Music Geography
The Caribbean country that gave the world reggae.
What is Jamaica?
The "negative space" or silence between sounds in traditional Japanese music.
What is ma?
An industry label that serves as an umbrella term for a wide variety of musics from all over the world.
What is "world music"?
MCing, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti and knowledge.
What are the (5) elements of hip hop?
A music featuring raw, minimalistic aesthetics that blossomed in New York and London.
What is punk (rock)?
A term that describes connectivity across national lines, often referring to the spread of business, technology, and culture.
What is globalization?
This music is a mix of cool jazz and samba from the favelas, most often played on an acoustic guitar with nylon strings.
What is bossa nova?
The most famous Japanese taiko group in the world.
Who is Kodo?
Marginalized, counter culture Jamaican youth portrayed in the movie "The Harder They Come."
What are "rude boys"?
The view that entities have innate and indispensable
qualities that define them.
What is essentialism?
Paul Simon was criticized for breaking the cultural boycott of this country when he worked on the record Graceland.
What is South Africa?
These syllables that capture drumbeat, stroke,
and pattern in taiko drumming.
What is kuchi-shoga?
Name for 4-part Zulu men’s choral groups that
took over from mbube.
What is isicathamiya?
A genre that inspired manguebit bands like Chico Science and Nação Zumbi.
What is Tropicalia?
The Japanese term for contemporary taiko ensembles.
What is kumi daiko?
City where hip hop, salsa, and the K-Pop boy band EXP all emerged.
What is New York?
The generic name for the South African a cappella music style of late 1930s to 1960 that preceded isicathamiya.
What is mbube?
The “old village” nostalgia that helped popularity of taiko in Japan, contributing to localization and tourism.
What is furusato ?
A term that refers to the consumption of other societies' culture and music, used to describe the cultural and political world of Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is anthropophagia?
The choreography of isicathamiya, which includes soft steps and kicks.
What is Istep?
The remarkable Tropicalia artists discussed in the reading/lecture all hail from this economcially disenfranchised region of Brazil.
What is Bahia (Northeast Brazil)?
This 6/8 or 12/8 rhythm features polyrhythm between atabaques and agogôs, and can be found in the both the music of Sepultura and capoeira.
What is barravento?
"This cultural hybridity, arrived at through the work of cultural appropriation, is part of what makes (contemporary) K-pop uniquely________"
What is Korean?
Three genres that show the relationship between countercultural movements, music cultures and the boom of the music industry during the 1970s.
What are early reggae, hip hop, and punk?
A term that describes Nuyorican identity, specifically how Nuyoricans navigated different identities and music styles as Puerto Ricans living in NY.
What is "in between-ness"?