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Important concepts
100
Punta
What is a song genre that symbolically reenacts cock-and-hen mating dance, usually composed by women, performed at all ceremonies, and involves call-and-response singing and drumming?
100
Bèlè
What is a cross-rhythmic drumming style developed in rural Martinique and accompanied by a call-and-response singing and dancing?
100
Junkanoo
What is the genre of folk music of South Asian origin that is usually sung by women for women at celebrations and is a source of national identity after independence?
100
Steeldrums
What are made from oil drums and tuned to play a range of pitches to fill roles of tenor, bass, etc.?
100
Syncretism
What is the process of mixing, fusing, and reconciling cultural elements?
200
Punta Rock
What is a popular music style that was developed by the Garifuna peoples from punta?
200
Santería
What is a genre using a batá drum ensemble where the drums are considered sacred and there are important rules and rituals that circumscribe the care, construction, and use of drum rhythms that provide a foundation for the lead singer to build on?
200
Calypso
What is the traditional French-Creole humorous song commenting on Caribbean life and assisted by drums and alternating in call-and-response?
200
Saw
What is literally a carpenter's saw?
200
Creole
What is a person of mixed African and European ancestry who speaks a Creolized language based on French, Spanish, or English + African language?
300
Rumba
What is the Afro-Cuban music and dance style derived from African sacred and social dance traditions, has an improvised lead, and has ritualized enactment of male sexual conquest?
300
Rastafarianism
What is the genre that was developed based on the mystic teachings of Marcus Garvey and has theologic/social messages linked to reggae?
300
Steelband
What is the ensemble of steel drums tuned to Western pitches?
300
Goat-skin drum
What is the African-derived drum used in rake-n-scrape?
300
Creolization
What is the mixing of peoples, cultures, and languages via colonialism?
400
Bomba
What is the Afro-Puerto Rican drum style that emerged from slave barracks in the 18th-c and is a dance drumming tradition marking the end of harvest, birthdays, christenings, and weddings, and the dance is a challenge pitting dancer against skill and speed of drummer?
400
Rake-n-Scrape
What is the traditional Bahamian music played on accordion, saw, and goat-skin drum and is an example of Creole musical style?
400
Soca
What is the West-Indian style of music and a blend of soul and calypso?
400
Cinquillo rhythm
What is the central and defining feature of light-classical Cuban salon music?
400
Garinagu
Who are the people of mixed West African and Amerindian descent who settled along the Caribbean coast of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua during 19th-c?
500
Merengue
What is the Dominican dance music developed from older danza and contradanza with a narrative section and call-and-response section, and denounced as primitive by the elite?
500
Quandrille
What is the 19th-c French-derived dance for 4 or more couples?
500
Chutney
What is the folk music of South Asian origin that is usually sung by women for women at celebrations?
500
Obeah
What is associated in the Bahamas with folk magic and at times with black magic juxtaposition of Christianity and illustrates religious and musical syncretism?
500
Globalization
What is the double-edged process that globalizes the local and localizes the global and where travel and tourism have led to new music trends and new cultural practices?
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