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World Music Final Ch 7,9,10
Soundscapes 2nd edition
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Undergraduate 3
12/13/2012

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Accordion
Definition
A Free aerophone with reeds that are hidden within two rectangular headboards that are connected by a folding bellows, with keys or buttons to play a melody and chords.
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Bandoneon
Definition
A button accordion associated with the tango.
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Compadrito
Definition
A type of urban gaucho reputed to be both Don Juan and pimp.
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Gaucho
Definition
The Argentinian word for Cowboy
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Tango
Definition
An Argentinian-derived style of song and dance.
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Syncopation
Definition
A rhythmic effect that provides an unexpected accent, often temporarily unsettling the meter through a change in the established pattern of stressed and unstressed beats.
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Bhangra
Definition
A tightly choreographed men's group dance, originally from the Punjab region of North India and Pakistan, with pronounced leg and shoulder movements and occasional waving of arms high overhead.
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Dhol
Definition
A double-headed South Asian membranophone associated with bhangra.
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Giddha
Definition
A dance performed by Punjabi women that is equivalent to the male bhangra.
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Polka
Definition
A fast dance in duple meter that has become identified with the Polish peoples, although it originated in Bohemia.
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Conjunto music
Definition
A distinctive style of accordion music, popular among Mexican-Americans.
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Conjunto ensemble
Definition
Includes: accordion, guitar, bass and percussion.
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Reggae
Definition
A style of urban Jamaican popular music that originated among the Rastafarians of Jamaica in the 1960s.
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Rastafarianism
Definition
A religious movement from Jamaica whose adherents venerate the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie
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Ras Tafari
Definition
Ethiopian emperor - Haile Selassie.
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Pawwaw
Definition
Powwow in the Algonquian language
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Powwow
Definition
Native American social gatherings that feature ceremonies, celebrations and dance comptetitions.
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Flag song
Definition
A Native American song performed during a powwow flag ceremony to honor the American flag.
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War Dance
Definition
A Native American virtuosic war dance performed by men.
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Fancy shawl dance
Definition
A dignified, traditional dance performed by Native American women with shawls draped over their arms.
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Jingle dance
Definition
Native American women's dance in present-day powwows, named after the metal jingles that cover festive dresses
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Grass dance
Definition
A Native American women's dance at powwows named after the fringed regalia worn in performance
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Ululation
Definition
A vocal sound of joy or celebration commonly produced by women in Africa and the Middle East
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Ney
Definition
An end-blown Middle Eastern flute whose sound has a breathy quality.
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Dastgah
Definition
Traditional Persian musical system consisting of a number of categories of melody that are distinguished by pitch content, melodic contours, and ornamentation.
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Darabakkah
Definition
A Middle Eastern membranophone with a goblet shape.
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Cajun
Definition
A corruption of the term "Acadian," a French-speaking people in Louisiana; their style of music; their cultural life.
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Fais-dodo
Definition
A Cajun term meaning dance music; the dance halls where such music is performed.
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Fiddle
Definition
(1) A name used for the violin in the context of a wide range of Euro-American folk and vernacular musics. (2) Any bowed instrument of the lute family.
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Zydeco
Definition
Dance music that emerged in the 1950s among the Creoles of the Gulf Coast. The name is said to derive from the French expression "the beans."
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Rub board
Definition
A scraped idiophone made of metal, used in the zydeco tradition (wash board, Froittoir).
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Karaoke
Definition
Literally "empty orchestra"; live singing, usually into a microphone, with a recorded accompaniment, performed in restaurants, clubs, or private homes.
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Kata
Definition
A Japanese aesthetic principle, literally "patterned form."
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Enka
Definition
A genre of popular song with melodramatic themes of love, used in Japanese karaoke.
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Habanera
Definition
A long-short rhythmic pattern consisting of a long beat followed by one that is half its duration.
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Orquesta tipica
Definition
Tango music instrumental form consisting of piano, violin, and bandoneon. Later expanded to include, up to, four bandoneones; a string section with violins, a cello, a double bass and a piano.
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Arrabal
Definition
Scums, outskirts, outlying areas.
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Astor Piazzolla
Definition
Created a purely instrumental "new tango" one intended not for dancing but for the concert hall. His most famous tango is: Adios Nonino and Quinteto Tango Nuevo
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Carlos Gardel
Definition
Singer most responsible for the internationalization of the tango. Performs the song La Cumparsita
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Milonga
Definition
A place or event where tango is danced.
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Kathak
Definition
One of the eight forms of Indian classical dances, originated from Uttar Pradesh, India
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Jhummar
Definition
A lively form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region in Pakistan. It is slower and more rhythmic form of bhangra and is a dance of ecstasy.
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Algoza
Definition
A pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes.
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Chimta
Definition
Literally means tongs. This instrument is often used in popular Punjabi folk songs.
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Bugdu
Definition
An hourglass-shaped gourd with stretched skin on heads. A thick cord or string pierces the center of the skin and a knob of wood is tied to the other end of the string.
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Afrikaans
Definition
A West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe
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Apartheid
Definition
Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch and British rule
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Ska
Definition
A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s. Emphasized the off-beats in a quadruple rhythmic pattern
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Rock Steady
Definition
A music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966. Slower than ska and anchored by a drum and bass line; the text discussed freedom and equality.
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Peter Tosh
Definition
was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963–1974), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari.
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Bob Marley
Definition
a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and regga.
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