World Music- Exam 4
Kora
21-22 stringed double harp-lute - griot/jali instrument
Fania All Stars
Afro-Latin feedback - Zaire
Takism
Solo instrumental improvisation - rules - slowly reveal what madam you're playing in
Ostinato bass patterns, higher pitched melodies
Sounds played by different hands on kora
Qanun-Zither
called "law" defines tuning for the rest of group
Xhosa
click language - certain sounds in the language are pronounced with clicks
highlife, juju music
dance band music
Egalitarian
everyone shares musical roles and individualism is downplayed
Isacathamiya
form of a cappella music from the Zulu people - translates to "walking softly"
Sammi'ah
good listeners
se nuous music
highly inappropriate - commercial/foreign pop and dance music
Ney flutes, ouds, vocal chanting, some form of drum
"First Selam" - Zikr and Islamic Sufis music
Louis Armstrong
African American Jazz feedback - Africa
Graceland
Album that Ladysmith Black Mambazo collaborated with Paul Simon (controversial)
Herbie Hancock
American Jazz musician
Bedouins
Arabic Nomadic population that live primarily in the desert regions of N. Africa
Oud
Basically a lute but doesn't have frets
Feedback
Many music genres in Americas influenced African traditions brought through slavery - traditions come back to Africa influencing new music - still happens today
Takht ensemble
Middle eastern representative music ensemble - Consists of: oud, nay (top blown flute), violin, rig tambourine, tabian (single head drum), qanun-zither
Adhan
Muslim call to prayer - 5x day, embellished speech, spoken with elements of melisma, melody, improvised embellishments - mounted on top of mosques - words similar throughout Islamic world
Fela Kuti
Nigerian, singer, performer, human rights activist, and pioneer of Afrobeat genre
Rumi
Persian poet
Whirling dervishes
Popular in mevlevi order - shinned by other Islamic groups (Sufism too?)
Dhikr
Sufi music ritual - devotional ceremony: music, song, dance, trance, repetition of phrases from Koran
Griot/jali
West African storyteller/historian
The Mevlevi order of Islamic Sufis engage in
Zikr rituals involving music, chanting, recitation, and whirling in efforts to reach an ecstatic state meant to bring the practitioners closer to God
Nigeria
home of african pop music
Mbira
known as thumb pianos, one of the central instruments to traditional Shona music in Zimbabwe
Hospitality
much-cherished Arab virtue
Hocketting
music technique where individual musicians sing single notes that end up stringing together to make larger melody
Tarab
musical ecstasy, deep emotional response to music
Saltanah
musical self absorption when performing
Sufism
mystical branch of music - Branch of Islam mysticism - founded by Rumi - brought music and ecstatic dancing
Umm Kulthum
national icon - Egypt - voice capable of uniting across political divides - sang with Takht ensemble - Tarab
Magam
not scales - modes (collection of notes) - Found in N Africa, Middle East, Central Asia - Microtonal, not based on 12 note Western scale - Mostly taught orally and through extensive learning
Mihbaj
wood coffee grinder (idiophone) - symbol of affluence, social status, and hospitality
Toumani Diabate
world famous kora player - from Mali
Zikr
to remember God
Afrobeat
transatlantic feedback loop, Africanization of foreign genres, traditional sounds to popular music
Satchmo Okuka Lukule
tribute to Louis Armstrong
Chimurenga music
used to send political messages of revolution in Zimbabwe - takes sounds of the traditional mbira instruments and replicates them on electric guitar
Non muslaa
widely accepted and practiced (not seen as music) call to prayer, spiritual chanting, reciting Koran
Miriam Makeba
one of the most world renowned singers to have com out of South Africa - dedicated to anti-apartheid activism
Mbuti people
people of the Ituri rainforest
Muslaa
practiced by some, shunned by many - popular and folk music, military music
Q'uran
religious text of Islam
Hindewhu
single note stem whistles that create melodies
Dundun
talking drum, electric steel guitars, drum set, keyboard, vocals
