Concepts
Practice of institutional control by one people over another people and their territory
What is colonialism?
Ideology or movement that creates nations where they previously did not exist.
What is nationalism?
Musical symbol of nostalgia and place-based belonging in Argentine nationalism
What is the guitar?
Also acceptable: What is the huella?
Double-row panpipe from the Puno region of Perú
What is a siku?
Musical event when all contributions are deemed valuable, indeed necessary, for the success of the performance.
What is participatory music?
Names the (un)intended consequences of the narratives of modernity; it is the darker side of modernity
What is coloniality?
An imagined political community that is both inherently limited and sovereign.
What is a nation?
Genre of music that originated by enslaved orchestra musicians in Java.
What is the tanjidor?
An essentially an oral musical culture (for the most part) imagining itself to be a written tradition.
What is "classical" music?
From the Latin taxare: “to evaluate," "estimate," "assess," or "handle" ; also related: Latin tangare (“to touch”)
What is taste?
A general process of auditory perception connected to
specific practices strongly shaped by culture, history, and environment.
What is listening?
A cultural artifact or practices constructed for the needs of the present, made to seem valid by the use of symbols, rituals, and ideas from the past. Indexes authenticity and temporal depth.
What is an (invented) tradition?
Genre of music that is almost indistinguishably from old-time music but which is presentational and intended for high fidelity recording.
What is bluegrass?
Genre of anglophone Afro-Caribbean music deemed political because it was masculinized.
What is roots reggae?
A particular kind of exoticism that focuses on an imaginary East
What is orientalism?
Strategy of identification that neither alignes nor fully
rejecting an (exclusionary) system of
beliefs.
What is disidentification?
The process by which a musical or cultural practice from elsewhere has been altered to fit local conditions and become part of local traditions.
What is localization?
Cacerolazos are tied to this 14th-century practice of shaming.
What are the charivari?
Endings in Western Art Music that cadence on a "weak" beat.
What are feminine endings?
Tied to nausea.
What is noise?
Acting that ignores the audience or interacts with it on a similar level, treating audience members as voyeurs
What is representational acting?
A stylized repetition of acts (discursive practice) that enacts or produces what which it names.
What is performativity?
A type of listening that describes a passive engagement with music
What is ubiquitous listening?
A practice that is intended to heighten and expand consciousness of sound in as many dimensions of awareness and attentional dynamic as humanly
possible.
What is deep listening?
All sound frequencies at the same time played
at the same volume.
What is white noise?