African Music
African Culture
African Literature/Misc.
African Dance
African Arts
100
When the phrases of a solist are echoed by a chorus
What is Call and response?
100
Africa is considered (western; non western) culture
non western culture
100
The Harlem Renaissance writer of "The Weary Blues"
Langston Hughes
100
what an "egungun" dancer represents
ancestor spirit
100
a technique in which contrasting sections are put side by side for effect
juxtaposition
200
The name for a group of supporting musicans, dancers, or actors
an ensemble
200
The region of Africa where "Ghana" and "Benin" are located
Subsaharan
200
type of story often symbolic of a great truth
What is a myth
200
type of art form that Buzzard Walk is (music, dance, visual)
dance
200
Demoiselles d'Avignon was the first example of this stype of painting/art
What is Cubism
300
When a musician abondons the printed music and composes on the spot
improvisation
300
passing stories from generation to generation by word of mouth
oral tradition
300
a type of story that involves lying or deception
What is a trickster tale
300
the art or skill of creating and planning dances
What is choreography?
300
a small African scuplture which "invites a spirit to inhabit it"
fetish
400
the prefix added to the word "rhythms" to mean "many rhythms"
poly
400
piece of furniture thought to be the residence of the soul (turned on it's side)
stool
400
a sense of pride in our own particular race or subculture
What is ethnic identity
400
artistic style used to describe work of prehistoric or nonwestern people (or modern work with similar characteristics)
What is primitivism?
400
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was insprired by this African artwork
masks
500
a musical term that means that the accented notes come between the beats
syncopation
500
term used to describe the traditional West African sense of time (NOT linear)
What is circular culture
500
A type of African cloth made from strips of brightly colored cotton, silk or wool
What is a kente cloth
500
artist (weaver, sculptor, dancer, drummer, singer) that has the most power or influence in traditional African community
What is drummer
500
ideas or practices that are currently acceptable in art
conventions
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