Review sheet for midterm quiz, 18 Oct 2017
The quiz will contain a subset of the following terms and phrases, out of which you will be asked to select a number to discuss. For each such selected term or phrase, you will write a paragraph of about 4-5 sentences, setting forth the meaning of each term or phrase as it has been presented in this course (in class, in readings, in films). Your discussion of each term or phrase will not exceed one page in an exam booklet. The full list follows; please review in preparation.
Abd al-Halim Hafiz
Agbekor: rhythms, meaning, context of performance
al-Fatiha
Alan Lomax
Applied ethnomusicology and participatory action research
Bayyati, hijaz, rast
Cantometrics
Comparative musicology vs. ethnomusicology
Cultural Equity
Damba
Dance clubs among the Ewe (e.g. Lebene Habɔbɔ)
Drum (with a capital D): Vu
Drumming as praise and history among the Dagomba
Dum and tek
Durub
Emic/etic VS. insider/outsider
Ethical vs. legal limitations on fieldwork
Ethno- (as prefix)
Ethnocentrism
Ethnography
Ethnomusicology
Ewe percussion ensemble (gankogui, axatse, kagan, kidi, totodzi, sogo, atsimevu….)
Fieldwork ethics and informed consent
Fieldwork: participant-observation continuum, interview, survey, recording, lessons
Frame drums (riqq, duff)
George Chunga Otiende
“Ghani li shwaya”
Global jukebox
Graph notation
Hornbostel-Sachs classification (4 basic categories)
Informed consent principle
Inta `Umri
Kinka: rhythms, meaning, context of performance
“Listening to the silence”
Lunga (talking drum) and gunggong (bass drum)
Maqam
Maqsum
Media factors that made Umm Kulthum famous
Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab
Mujawwad vs. Murattal
Music and funerals
Music for Global Human Development (m4ghd)
Musical organization of the orchestra (monophony, unison, heterophony, polyphony -cantometrics line 7)
Nay (flute): its sound and meaning
Polymelorhythm and its social implications (social structure, social status)
Polymelorhythm in the African diaspora
Quarter tones (microtones)
Qur’an recitation competitions
Qur’anic recitation (tilawa)
Qur’anic recitation vs singing
“Rosie”
“Salama”
Sama`i thaqil
Sayyid Darwish
The meaning of the honorific “Shaykh”, and Shaykh Zakaria Ahmed
Sufi tariqa, hadra, inshad
Tactus (pulse ) vs. beat
Taqtuqa
The evolutionary role of storytelling in human life
The multiple roles of music in storytelling
The role of drumming among the Dagbamba, in Dagbon
Tonal language and drum language
Traditional vocal training in Egypt (kuttab, Qur’anic recitation, Sufi inshad)
Two modes of thought: reason (logic), and story (narrative)
Umm Kulthum
Work songs
World Music