Chapter 1

Question 1

What is a Soundscape?

Answer 1

A Soundscape is to sound what a landscape is to land.

Question 2

What is Rhythm?

Answer 2

Concerns time felt as a succession of events rather then as a single span.

Question 3

What is Harmony?

Answer 3

Chords plus melody create harmony

Question 4

What is Form?

Answer 4

Way in which music is organized.

Question 5

What is Tribal Music?

Answer 5

Music and Musical Traits in one specific tribe.

Question 6

What is Intertribal music?

Answer 6

Music such as powwow or ghost dance music that are common in multiple tribes and communities.

Question 7

What is Call and Response?

Answer 7

Leader sings a song and its repeated

Question 8

Vocable

Answer 8

Lyrics with no music or translation

Question 9

What effect did the European Settlers have on the Native American Music?

Answer 9

Traditions were taken away because their traditions did not clash.

Question 10

What are the 2 main Churches associated with the native Americans?

Answer 10

Peyotism Religion

Question 11

4 Characteristics of northern style powwow music.

Answer 11

Singing, dancing, traveling, camping, feasting

Question 12

What is a “push up”

Answer 12

Term for the verse of a powwow song

Question 13

What is Bill c-31 blues about?

Answer 13

Bring the indian act into line with gender equality.

Question 14

What is Fieldwork?

Answer 14

research “in the field” rather than in the laboratory or library

Question 15

What is Enculturation?

Answer 15

The process of learning ones culture gradually during childhood.

Question 16

What is Intercultural Misunderstanding?

Answer 16

used to separating music from life

Question 17

How does the learning process of african music differ from many other cultures?

Answer 17

The Music is not broken down and taught piece by piece: it is learned through sequences of music and dance via stimulated performance.