USC Midterm

Antonio (Tom) Jobim was an important politician in Brazil.

Secular Cuban dance music that features singing, conga drums, instruments:

is the rhythmic basis of virtually all forms of Cuban-derived Latin dance music.

The danzón, Cuba’s “national dance” of the 1920s, was accompanied by an ensemble called

The classification system of instruments based on “-phones” was created by:

Golpes and Gingas can be correctly associated with capoeira in Brazil.

The bossa nova style of guitar playing, is called:

Africa is a really big country.

Which of the following is considered the most important creole musical genre in Puerto Rico?

Mariachi music

In Cuba the term Orishas refers to?

Bossa-nova was developed by and highly popular among rural people.

The word samba comes from the bantu word semba which means “belly bump.”

The song Chega de Saudade was the first bossanova song recorded in 1958 by Joao Gilberto.

Candomble is a religious practice associated with Brazilian capoeira.

capoeira makes use of a limited repertoire of no more than 140 songs.

Ethnomusicology is the study of music and its connections with etymology.

The main drum used in Capoeria is known as:

Two popular musical genres originally from Puerto Rico are the: