Music & The Mind
Sleep, trance, hypnosis, meditation, and drug induced are all examples of what phenomenon?
What is an Altered State of Consciousness (ASC)
Sufi is a branch of this Abrahamic monotheistic religion.
What is Islam?
A term from the Algonquin language meaning "healing ceremony". Nowadays, it is a gathering place for tribes to trade, dance, sing, play games, and compete.
What is a Powwow?
The first parade of dancers at a Powwow. Consists of all the competing dancers and flag bearers.
What is Grand Entry?
reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power
also: an act of expressing such reverence
What is worship?
He is the founder of the Mevlevi Sufi tradition and famous philosopher and poet.
Who is Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi?
This Navajo ceremony translates to "Grandfathers of the Gods" and lasts nine nights.
What is the Yebichai ceremony?
This term means overlapping parts to create a single musical texture that creates a "Patchwork Quilt" effect.
What is Hocketing?
This tradition consists of a whirling dance, meant as an act of worship to Allah.
What is the Mevlevi Sufi Tradition?
A drop in blood pressure, an increase in pulse rate and an increase in beta-endorphine (the body’s pain killer) are all associated with what?
What is an Altered State of Consciousness?
Dance, music, prayer, spiritual preparation, and fasting are all examples of this type of activity.
What is a spiritual activity?
Clothing worn during Powwow. This clothing is an expression of the individual, the family, and the community.
What is regalia?
This is the music and dance of Ewe people. It originated as war drumming and translates to "life" and "clear".
What is Agbekor?
Traditional, Grass, and Fancy are all examples of which gender's dances at Powwows?
What are men's dances?
Ritual purification usually takes place before what type of altered state of consciousness (ASC) event?
What is trance?
The word "dervish" comes from this word meaning "rotation".
What is devr?
A ceremony used to alleviate sickness from battle. Involves a ritual reenactment of a battle and a ritual killing of the enemy ghost. Takes place over three days.
What is the Enemyway ceremony?
The music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The main instrument in a plucked lamellophone played in a large gourd. A version of this music is used in a ceremony inviting ancestors to participate.
What is Mbira?
Extra Points: Mbira dzavadzimu
Traditional, Jingle Dress, and Shawl are all examples of which gender's dances at Powwows?
What are women's dances?
Name three characteristics of trance.
What are: souls co-existing with other spirits, trance happens in specific contexts, trances are prepared events, trances are learned behavior, etc.
These two forms of chanting are important aspects of Sufi ritual. They invoke the names of God and a state of ecstasy.
What are Sema and Dhikr?
Name three general characteristics of Native North American music.
What are: Whoops and cries part of musical texture, Use of “falsetto” , Drums, rattles and flutes are popular, Use of slides, Use of vocables, Use of monophony and heterophony, Melodic contour often descending.
This is praise singing of the Mande people of Mali. Performed by jali, people who serve wealthy patrons and sing about local history.
What is Jaliya?
This dance is used in intertribal powwow competitions. It originated in the 1860s as a response to the White invasion of Native American land.
What is the Sioux Grass Dance?