Race and Christopher Small's theory of music

Question 1

What is the central organizing principle of African musicking and the arts?

Accepted Answer

rhythm

Question 2

What do we know about race and freedom in US context?

Accepted Answer

Race and freedom evolved together

Question 3

Unlike animals, human sub-species do not exist.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Europeans feared Africans lived without Western ideals of reason and progress. This attitude is called:

Accepted Answer

ethnocentrism

Question 5

Racial superiority leads to advantages in wealth, power, and prestige among White people.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 6

Colorblindness will end racism.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Africans practice the art of social happiness; the most serious rituals can be extremely enjoyable.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Pop quiz, because we know how much Great Danes love learning. What is intuition?

Accepted Answer

Our ability to directly "know" something without critical thinking.

Question 9

Music is considered a thing like a work of art. Participation in musicking is not highly valued like art.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

The genes for skin color have nothing to do with hair form, eye shape, forms of intelligence, or musical talent.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The Greeks had slaves, but the U.S. was the first to invent the belief in inferiority based on ancestry and skin color.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Musicking is concerned with exploration, affirmation, & celebration of individual and communal relationships.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

The modern word "race" first turned up in a 1508 poem by William Dunbar referring to a line of kings.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

"Scientific" belief in white superiority justified African slavery, exterminating Native Americans, taking Mexican land

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

There is no characteristic trait or gene that distinguishes human beings by race. Our genetic makeup is 99.9% identical.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

More genetic variation exists between people of the same ethnic background than between different "races."

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Africans distinguish between the most and least gifted, between children and adults, in musicking.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Play is an important part of all social interactions, affirming individual identities and self-realization.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Musical sounds mirror relationships like individuality within collectivity reflecting the principle of Ubuntu.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Musicians, dancers, and listeners learn to supply the beat from an internal sense learned at a young age.

Accepted Answer

True

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