China
South America
Arab World
Grab Bag A
Grab Bag B
100
This is the term for folk songs of China, whether they are work songs or courting songs.

What is shan'ge?

100

South American music tends be a blend of sound from Portuguese/Spanish, American/European, African, and _____________ influences.

What is Indigenous?

100

This is the term for the social dynamics enacted in the course of a performance of Arab music.

What is tarab?

100

This type of research is full of minefields such as resources created by individuals who are experts neither in practice nor in theory.

What is the internet?

100

Musical ethnographers must consider this aspect of their work, which includes securing permission to observe their subjects, to use images and recordings, and to clarify how their research will be used.

What are ethics?

200

In this exciting style of performance, you may experience singing, recitation, and acrobatics.

(Specific region required)

What is Jingju (Beijing) opera?

200

This genre of music features the Zampona (panpipes).

(country & genre)

What is Bolivian k'antu?

200

This is the name for the Islamic call to prayer, which is performed by muezzin 5 times daily.

What is Azan?

200
This is something you must listen to, in addition to listening to musicians and participants, when performing musical ethnography.

What is the music itself?

200

This high-pitched, trilling cry of excitement is performed by women in the Arab world.

What is the zagareet?

300

Jiangnan Sizhu refers to music traditionally featuring these two types of instruments.

(Materials)

What are silk-stringed and bamboo?

300

"El Aparecido" by Victor Jara is an example of what genre of music?

(country & genre)

What is Chilean nueva cancion?

300

This is the name of the genre more colloquially known as the "blues" of North Africa.

What is rai?

300

This is a style of Chinese ensemble music which features the suona.

What is Beiguan?

300

When performing this part of musical ethnography, researchers must really listen to the conversation rather than focusing on prepared questions or expectations.

What is interviewing?

400

These are the three main philosophies/belief systems of China, which influence most aspects of art, music, and culture.

What are Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism?

400

This style of music is easily recognized by the musical figure DeGraff is about to draw on the board.

(30 sec starts when she stops drawing)

What are sanjuanes?

400

This is the Arabic word for 'improvisation.'

What is taqasim?

400

This is when migrant groups move away from their homeland and continue to practice elements of their culture, even though those elements have died out or evolved in their place of origin.

What is marginal preservation?

400

This song from the Arab world is part of a wedding celebration and features a woman's voice blessing the groom, the zagareet, a male singer, a mijwiz solo, and several types of call and response.

What is "Initiation of Ecstasy?"

500

This group of people from Taiwan performed "Pasibutbut?"

Who are the Bunun people?

500

In Afro-Ecuadorian music, this is the term for the sweetness of the counterpoint created by the lead guitar.

What is dulzura?

500

This song was written by Rahim Alhaj in response to political oppression in Iraq and the need to feel free.

What is "Horses?"


500

This South American song features a diatonic harp player and a singer who also drums on the harp.

What is "Muyu Muyari Warmigu" (or "Please Return, Dear Woman")?
500

These are members of a particular ethnic group who reside, at different moments in time, both in their home territory and in different nations.

Who are transnational migrants?