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MUSI 2740 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner lead?
Skillet Lickers
The first Latin American style to have a major international impact was the
Cuban tango, an African-influenced variant of the French country dance
tradition.
False
In rock music, the accenting of the second and fourth beat of a four-beat bar
is referred to as the _______.
backbeat
Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph
Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?
Tango
Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic
bel canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?
Carlos Gardel
From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly
heard in country music hail?
Anglo-American Stream
The arranger of a song decides which instruments to use as accompaniment
and what key the song should be in.
True
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What role has the musical "margins" in shaping mainstream popular taste
and the workings of the music industry, one typically defined by centers and
peripheries?
Center: geographical centers have included New York, Los Angeles,
Nashville. Power, capital, and control over mass media are concentrated. Up
to 1950s: mainstream American popular music: oriented to white, middle- or
upper-class, Protestant, urban people. Periphery: smaller institutions and
those historically excluded from the political and economic mainstream.
African Americans, poor southern whites, working-class people, Jewish and
Latin American immigrants, adolescents, gays, people "different" from the
mainstream. Supposedly marginal music repeatedly invigorated the center
of popular taste and the music industry. The people most responsible for
creating the music: less equitable share of profits.
What is formal analysis of music and what are the basic building blocks of
music that should be considered in such an analysis?
Listening for musical structure, its basic building blocks, and the ways in
which these blocks are combined; much popular music draws on a limited
number of basic formal structures. Musical process: analysis of how popular
music actually sounds, including the interpretation by performers. Riff:
repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum. Hook:
memorable musical phrase or riff. Groove: evokes the channeled flow of
"swinging," "funky," or "phat" rhythms. Timbre: quality of a sound,
sometimes called "tone color"; listeners are able to identify the singer by
the "grain" of his or her voice, and instrumental performers have
memorable soundprints. Recording engineers, producers, arrangers and
record labels: develop unique soundprints. Lyrics: words of a song. Dialect:
musical genres strongly associated with particular dialects.
Which of the following is true about the Afro-Cuban rumba?
It accompanies dances featuring sexual role-playing and was originally
suppressed by Cuban authorities.
Initially played by musicians in Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires, the
_______ was influenced by the Cuban habanera rhythm, the African-
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