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Misc
100
This is a French cultural custom brought to Trinidad that involves music, dance, food and drink.
What is Carnival?
100
This musical feature regarding tempo distinguishes ska from reggae.
What is a slower tempo in reggae?
100
This is an iconic tango singer who was influential in vaulting the tradition across national boundaries.
Who was Carlos Gardel?
100
This is a Latin membranophone common in salsa and played by band leader Tito Puente.
What is the timbales?
100
This was the ska group featured in Chapter 3.
Who are the Skatalites?
200
This is a large lamellophone of African influence used in the rural Jamaican mento ensemble.
What is a rumba box?
200
This is was a major record producer in Jamaica's ska-reggae market and founder of Island Records.
Who is Chris Blackwell?
200
This is a button accordion that is a signature instrument in tango's traditional sound.
What is the bandoneon?
200
This is the neighborhood in NYC that became a Mecca for Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians in the 1950s
What is "Spanish Harlem"?
200
This is a percussion ensemble innovated in Trinidad in the 1940s that has been used in jazz, rock, and Pop music.
What is a pan orchestra?
300
This is the term for traditional calypso with influences of American R and B, disco, and electronics
What is soca music?
300
This is an Afrocentric religious movement that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s that promoted Haile Selassie as a "messiah" figure.
What is Rastafarianism?
300
This was a common setting for tango performance in the genre's pre1900 period in Buenos Aires.
What is a bordello or nightclub?
300
This is the term for Cuban salsa that also contains additional influences such as folk, classical, popular, or even American rock.
What is timba?
300
This was a prominent influence on early mento recordinvs in Jamaica.
What is calypso?
400
This is the name of the Jamaican mento band profiled in the listening example.
Who are the Jolly Boys?
400
Rock steady, reggae's predecessor, is considered the product of this urban male cultural group in Jamaica in the 1960s.
What is the "rude boy" culture?
400
This was the innovator of "new tango" or Nuevo tango - a type of concert style of tango with no dancing.
Who is Astor Piazzolla?
400
This is the reggafon artist profiled in Chapter 4.
Who is Daddy Yankee?
400
This nation colonized Jamaica and Trinidad at various times
What is England?
500
This is the term for the song leader in Trinidad's popular song duels.
What is the chantwell?
500
This is a mostly instrumental version of a reggae or rock steady recording performed by DJs that would be influential on hip hop in the 1970s and 80s.
What is dub?
500
Of the numerous Cuban dance categories, this was the most important genre to eventually inform salsa.
What is son?
500
This is a distinctive rhythm that helps define reggaeton.
What is the dem bow?
500
This is a chordophone found in a rural mento ensemble.
What is banjo or guitar?
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