The Hornbostel-Sachs Instrument Classification System
Sound is produced by the vibration of a column of air
What are aerophones?
Ethnomusicologists study these types of music
What are all types of music?
Shelly Lares is associated with this Mexican music genre
What is Tejano?
The Ghost Dance Movement was begun by this Northern Paiute prophet
Who is Wovoka?
Runners spreading news throughout the Incan Empire
What are chaskis?
The instrument itself vibrates to produce sound
What are idiophones?
Christopher Small coined this phrase to talk about music as an activity rather than an object
What is musicking?
Sones jarochos are traditionally performed during this jam session/dance party
What is fandango?
Mexica (Aztec) rituals employ (and still employ) this idiophone slit drum
What is teponaztli?
Armadillo-backed guitar adapted from the European vihuela
What is charango?
What instrument classification within the Hornbostel-Sachs system is based on
What is "how the sound is produced"?
This research method distinguishes ethnomusicology from other studies of music
What is participant-observation?
This war was the inspiration for numerous corridos during the early 20th century
What is the Mexican Revolution?
A song-and-dance style that is also the Diné word for "gods-their-grandfathers"
What is Yeibichai?
Instruments in the Andean Altiplano depend on this animal (mentioned by Adrienne Inglis)
What is goat?
The piano's category AND type
What are "chordophone" and "zither"?
Too much of this renders ethnographies inaccurate
What is bias?
Sones jarochos are performed by this Los Angeles band to protest U.S. border policy
What is Las Cafeteras?
A song-and-dance style highly popular in Mexico and recognized by UNESCO in 2009
What is voladores (flyers)?
Instruments are important to South American indigenous religious rituals for this primary reason
What is "their ability to communicate with spirits"?
The maracas' category AND manner of playing
What are "idiophone" and "shaken"?
This is not inherent to music itself, but it guides peoples' interactions with music
What is meaning?
The inspiration for this corrido
Who is Adela Velarde Pérez ("La Adelita")?
The purpose of the ceremony in which this song is performed
What is "to heal someone who is ill"?
The music in this example is typically composed for this occasion
What is town festivals?