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39 Cards in this Set
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Caribbean
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black cajun from louisiana, bahamas, south florida, english caribbean, spanish caribbean, french caribbean, south american countries
Hernando Ortiz - caribbean coast culture is different than the interier culture (True in South America) |
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West Indies
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Eastern Caribbean and Haiti - can be just english speaking caribbean
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Globalization - Transculturalism and transnationalism
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Global economic systems - economic connection between continents spread of aggressive capitalism (began with portugese)
transculturalism - Hernando Ortiz - cuban culure - correction of american views (herskavisk) "a culturation" - in a mix of cultures the non dominant culture is being overtaken by bigger cultures - but BOTH cultures change - mixture of cultures result of globalization - rapid communication/transportation - many people dont JUST live in one place - upper/mid class live in several places - loosening of boundaries - social and cultural units over many borders --- Trinidad - 100s of preformers who live in different countries but share the same trinidadian group (Carnivals) |
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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
Folklore music tends to be conservative with minimal change (it changes but people dont notice) |
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Folklife
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Activities/Festivals/Material culture that is folkloreistic - Trinidadian carnival - they make their own costume, steel drums - most are folkloreistic
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Everyday Life
Incidental Music Occasional Music |
Emphasis on texture of music related to everyday life
Incidental - course music occaional - festival music |
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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 in europe before industrial revolution - maintain musical styles
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Bricolage
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The combination of two unlikely things - things used for a different purpose (using a shoe to hammer in a nail)
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Vernacular
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everyday language (linguistics) - now here means music from grass roots - can be popularized
ex hip hop and rap - some parts popularized some parts not ex. Irving Berlin |
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Culture
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learned behavior - the way people think and act - not born with it - its shared behavior and shared ideas
ex music is a culture |
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Creole
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result of neoteric culture of the caribbean, you find your identity right here
fed by new influx of immigration asian-indian creole music originally at wedding ceremonies - men started singing it - CREOLIZED |
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Ethnic identity and folklore
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folklore is a means of expressing ethnic identity through songs, or story telling passed down by word of mouth
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life cycle rites
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rituals that show the passing of life - changing from one stage to another
hatian voodoo |
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PERODIC RITUALS AND FESTIVALS
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rituals and festivals that occur periodically- calle ocho festivale,
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Costumes
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Outfits worn by festival goers, trinidadians, mummers in England- found hundreds of years ago
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BUSH MEDICINE
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herbs used to cure illnesses
traditional medicinal knowledge and practices |
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MUSIC AND DANCE
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Mummers
Calle ocho |
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TRADITION AND ORAL TRADITION
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a ritual, belief or object passed down within a society, still maintained in the present, with origins in the past.
keeping a culture without relying on written records or recorded media |
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VERNACULAR RELIGION
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lived religion
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INFORMAL LANGUAGE AND VERBAL ARTS
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used in the youtube selection - Brother resistance
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AFRICAN INFLUENCED INSTRUMENTS IN THE AMERICAS (8)
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BATÁ DRUMS (for LUCUMå OR SANTERåA IN CUBA), TIMBALES CRIOLLOS, MARIMBULA, BANJO, SHEKERÉ, XYLOPHONE (FROM BALOPHON), DIDDLY BOW
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MELODY
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“OFF BEAT PHRASING OF MELODIC ACCENTS,” CALL AND RESPONSE, OSTINATO.
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RHYTHM
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“MULTIPLE RHYTHM,” “SPEECH TONE PHRASING (“MULTIPLE METER”)
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SCALES OR MODES
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DIATONIC OR HEPTATONIC (7 NOTE IN OCTAVE), PENTATONIC (5 NOTES IN OCTAVE)#
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OTHER CHARACTERISTICS of music
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CUPPING EAR WHILE SINGING, RASPY SOUNDS, NOISY PERFORMANCE STYLE, RHYTHMIC TALKING, VOCAL RESPONSES DURING A PERFORMANCE, VIBRATO
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CREOLIZATION and examples
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result of neoteric culture - Chutney Calypso
BIG DRUM, CALYPSO, CUBAN MUSIC |
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500 YEARS OF CULTURAL INTERACTION BETWEEN PEOPLE OF AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN DESCENT AND OTHERS
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many people coming in - lots of interaction
trinidad soup - mix of unlikely ingredients like caribbean culture mix of ppl of african/european decent and others |
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“LIVE-COMMUNITY” PERFORMANCE VRS “STUDIO” CREATED MUSIC
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face-to-face is a lot less boring than studio music
you cant get the range in mediated music that you can in face to face music |
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UNITY AND DIVERSITY IN A CONTINENT OF ISLANDS
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spanish speaking islands
eastern carribean/bahamas/haiti - french englisha nd spanish speaking caribbean - DIFFERENT WORLDS family ethnicity - island of origin, country carricou vs grenate - don't like identifying as each other but they are categorized as both |
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CARIBBEAN MUSIC IS “NEOTERIC”
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created by sources from the old world asia - wasnt done in europe and africa
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RACE AND ETHNICITY
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races don't exist
ethnicity - cultural group of people you belong to |
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CALL AND RESPONSE AND OSTINATO MELODIC FORM
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call and response - melodic form with a lead and a replying voice- one instrument - people singing, a person or chorus etc big in africa and caribbean
ostinato - phrase is repeated over and over sometimes with small canges - found in caribbean music and 1980 music |
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MUSIC, SEX, AND SEXISM
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popular caribean msuic entertains males
most is sexist minority of women singers - female version of macho stance or feminine approach sex has to do with power but it can be a metaphor double entendre |
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MUSIC AND POLITICS
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revolutionary ideas found in lyrics
colonial era= anti colonial songs talk about changing system and abolishing slavery trinidad outlawed church talk about identity and nationalism |
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CLAVE AS A GROUP OF RHYTHMIC PATTERNS AND CREATIVITY
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a beat 2x3 or 3x2 - simultanious or variations
root of rock and rap subtle variations CREATIVITY - name of game for caribbean music |
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FROM “ROOTS,” TO “POP,” TO “CLASSICAL”
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grass roots - vernacular - ordinary music and people
pop- middle class music classical - educated and rich cuba spain puerto rico jamaica - find classical music tratidion |
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THE IMPORTANCE OF RITUAL MUSIC TO CARIBBEAN POPULAR MUSIC
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many styles begin with religion
someone grows up in a chrch brings style of church when their older roots of style in church ex celia cruz |
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CREOLE CHARACTERISTICS
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result of neoteric culture of caribbean - find your identity here
creoles - fed by new influx of immigrants asian-indian creole music - chutney calypso CREOLIZED |
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INTERNATIONAL CARIBBEAN MUSIC
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rock hip hop latin raggae calypso
these styles are affiliated with spread of western culture around the world - popular because of the spread |
