Music 17 Final Exam UCSB Questions &
Answers 2023/2024
Culture - ANSWER-a people's way of life, learned and transmitted through centuries of interaction and
adaption in human world
Music-culture - ANSWER-A group's total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, material
obects, etc.
Ethnomusicology - ANSWER-Study of People Making Music, interacting with it, listening/dancing to it.
Study of music as culture.
Thick Description: Emic and Etic - ANSWER-Thick Description: Interpretation of natives interpretations on
events based on anthropologist's empirical knowledge.
Emic= Insiders perspective
Etic= Outsiders perspective
Titan's Four Components of Music Culture - ANSWER-Ideas, activities, repertories, material culture
Homogenization - ANSWER-Cultures blending into something similar (cultural grey out)
Indigenization - ANSWER-looking at world through your own cultural lends and processing it in a way
that makes sense locally.
Utopia and Dystopia (With Ex.) - ANSWER-Utopia=good
Dystopia=bad
Music and Politics/Protest - ANSWER-Music as a weapon. Fela Kuti.
, Music and Race/Ethnicity - ANSWER-In Brazil the somba became a symbol of Brazilian ethnicity. Funk
and afro-beat symbols of black power.
Clive Campbell or DJ Kool Herc - ANSWER-DJ's said to drop the first hip hop rhythms in the bronx in new
york city.
Music and Nationalism - ANSWER-Bossa Nova and Samba in Brazil. Unique music that created unity and
strength behind it. A sense of a national people.
Samba + (Mystery of Samba) - ANSWER-Samba incorporates African, European, and Indigenous
elements.
Mystery of Samba= Was once repressed and limited to popular classes for being too "African" and then
next moment it is symbol of Brazil and displayed at carnivals and on radio.
Bossa Nova - ANSWER-"New flair/style" upper class music in brazil. It was 'cool and moved away from
Afro-Brazil and used abstract minimal lyrics.
Tropicália - ANSWER-Was short lived from 1967-69 roughly. Manifested from the idea of artistic
cannibalism. It was Brazil's version of psychedelic rock.
Cultural Cannibalism - ANSWER-Brazilian artists modeled their music heavily after the music that came
before them. It was a movement of great appropriation, borrowing, and influence from other ideas.
Bahia - ANSWER-Place where Black Brazilians came to Rio De Janeiro from. Condemned by lighter skin
peoples.
Music as a weapon, music, and protest - ANSWER-Think Fela Kuti. Music used as a platform for political
protest. Empowers the people through the spread of ideas (sometimes radical for the country). Fela Kuti
didn't believe in physical violence as a solution so he used music as a weapon.
Answers 2023/2024
Culture - ANSWER-a people's way of life, learned and transmitted through centuries of interaction and
adaption in human world
Music-culture - ANSWER-A group's total involvement with music: ideas, actions, institutions, material
obects, etc.
Ethnomusicology - ANSWER-Study of People Making Music, interacting with it, listening/dancing to it.
Study of music as culture.
Thick Description: Emic and Etic - ANSWER-Thick Description: Interpretation of natives interpretations on
events based on anthropologist's empirical knowledge.
Emic= Insiders perspective
Etic= Outsiders perspective
Titan's Four Components of Music Culture - ANSWER-Ideas, activities, repertories, material culture
Homogenization - ANSWER-Cultures blending into something similar (cultural grey out)
Indigenization - ANSWER-looking at world through your own cultural lends and processing it in a way
that makes sense locally.
Utopia and Dystopia (With Ex.) - ANSWER-Utopia=good
Dystopia=bad
Music and Politics/Protest - ANSWER-Music as a weapon. Fela Kuti.
, Music and Race/Ethnicity - ANSWER-In Brazil the somba became a symbol of Brazilian ethnicity. Funk
and afro-beat symbols of black power.
Clive Campbell or DJ Kool Herc - ANSWER-DJ's said to drop the first hip hop rhythms in the bronx in new
york city.
Music and Nationalism - ANSWER-Bossa Nova and Samba in Brazil. Unique music that created unity and
strength behind it. A sense of a national people.
Samba + (Mystery of Samba) - ANSWER-Samba incorporates African, European, and Indigenous
elements.
Mystery of Samba= Was once repressed and limited to popular classes for being too "African" and then
next moment it is symbol of Brazil and displayed at carnivals and on radio.
Bossa Nova - ANSWER-"New flair/style" upper class music in brazil. It was 'cool and moved away from
Afro-Brazil and used abstract minimal lyrics.
Tropicália - ANSWER-Was short lived from 1967-69 roughly. Manifested from the idea of artistic
cannibalism. It was Brazil's version of psychedelic rock.
Cultural Cannibalism - ANSWER-Brazilian artists modeled their music heavily after the music that came
before them. It was a movement of great appropriation, borrowing, and influence from other ideas.
Bahia - ANSWER-Place where Black Brazilians came to Rio De Janeiro from. Condemned by lighter skin
peoples.
Music as a weapon, music, and protest - ANSWER-Think Fela Kuti. Music used as a platform for political
protest. Empowers the people through the spread of ideas (sometimes radical for the country). Fela Kuti
didn't believe in physical violence as a solution so he used music as a weapon.
