Music and Society
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Course Introduction
Music and Society explores the intricate relationship between musical expression and the social, cultural, and historical contexts in which it emerges. The course examines how music reflects, shapes, and challenges societal values, identities, and movements across different time periods and cultures. Students will analyze the role of music in social change, identity formation, and community cohesion, considering topics such as protest music, popular culture, and the influence of technology on musical consumption and production. Through critical listening, discussion, and research, learners will gain a deeper understanding of music as both an artistic practice and a powerful force within society.
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Soundscapes Exploring Music in a Changing World 3rd Edition by Kay Kaufman
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Chapter 1: Sound: The Materials of Music
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Q1) Vibrato occurs when a voice or instrument sustains a pitch without alteration.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A rough or gruff vocal quality
A)raspy
B)membranophone
C)conjunct motion
D)zither
E)homophony
Answer: A
Q3) A group of people singing Happy Birthday is an example of:
A)biphony.
B)monophony.
C)polyphony.
D)polyrhythm.
E)heterophony.
Answer: B
Q4) Contrasting rhythms that are performed at the same time are known as ________.
Answer: Polyrhythms
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Chapter 2: Setting: The Study of Local Musics
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Q1) A conch shell that is blown in Hindu worship services
A)agbadza
B)bhajan
C)shankh
D)tanpura
E)bodhrán
Answer: C
Q2) Boston has a lively soundscape of ________ ________,in which musicians perform music from the past on reconstructed instruments to revive the sounds of earlier eras.
Answer: Early music
Q3) Music in three-part,or ________,form consists of three sections (A B A).
Answer: Ternary
Q4) The Portuguese musical form called fado is often performed to express:
A)nostalgia for the country left behind.
B)mourning for the recently deceased.
C)historical narratives about important families.
D)political protest against an oppressive regime.
E)moral expectations for teenagers entering adulthood.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Significance: Musics Meaning in Everyday Life
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Q1) Mariachi music originated:
A)around Guadalajara in the mid-nineteenth century.
B)in Mexico City in the mid-nineteenth century.
C)around Guadalajara in the mid-twentieth century.
D)in Mexico City in the mid-twentieth century.
E)None of the above
Answer: A
Q2) The music that is played to celebrate a quinceañera is:
A)very similar from one occasion to another.
B)dependent on the family's background.
C)often performed by family members.
D)typically drawn from one distinct style of music.
E)usually not performed on other occasions.
Answer: B
Q3) In Mexican and Mexican American communities,________ bands perform at quinceañeras,baptisms,and weddings to help celebrate important life-cycle events.
Answer: Mariachi
Q4) Queen of the Rushes is an example of a ________,a lively Irish dance in sextuple meter.
Answer: Jig
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Chapter 4: Music and Migration
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Q1) Vietnamese people living abroad have often performed a popular-song tradition,created in Vietnam near the end of the French colonial period,called:
A)phach.
B)dan bau.
C)dan nhi.
D)dan tranh.
E)tan nhac.
Q2) Music can reenact the migration process.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A southeastern Chinese song that addresses the concerns of everyday life
A)qanun
B)dan bau
C)mawwal
D)muyu
E)ho
Q4) The transmission of ballads through broadsides is an example of ________ transmission.
Q5) The National Road is a ________ ________,or series of songs grouped as one composition.
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Chapter 5: Music and Memory
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Q1) Pizmonim have been sung to the melody of a(n):
A)school song.
B)Christmas song.
C)popular Italian song.
D)Arab muwashshah.
E)All of the above
Q2) During the street procession from the cemetery in a jazz funeral,onlookers join the ________ ________,which follows behind the band and mourners.
Q3) Pizmonim are performed unaccompanied at a Sebet because Jewish law prohibits playing instruments on the Sabbath.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The jazz funeral emerged from the nineteenth-century New Orleans custom of funeral societies sponsoring funerals,which included music by a brass band.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Mexican ________ is a type of song that is designed to convey memories of particular places,people,and events.
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Chapter 6: Music,mobility,and the Global Marketplace
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Q1) High Little Moon uses which type of meter?
A)Duple
B)Triple
C)Quadruple
D)Sextuple
E)Additive
Q2) Musical performances were often part of the displays of Native Americans and other ethnic cultures at nineteenth-century fairs,festivals,and expositions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mido Mountain exemplifies the use of an ________,which is a short musical pattern that is repeated.
Q4) Felix Mendelssohn was an ________ who managed several members of the Moe family of musicians.
Q5) The interlocking parts in gamelan gong kebyar are called ________.
Q6) The sphere of musical interaction that occurs when subcultures influence each other is called the ________.
Q7) How have travel and tourism affected the transmission of Hawaiian music?
Q8) The legal protection of intellectual property is called ________.
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Chapter 7: Music and Dance
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Q1) Students of Mestre Pastinha were practitioners of Angola-style capoeira called: A)chulas.
B)batuques.
C)atabaques.
D)angoleiros.
E)ladainhas.
Q2) Which of the following things is NOT an instrument in a typical capoeira orchestra?
A)An agogô
B)A n'golo
C)A pandeiro
D)An atabaque
E)A berimbau
Q3) Dance can communicate a wide range of emotions and ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A section called a coda,literally meaning "tail," may be used to end a tango such as Adiós Nonino.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Music and Ritual
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Q1) An Ethiopian church musician
A)debtara
B)mantra
C)toque
D)Mahlet
E)zema
Q2) From the Tibetan Buddhist perspective,a brdung,or beat,consists of accelerating,unequal pulses created by the cymbals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are some of the different ways that music and movement can be used in religious ritual to achieve a state of transcendence? Support your answer by discussing several Listening Guide examples from the chapter.
Q4) Music often obscures the different stages in a rite of passage.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Ethiopian Christian chant is sung with instrumental accompaniment and dancing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Music and Politics
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Q1) Shoshone Indian Days celebrations include "giveaways" to attract more tourists as paying visitors.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Puerto Rican musical style that emerged from the seventeenth century
A)bomba
B)bes
C)ragga
D)riddim
E)bangara
Q3) How does the history of South Africa's national anthem demonstrate music's ability to convey various political messages?
Q4) The Hammond electronic organ and the synthesizer are examples of chordophones that became prominent in popular music in the late twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A ________ ________ is a song that expresses national loyalty or patriotism.
Q6) Open musical displays of power,or ________ ________,affirm and perpetuate an existing power structure.
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Chapter 10: Music and Identity
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Q1) An ________ ________ is made up of people in a society who have a common ancestry,memories of a shared historical past,and elements in common,such as kinship or language.
Q2) Karaoke tends to be performed for similar purposes regardless of where it is performed and who is performing it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Striking a string on a violin or other stringed instrument with the wood of the bow A)pizzicato
B)kabuki
C)no rae pang
D)enka
E)col legno
Q4) How have Cajuns and Creoles used Cajun music and zydeco to express various aspects of their identity,such as ethnicity,race,class,and gender?
Q5) In Allons à Lafayette,the bass guitar and drums comprise the ________ ________,which keeps the beat and provides harmonic support.
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Chapter 11: Epilogue
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Q1) The lyrics of A Tango for You demonstrate what feature shared by both Vietnamese love songs and traditional tangos?
A)The use of the third person
B)An emphasis on the future
C)A sense of melancholy
D)Reference to a long journey
E)All of the above
Q2) The musical traditions we have examined in most of the case studies in the textbook were affected in some way by the transplantation of people.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A Tango for You incorporates common rhythms of the tango,which are best described as:
A)duple.
B)binary.
C)ternary.
D)syncopated.
E)compound.
Q4) A Tango for You uses A B A form,a common musical form also called ________ form.
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Chapter 12: Introduction: What Is a Soundscape
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Q1) The purpose of applied ethnomusicology is to:
A)help universities generate profit.
B)enhance the welfare of a community.
C)extend research into the private sector.
D)prepare a researcher for initial fieldwork.
E)increase public interest in traditional ethnography.
Q2) Tuvan singers have used khoomii for all of the following purposes EXCEPT:
A)to reinforce their link to the Tuvan environment.
B)to imitate the sound of blowing wind.
C)to express political protest through music.
D)to mimic the sound of moving water.
E)to reflect the physical appearance of the Tuvan landscape.
Q3) A small Tuvan fiddle decorated with a carved horse's head
A)harmonics
B)khoomii
C)igil
D)carillon
E)register
Q4) If you learned khoomii singing,you would learn how to project the harmonics,overtones,or ________ that ascend in a series above the fundamental tone.
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