Mus13af - THE MUSIC OF AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA Music 13AF...

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Music 13AF:
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 to 12:20pm
Instructor:
Jeff Kaiser ([email protected])
Teaching Assistants:
Nicholas Deyoe ([email protected])
Todd Moellenberg ([email protected])

Listen/Identify List for Unit II Exam
NOTE: Others songs we’ve studied
and discussed, while not part of
the Listen/Identify List, can be
referenced in your essays answers
as examples. For example,
different Freedom Songs et cetera
1. Masanga (Mwenda Jean Bosco)
2. Mbube (Solomon Linda)
3. Watermelon Man (Hancock)
4. Daimonds on the Soles of Her
Shoes (Paul Simon)
5. Badou (N’Dour)
6. Djama Kaissoumou (Sangare)
7. Daande Lenol (Maal)
8. Pata Pata http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-
VrfadKbco (Makeba)
9. Grazing in the Grass (Masekela)
10. Eje nlo gba ara mi (King Sunny
Ade)
11. Lady (Fela Kuti)
12. High Water Everywhere Part 1
(Patton)
13. Crossroads (Johnson)
14. J’ouvert Barrio (Roaring Lion)
15. Jump in the line (Spence)
16. Stir it up (Marley), http://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=nlk9Sj4Ns2k Stir it up (Marley).

Into the Caribbean...
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An overview of music culture
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Necessarily brief due to length of
the course
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Complex interaction of diverse:
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Cultures
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Histories
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Music
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Individuals

Into the Caribbean...
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Global impact of Caribbean music
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From the 1600s...
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Sarabanda
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Chacona
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...to modern times
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Rumba
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Reggae
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Small area, small population...
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Changed music in the world

Into the Caribbean...
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“Old World” music...
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African and
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European
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...meets indigenous “New world” music
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In a unique “crucible”
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White Political power
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Black Demographic power
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Isolation; combined with
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Maritime cross-fertilization

Into the Caribbean...
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Around 500,000 people, most in what is known now
as Hispaniola—the island that contains Haiti and the
Dominican Republic
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Indigenous Caribbean music, pre-1500:
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Areito (as described by the Spanish)
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Socioreligious ceremony
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Large numbers danced and sang
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Rattles (maracas)
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Gourd scrapers (güiros)
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Slit drums (mayohuacán)
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(Lack of large animals, no large skin drums)

Into the Caribbean...
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However, from 1496-97
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Spanish killed over 1/3 of the population
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Enslaved most of the remainder to work in mines
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Many committed suicide
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More killed by disease, starvation
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By 1600 indigenous Carribbean “passed into history,
taking their music with them.”
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Language exists only in a few villages now.
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Mythical Indian heritage sometimes asserted,
according to our text, to deny African heritage
and perpetuate a “negrophobic ideology” that is
prevalent in some regions

African and European Heritage
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Many ethnic groups in Caribbean
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BUT descendents of the 5 million enslaved
Africans are the largest
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Almost entirety of Haiti, for example
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African Heritage (Africanisms)
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(Problematic, essentializes regions)
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Collective participation
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Emphasis on rhythm
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Polyrhythm
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Repetition/ostinato
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Call and response
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Cultural retentions, and
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Individual Agency
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Local traditions; and...

African and European Heritage