Show:
Clash of the Titon and Ethnomusicology
Bradley Speaking
Early Jamaican Genres
Reggae
Islamic Soundscapes
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Repertories of music is one of these:
What is one of the four components of a music culture?
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Some of the genres of music where tunes from Jimmy Reed, Bill Doggett, and Dizzy Gillespie were often requested at sound system events.
What is American R&B, blues, and jazz?
100
Sang and Harriott's "Lollipop Girl" is an example of this genre of music.
What is Jamaican R&B?
100
The instrumental parts of a song and the rhythmic and melodic parts of a song that are reused to make new songs are known as this:
What is riddim?
100
This form of sonic devotional practice is often a daily activity for many in the Islamic world and serves many functions.
What is reciting of the Qur'an? (essay #4, #5)
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Titon's term for a group’s total involvement with music - ideas , actions, institutions, material objects - basically, everything that has to do with music:
What is a music-culture?
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This became a liberatorian movement for Jamaica and included ideas about black people as a chosen people.
What is Rastafarianism?
200
This rural-like music genre is closely related to calypso.
What is mento?
200
Listening! This song is based on this instrumental tune. Name the song, artist, and the song that is its instrumental base.
What is "Bam Bam," Sister Nancy, and Stalag 17? This is dancehall!! Stalag 17 is instrumental reggae!
200
A soundscape (especially in the Islamic world) functions in these ways.
What is condition people and communities, reflect / shape identities, and organize time and space? (essay #5)
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For anthropologists and ethnomusicologists, thick description of culture, a music-culture or a music event involves these two perspectives:
What are emic (insider) interpretation and etic (outsider) interpretation?
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Bradley notes that sound systems were the "crux of ghetto life" making them active and vibrant in peoples' lives. He used this word to describe this.
What is cultural?
300
This producer, singers, drummer and song is recognized as having an early Rastafarianiasm influence and played a significant transitional role.
What is Prince Buster (Count Ossie) and The Folkes Brothers "O Carolina?" - 1960
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These are several aspects (larger ideas) of reggae (Jamaican music) that make it so incredibly popular and recognizable even today - these aspects really took off in the 1970s.
What are more explicitly political, more Rastafarianism, Jamaican popular music coming into its own (people point to rocksteady as the golden era), new sounds, approaches, technology, sound systems remained key (even today!!) - songs are still “recorded” for sound systems Prime example -> "Satta Massagana" by The Abyssinians
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The name of this man and what he is doing.
Who is Abdu Hafid and what is reciting the Qur'an to bless the food for all? (essay #5)
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People cannot agree on what makes up the boundaries of this problematic word, and its many different definitions make it difficult to use when describing people and their practices.
What is culture?
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Name two of the functions of 1950s and 60s Jamaican sound systems.
What is a dating agency, a fashion show, an information exchange, a street status parade ground, a political forum, a centre for commerce, the ghetto’s newspaper? short essay #7
400
Listening! This artist, song, genre, and year are significant to Jamaica.
What is What is Derrick Morgan, "Forward March," ska, and 1962? short essay #1
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Name one (there are several) sound characteristics of reggae that distinguish it from rocksteady and other Jamaican genres.
What are new layers of rhythm being interwoven into the upbeat; the staccato plucking groove of the guitar; lots of rhythmic parts; saxophone and trombone solos; the instrumental group is getting bigger (for the most part it's still recorded music, not live); economically can now afford more musicians, producers spending more $$ and $$ beginning to trickle in from outside; isolated ‘live’ presentations of this music around BUT sound system is key; a larger spectrum of sound thanks to technological improvements? short essay #1
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This form of sonic devotional practice is often given using this term for mode.
What is Adhan (Call to Prayer) and maqam? (a common mode is maqam rast) (essay #4, #5)
500
Many scholars of globalization believe that the processes of globalization consist of these two elements:
What are homogenization and indigenization? short essay #3
500
In the late 1950s, name two reasons why Jamaicans started to make their own music.
What is nationalist sentiment, not interested in rock 'n' roll, more people wanted to do sound systems (smaller systems) and did not have access to US records - (solution? record their own music), talent shows, trained musicians to record specifically for sound systems? short essay #1, #2, #3
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These three songs are tied to a short lived genre. Name the songs, the artists, the genre, and one significant element related to rude boys.
What are "Take It Easy" by Hopeton Lewis, "Rocksteady" by Alton Ellis, "Tougher than Tough" by Derrick Morgan, and rocksteady? RUDE BOYS - What is the 1960s American jazz musicians look that the Jamaican musicians are emulating and drawing on? or Why is taking care of the community a celebrated aspect of the rude boys? short essay #1, #3
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This genre of music from 1970s-80s is also a space for sound system parties. Name the genre and two key musical roles of people who perform this music.
What are dancehall and the selector and DJ (disc jockey) (MC)? short essay #1, #2
500
The tension arising over what should be included on a CD reflective of an Islamic soundscape.
What is an "uneasy juxtaposition?" (essay #6)