Sub-Saharan Africa
Manding praise-singers
Who are jalolu?
The Garinagu are descendants of these 2 indigenous groups (in addition to African groups).
Who are the Arawaks and the Caribs?
The outcome of this war shifted control of Cuba to the U.S. for 4 years.
What is the Spanish-American War?
What Columbus and his companions allegedly sang every day at twilight during their first voyage to the Americas.
What is the "Salve Regina" chant?
This region served as the point-of-entry into the Americas for the majority of enslaved Africans.
What is the Caribbean?
An Ewe drumming-and-dance tradition that originally prepared warriors for battle.
What is Agbekor?
The Garifuna word for "reciprocity" (a core value of the culture).
What is machularadi?
The rhythmic timeline pattern in Afro-Cuban music.
What is clave?
The Afro-Dominican Lucumi belief system, based on the pantheon of Yoruba deities.
What is the 21 Division?
The largest number of plantations on Saint Domingue, and then Cuba, grew this crop.
What is sugarcane?
Most Sub-Saharan African music-making vs. most Western Classical music-making
What is participatory vs. presentational?
The biggest threat to Garifuna cultural survival in the 21st century.
What is land expropriation/theft?
The Regla de Ocha orisha who opens doors and guards crossroads.
Who is Elegguá?
One of the most common performance contexts of Afro-Dominican salve, representing a promise kept to a personal patron saint or deceased relative.
What is a velación?
The present-day West African country containing most of Yorubaland.
What is Nigeria?
The combination of ostinato and improvisation reflects this Sub-Saharan African aesthetic principle.
What is Core vs. Elaboration?
The ostinato drum of the garaón ensemble.
What is the segunda?
A lighter, less formal instrumental ensemble for orisha worship.
What is a Toque de Güiro?
Which Kongo-derived music genre contains the canoita wooden idiophone?
What is Congos de Villa Mella?
Mutual aid societies that allowed the continuation of African cultural & musical practices under a Catholic guise.
What are cabildos/brotherhoods?
The melodic instrument in this piece.
What is the kora?
The genre of this piece.
What is paranda?
The name of the membranophones played in this piece.
What are batá drums?
The genre of this piece.
What is Gagá?
The intermixture of indigenous, European, and African ethnicities and cultural heritages.
What is creolization?