Music UCSB 17
Winter 2012
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Music 17 Worlds of Music
Mid-term Study Guide
Professor Hellier-Tinoco
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From the questions below, 15 will be in the mid-term exam.
This means that you can now study for the mid-term and prepare your answers.
You will not need to bring a blue book you will be given the exam paper, and you must write your
answers in the spaces following each question (there will be more space than given in this studyguide).
Please make sure that you write clearly and legibly if it is too difficult to read your answer, you will
not receive a grade.
PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
* You must write NO MORE THAN 3 sentences for each answer. (If you do, the excess sentences will
be discounted).
* If a question can be answered with bullet points or short phrases you do not need to use full
sentences (e.g. Name three .).
* All of your answers MUST relate specifically to lectures, sections, readings, and concerts that have
been part of the course.
1. What is music, according to ethnomusicologist John Blacking?
2. Give a description of the term ethnomusicology.
3. Name and describe two elements of music.
4. Name and describe three methods for undertaking ethnomusicological research.
5. In relation to ethics, what must you always do when undertaking a fieldwork research project?
6. What are the three elements of a musical ethnography?
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7. Explain why "This Land is My Land" was chosen to be performed at the USA Presidential
Inauguration in 2009, and why the musicians who performed it were specifically selected.
8. Name the four components of a music-culture.
9. What does material culture of music refer to, and why is this useful for the study of musicmaking?
10. What is the name of the LA-based hip hop stylized dance that was relocated in Panama?
11. How do maps shape our understanding of the world music?
12. and Give an example of religion, society and musical practice in Europe.
13. From European musics, give one example of a musical element that has been taken up in music
in the USA.
14. According to Chapter 5, which 3 themes of music-study does a Grale wedding demonstrate.
15. Describe the term fusion and give the example of fusion using Grale music.
16. What is lining out?
17. What led to Charlie Musselwhite learning the blues?
18. Describe 2 characteristics of the appropriate audience behavior at the Marc Hummel Blues
Harmonica Blowout concert.
19. Name and describe four instruments used by musicians at the Marc Hummel Blues Harmonica
Blowout concert.
20. Give an example of how the recording industry has been crucial to blues music transmission.
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21. Name three key characteristics of blues music.
22. In relation to P'urhpecha music, what is a pirekua, a son, and an abajeo?
23. How and why was the Dance of the Old Men (La Danza de los Viejitos) of Lake Ptzcuaro
appropriated in the 1920s?
24. Name and describe the bass instrument and chordal instrument in a P'urhpecha string
ensemble.
25. Which four modes of transmission were used in relation to the P'urhpecha son La Canoe Ms
Ligera (The Lightest Canoe), by Nicols Bartolo Jurez of the island of Jarcuaro?
26. For musicians and dancers in the Ptzcuaro region in Mexico who perform for tourists, what
does their utilitarian response involve?
27. What was the fate of numerous Nueva Cancin musicians in Chile? And what happened to the
Nueva Cancin movement?
28. What is hocketing, and what is the key social characteristic of this form of music-making?
29. What are the key differences between Mariachi Los Camperos and many smaller mariachi
ensembles in Mexico?
30. Describe two ways in which technology has been influential in reference to any of the musics
discussed in the course so far.