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Caribbean Music Intro
Reggae
Haiti
West Side Story
Other Caribbean Music
100
Another name for the Caribbean.
What is the West Indies?
100
Where it originates from.
What is Jamaica?
100
The national dance song of Haiti.
What is merengue?
100
The names of the two gangs in the story.
Who are the Jets and Sharks?
100
National dance song of Trinidad and Tobago.
What is calypso?
200
The original inhabitants of the Caribbean.
What are the Arawak and Carib American Indians?
200
Distinct characterstic of Reggae.
What are off-beat rhythms (chords)?
200
The native language of Haiti.
What is French (Creole)?
200
The names of the couple modeling after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
Who are Tony and Maria?
200
Distinct instrument in calypso music.
What are steel drums?
300
African influences in Caribbean music. (2)
What are syncopated rhythms and call adn response?
300
The acoustic version of reggae.
What is mento?
300
Haitian pop music.
What is compas?
300
The leader of the gangs.
Who are Riff and Bernado?
300
A short repeated pattern of notes.
What is ostinato?
400
English speaking islands. (3)
What are Jamaica, The Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago?
400
The decade in which reggae gained popularity.
What is the 1970s?
400
Musical interludes in merengue.
What are mambos?
400
The ethnicity of the Sharks.
What are Puerto Rican?
400
Developed fromthe ideas of calypso and American soul music.
What is soca?
500
Spanish speaking islands.
What are Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic?
500
The group that made reggae popular outside of Jamaica.
Who are Bob Marley and the Wailers?
500
The year Haiti gained independence from France.
What is 1804?
500
Where the story takes place.
What is New York City?
500
Religion associated with reggae music.
What is Rastafarianism?