Chapter Two: African Roots

Question 1

"Follow Me to the Drinkin' Gourd" directed fugitives to travel north following the what?

Accepted Answer

Big Dipper

Question 2

In New Orleans, slaves and free Africans were allowed to go here every Sunday to drum and dance

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Congo Square

Question 3

Vocal styles that employ metaphors and figures of speech with hidden meanings

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Musical codes

Question 4

The group of traditional African instruments that includes drums

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Membranophones

Question 5

Accenting the weak or unexpected part of the beat

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Syncopation

Question 6

A musical statement by a singer or instrumentalist followed by a response from others

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Call and response

Question 7

An early example of singing sung or chanted by individual workers in rhythm with their work

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Field hollers

Question 8

Wind instruments

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Aerophones

Question 9

Stringed instruments

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Chordophones

Question 10

Jazz represented a new interpretation of the African tradition of collective _________

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Improvisation

Question 11

The English term for jev

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Jive

Question 12

No sound recording of African vernacular music existed before the ________

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1900s

Question 13

A vocal performance style that uses vocal sounds for rhythmic purposes

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Rhythmization

Question 14

Instruments such as bells, gongs, shakers, rattles, thumb pianos, and xylophones

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Idiophones

Question 15

The English term for banja

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Banjo

Question 16

Group songs which included a call and response by a foreman directing others to work

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Work songs

Question 17

Factors influencing African music in America was the culture of the slaves, and the culture of

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Slave owners

Question 18

Folk or traditional music played in communities as part of everyday life

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Vernacular music

Question 19

A master musician serving as a storyteller, tribal historian, and entertainer

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Griot

Question 20

One important feature of African musical aesthetics coined by Olly Wilson

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Heterogenous sound ideal

Question 21

The African American song style after being converted to Christianity

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Spiritual

Question 22

Striking the knees, shoulders, or other body parts with the hands to produce a rhythmic sound

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Patting juba

Question 23

A shuffling circular dance of chanting and hand clapping that sent people into a trance

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Ring shout

Question 24

A harplike instrument which was an African American hybrid

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Banjo

Question 25

Songs that offered biblical stories as metaphors for liberation and hope

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Spirituals

Question 26

The English term for dega

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To dig

Question 27

Five note scale

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Pentatonic scale

Question 28

African slaves who played music professionally

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Musicianers

Question 29

Anything from the environment that could make a sound was transformed into a(n) _______

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Instrument

Question 30

The English term for hipi

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To be hip to something

Chapter Two: African Roots

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Chapter Two: African Roots

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