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The dramaturgical performance art known as Gagaku
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"elegant entertainment"
-was devised to propogate the Buddhism in Japan. -theatre performances combined with mimes, masked dances and music |
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SMAP is
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Johhny's Jr, Japanese boy band
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Steel band music, otherwise known as 'pan' or 'steel drum' music orginated in..
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Trinidad and Tobago
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The instruments most commonly associated with the music of Cuban Lukumi religion
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Bata drums
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The Lukumi god Shango
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Thunder/Lightning..
Lightning & strategy -owner of the Bata as well as arts & music, dance & entertainment |
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The Swahili word Maafa
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disaster. terrible, occurrence or great tragedy
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The mbira is a plucked idiophone ("thumb piano") that is considered by the Shona people of Zimbabwe to be
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"telephone" to the ancestors
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The endingidi is
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a single string fiddle w/ a cylindrical soundbox or resonator made of wood or cow horn
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The lyrics to the song "enguuli mbi nnyo" contain a moral lesson
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don't let kids drink beer
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The Dagomba people of northern Ghana (West Africa) have preserved their history through
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music
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Sambanglunga are
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events where knowledgeable storytellers weave together intriguing narratives that can stretch from sundown to sunrise the following day and go deep into the history of Dagbon
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The dance Tora reenacts a history story featuring the first and only female Dagomba chief and
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jealous men scared the woman chief and tried to steal the crown-all were cursed and died= when women relatives of dead men found the bodies they bumped up against each other trying to pick up the bodies as they cried.
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For the Ewe people of Southern Ghana (in West Africa), drum and dance groups also function as
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funeral societies in which donations pay for the funerals of the members
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Agbekor is an Ewe war danced used in past battles against the neighboring ethnic group named
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Fon
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In the Mande culture of West Africa, jeli are
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praise singers, instrumentalists, and history keepers of the Mande culture
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The Mande jeli instrument kora is
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an instrument played by the hereditary class of musicians of Mande culture known as jelilu or jelis
-A 21 stringed harp with a calabash resonating pace at its base |
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The style of music morna, sung by the Mande pop musician Cesaria Evora expresses
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sorrow from pain, suffering, and loss
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Contexts for music making in Bulgaria include
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women sing, men play
1. seasonal labor (harvest songs) 2. religious celebrations (Name day, festivals, lent, X-mas) 3. Festivals (syncretic, sacred/secular, social/economic) -often tied to Ancient Rituals, beliefs.. weddings |
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The Nestinari festival in Bulgaria features ______ that prophesize and help resolve issues in the community
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Firewalkers
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During communist period in Bulgaria, music was appropriated for
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Party's agenda: a symbol of communist ideas and nation
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Seamus Ennis was a
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musician/folklorist who played a major role in radion eireann
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Sean nos are
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"old way" songs sung in irish gaelic
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ceili are
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informal social gathering that is normally held at a neighborhood pub or dancehall and involves dancing
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raqs sharqi is the arabic term for the style of dance often referred to in the US as
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belly dance
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Zar are
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healing ritual from which many rhythms and dance styles of raqs sarqi have been absorbed
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