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What is a griot?
Layering of contrasting rhythyms
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Study Quiz for PAS 214 UofL
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Layering of contrasting rhythyms
Cross Rhythym
Additive
Polyrhythm
Syncopation
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What is a griot?
Tribal Historian
Master musician
Tribe leader
Tribe Drummer
3
Layering of contrasting rhythyms
Cross Rhythym
Syncopation
Additive
Polyrhythm
4
What fesitval was hed in the Carolines/Virginia to celebratethe holidays?
Lection Day
John Conoe
Pinkster Day
Junkanoo
5
Large period of time constructed from sequences
Additive
Polyrhythm
Syncopation
Cross Rhythym
6
What was the non-denominatinal religious old society for the black community called?
African Church Society
Negro Society of Religious Peoples
Coallition of Black Churches
Free African Sciety
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What was the first successful black theatre in NY?
Black Theatre Troupe
African Grove Theatre
National Black Theatre
8
Singing Men are called Gilikia
True
False
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Hamboning
Ring Shout
Juba dance
Glory Shout
Second line
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Call & Response
players turning sounds into single note
antiphonic texture that occurs when voices/instrument perform & alternate
players turning multiple sounds into similar tone
phrases offeset another with different start/end points
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What was the segregated area for AA's called at most churches?
Black Corner
African Corner
Negro Pew
Negro area
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Typically made out of wood/hollowed logs
Shawm
Membraphones
Aerophones
Drums
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What is the common root of most AA music?
North Africa
South Africa
West Africa
East Africa
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Stresses in music do not conform to themetric pulse but rather anticipate it
Additive
Cross Rhythym
Syncopation
Polyrhythm
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Hocket
players turning sounds into single note
phrases offeset another with different start/end points
players turning multiple sounds into similar tone
antiphonic texture that occurs when voices/instrument perform & alternate
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What is the great awakening?
The influx to african americans to the north
Religious movement that opened peoples eyes to the gospel
Civil rights movement that opened eyes 2 racial injustice & power 2 stop it
Religious movement that reformed the black catholic church
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What dance is known now as the american square dance?
Quadrille
Callinda
Jig
Hornpipe
18
How would owners of musically talented slaves make money off of these slaves?
Use them as entertainment to gain fame for their plantation
Have them perform and charge others for listening/viewing
Hire them out to other people for a fee
Sell them at a hire price on auction day
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What did African Americans first come to America as?
Indentured Servants
Free people
Merchants
Slaves
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Many hymns sung by AA's were written by early white protestant church leaders
False
True
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What was the first compilation of hymns produced by a black author specifically for AA congregations?
John Wesley Hymnals
Charles Wesley Hymnals
Richard Allen Hymnals
Dr. Issac Watts Hymnals
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What location did slaves congragate at near the French quarters in NOLA?
Bourbon Street
Jackson Square
Congo Square
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These tales employed an animal and designed for both humor/entertainment and discipline, pride, humiltity & principle
Trickster Tales
Timbral Tales
Extemporaneous Tales
Oral Tales
24
When is Heartbreak day?
August 4th
Juneteenth
Februrary 17th
January 1st
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Mourners dance to lively music on their return from the cemetary
Ring Shout
Juba dance
Second line
Glory Shout
26
Depicts sound of life, nature & supernatural
Donno Drums
Timbre
Talking Trumpets
27
Mimicks vocal sounds by changing tensions of the drum head to achieve different pitches
Timbre
Donno Drums
Talking Trumpets
28
Achieved vocal sounds by altering embouchurs & playing techniques
Talking Trumpets
Donno Drums
Timbre
29
African music is used to translate experiences of life spiritual world in sound.
True
False
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Heterophic/Polyphonic Texture
phrases offeset another with different start/end points
players turning multiple sounds into similar tone
players turning sounds into single note
antiphonic texture that occurs when voices/instrument perform & alternate
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What are some guttaral effects that AA Music is known for?
Screams and Grunts
All the Above
Non-pitched elements
Moans and Groans
32
Produces sound by blowing air through them
Shawm
Membraphones
Aerophones
Drums
33
What were people in the mtropolitan area who break dance and were street musicians called?
Guinea
Cebecera
Toto
Buskers
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Interconnected effect of the rhythm patterns coming together at the same time.
Syncopation
Polyrhythm
Cross Rhythm
Additive
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Trancendent ritualistic interaction with the spiritual world
Glory Shout
Second line
Ring Shout
Juba dance
36
Walk around/running spiritual. People move in counterclockwise motion while jerking/hitching motion in shoulders & sing
Ring Shout
Juba dance
Glory Shout
Second line
37
Who was the last country to outlaw slavery?
United States
England
Brazil
China
