This is a modern style of Indonesian pop/dance music that has Arabic/Bollywood influence in its name.
What is dangdut?
100
This is the prominent Rai artist who was featured in the text Focus Example.
Who is Cheb Khaled?
100
This is the term for South Indian music.
What is Carnatic?
100
This is a traditional Arabic string instrument with a pear shape and bowl style back and is sometimes used in pop music ensembles.
What is the oud?
200
This is the center for India's Bollywood industry.
What is Mumbai?
200
This Chinese rock artist is noted for composing the anthem for Chinese youth expressing discontent with Communist policies.
Who is Cui Jian?
200
This is the wooden flute known for its "breathy" sound and its use in many Arabic countries including Iran in pop and traditional settings.
What is the ney flute?
200
This Bollywood composer composed one of the Focus Examples for this category in the text, as well as the well known Slum Dog Millionaire film score.
Who is A.R. Rahman?
200
These are the rebellious women who contributed much of sentiment and musical influence on modern Rai music.
What is the Cheika?
300
This is a world renowned Indian classical sitarist who vaulted to fame outside India as a result of his collaborations with the Beatles in the late 1960s.
Who is Ravi Shankar?
300
This is a distinctive musical feature of both C-Pop and M-Pop music.
What is vocal scooping between pitches, soft nostalgic character, and string accompaniments.
300
These are male Bedouin shepherds who sang poetic verse and contributed to the traditional component in Rai music.
What is the Zedani?
300
This Indian dance style began in the country's northern region and developed extensively within diaspora communities, especially London.
What is Bhangra?
300
This is a song category from Japan that developed in association with karaoke practices.
What is the enka song?
400
This is the 2-sided drum that is tradional to India's Punjab region and can be heard in Bhangra dance and filmi music.
What is the dhol drum?
400
This is a Mandopop singer and featured soloist in the text Focus Example.
Who is Teresa Teng?
400
This music is often of interest to American jazz musicians who were inspired by its prominent use of improvisation and variety of string instruments with exotic timbres.
What is Indian music?
400
This historical event in Iran prompted the re-establishment of restrictive social policies, some affecting musical expression.
What is the Revolution of 1979?
400
This is a pop song category in Thailland that merged rural songs of rice farmers with American pop.
What is Luk Thung music?
500
This is a world renowned Iranian pop singer who sang in a Western style and later left her homeland to continue her career.
Who is Googoosh?
500
These are contemporary songs from China/Shanghi that blend Western and traditional elements and later were influential to C-Pop.
What is shidaiku music?
500
This is the Queen of Enka and featured artist in the Focus Example from the text.
What is Hibari Misora?
500
This is an Arabic pop/classical singer who starred in films in the 1930s and 40s and was skilled in Arabic vocal improvisation.