and replying voice
big in AFRICa and caribbean |
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Themes 2 - ostinato
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phrase is repeated over and over sometimes with small changes - found in caribbean music and 1980 music
Phil Glass - writes minimalist music - ostinato - uses themes that vary |
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Themes 2 - Music, Sex and Sexism
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popular caribbean music entertainers - male
most caribbean music is sexist minority of women singers sex - has to do with power - another layer - sex is a metaphor for other issues (polit/econ/social implication) |
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Themes 2 - Music Sex and Sexism - Kitch
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kitch - hidden meaning
talked indirectly about sex 1969-PP69 lisence plate |
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Themes 2 - Music Sex and Sexism - Jimmy Rodgers
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"Im gonna get me a pistol long as i am tall" double entendre - painful cry for justice
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Themes 2 - Music and Politics
Revolutionary Era COlonial Era |
Revolutionary Ideas - found in west indian song lyrics
Colonial era - anti-colonial songs - they were banned in english and french caribbean Talked about chainging the system, abolishing slavery Trinidad - outlawed church About Identity and Nationalism |
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Song - Cecelia Cruz - A Todos Mis amigos - 1953 - (Music and Politics)
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Brassy then call/Response
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Themes 2 - Clave as a group Rythmic patterns and creativity
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Clave - a beat - can be 2x3, 3x2
Root of Rock and Rap subtle variations - creativity name of game for caribbean music electronis instrument - jumpier |
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Themes 2 - From "Roots" to "Pop" to "Classical"
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grass roots - vernacular - ordinary music, ordinary people - came from small town life
popular middle class music classical - educated and rich people they feed into each other constantly Cuba, Spain, Puerto Rico, Jam - find classical music tradition |
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Themes 2 - important of ritual music to Caribbean pop music and example
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Many styles begin with religion
Someone grows up in a church - brings style of church when you get older - roots of style in church - Cecilia Cruz |
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Themes 2 - Creole Characteristics
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Result of neoteric culture of caribbean - find your identity riht here
Creoles - fed by new influx of immigration Asian-Indian creole music - chutney calypso - originally women wedding ceremonies - men started singing it - Creolized |
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Themes 2 - International Characteristics of Caribbean Music
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Rock, Hip Hop, Latin, Raeggae, Calypso
styles affiliated with spread of western culture around the world |
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Song - Juliana - Lionel Pelasco
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Antilles music, traditional carricou
modern Piano piece for guitar played in carricou, venezuela, curocao Classical european ballroom music different musical trains style ABC ABCD used by Chopin |
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Song - Emanuel Road - Echo Minott
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Reggae
Vernacular grassroots |
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Song - Adieu Madras Adieu Foulard - John Max
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late 1700s
pop music version of folksong mulatta - ideal women in caribbean offspring of African american woman and european male controversial - comes out of french mid class estate owner - goes to martinique - has a slave mistress but must go back to france Unequal relationships |
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Song - Seis con Decima - Ramito -
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Grass roots
old spanish style afro spanish north american influence muslim line - starts high goes low |
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Definitions - Caribbean, Hernando Ortiz
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Black cajun from luisiana, bahamas, south florida, english caribbean, spanish caribbean, french caribbean and south american countries
Ortiz - cuban anthropologist "latin american scholar" - use language as grouping instead of culture caribbean coast culture different than interior (South America) |
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Definitions - West Indies
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eastern caribbean and Haiti - can be just english speaking eastern caribbean
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Definitions - Globalization
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global economic systems - economic connection between continents - spread of aggressive capitalism (Began with portugese)
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Definitions - Globalization - Transculturalism
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Hernando Ortiz - cuban culture - correction of american views (Herskavisk) "a culturation" in a mix of cultures the non dominant culture - smaller cultures being overtaken by bigger cultures - it is a acculturation but both cultures change
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Definitions - Globalization - transnationalism
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result of globalization - rapid communication/transportation - many people don't just live in one place
mid/upper class - live in several countries loosening of national boundaries and existing of social/cultural units over many borders |
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Definitions - Globalization - transnationalism - Trinidad
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100s of preformers (MC/Comedian) live in different countries but share a trinidadian group - carnivals
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Definitions - Folklore
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music heard in face to face setting passed down by memory
Now another kind of pop - mediated music with folklore root - many types of music came from this root |
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Definitions - Folklife
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Activities/Festivals/Material culture that is folkloreistic - trinidadian carnival - they make their own costume, steel drum - most are folkloreistic
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Definition - Vernacular
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everyday language (linguistics) now here means music from grassroots can be popularized
ex hip hop/rap can be popularized, some parts popularized IRVING BERLIN |
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Definition - Everyday life
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emphasis on texture of music related to everyday life - we listen to two types of music incidental and occasional music
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Definition - Everyday Life - Occasional music
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Course music
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Definition - Everyday Life - Incidental music
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festival music
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Definition - 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 in europe before indusutrial revolutuion - maintain musical styles
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Song - Roaring Lion - Papa Chunks
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Bricolage - combination of two unlikely things used for a different purpose - product of colonial era
hes trinidadian won nobel prize |
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Song - Rapso - Brother Resistance
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2 black men sitting and preforming
btw mid class eastern european english and creole english basolet - deep vernacular language "Shame" - talking about only mankind to blame 80s starwars program man from trinidad-jamacian bible revelations |
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song - Bill Rogers - W Indian Weed Woman
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A shanto from guyana
vodeville early 20th century - turned into broadway plays famous in trinidad Harlem 1960 - apollo theatre vodeville Song depicts guy going to guyana, runs into weed woman, she sells herbs to cure you, not fruit like he thought |
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Song - Man Piaba - Harry Belefonte
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grew up in NYC - jamaics
first big time black star american with indian roots |
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Spread of Christianity
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through mystery plays and biblical plays
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Carricou's Shakespeare 1991
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king and other characters
speeches from julius ceasar powerful people - strongest in village practice between christmas and carnival tension between masquarades and police |
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Jonkonu - African american fife
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african american fife drum - british not american
militarian found in caribbean played at christmas and holidays masquarading ini guyana and caribbean |
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Jamaican Jonkonu
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wears houses/ships/horns on head
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Masquerad in Nigeria
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similar outfit to france (middle ages)
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Egungun masquerade
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God of death and funerals
when god in body, would police the customs |
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Song - Jelly Roll Morton - Maple Leaf Stomp
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caribbean music influences our music
popular among middle class 1916-17 jazz is originally called ragtime |
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Song - Lionel Belasco - Venezuela
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he's a creole
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Diaspora - African Influenced instruments in the americas
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Bata drums, timbales criollos, shekere, marimba, baryo, xylophone
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African Instrument - Bata Drums
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played in cuba for lucimi or santeria
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African Instrument - Timbales criollos
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look like snare drums
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African Instrument - Shekere
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like maracas, corn/pebbles in it as you shake it- shells on outside
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African Instrument - Marimbula
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Thumb piano, canon, box with wooden frame, hollow, opening like guitar with metal prongs and you tap the prongs
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African Instrument - Baryo
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frame with skin and strings comes from western africa 3-6 strings
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African Instrument - xylophone
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from balophon - frem french africa
also called marimba |
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Elements of music - Melody
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offbeat purchasing of melodic accents - call/response and ostinato
Fletcher henderson created "Swing Jazz" same toon different instruments |
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Elements of music - Rythm
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Multiple rythm - two rythms at one time
speech tone phrasing - (Multiple Meter) south africa talking drums - could change pitch of drums so it could mimic speech but doesnt mix with rythm of song EX - Tumba Curacao |
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Elements of music - Scales
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Diatonic or hepatonic (7 in octave) pentanic (5 in octave)
european style - classical octave africa - two notes (5 and 7) blues style |
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Song - Rocky Daquni - American Reggae Fever
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comes from S africa
newish pop song on youtube seems more professional |
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YouTube - Carnival Miami - Calle Ocho
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city blocks full of musical stages and international food to celebrate hispanic culture
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YouTube - Vodou Ceremony
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Mayotte - hatian voodoo ceremony dec 23/24
Feast for hatian gods |
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YouTube - Charanga Tipica Cubana
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cuban music
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Danzon el la ciuadela
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mexican music
dancing |
