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1
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What is Jubilee?

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1) A style of southern Baptist music that pre-dates contemporary gospel

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List the voices used in performance of jubilee:

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1) 4 singers

2) guitar

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Where is jubilee music played?

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1) In church, but not during service

2) Blurs the lines bewteen what’s for church and what’s for entertainment

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4
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In what context is Shout Band music played?

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1) celebratory church music, specifically for church despite sounding like secular music

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Which Christian Denomination is Shout Band connected with?

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The United House of Prayer

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Which genres are said to influence shout band music?

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1) New Orleans jazz
2) jazz
3) blues
4) R & B
5) Country

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7
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Which voices are used in shout band music?

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1) trombone
2) tuba
3) drums

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Waht is the intended effect of shout music band?

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1) amplified voice
2) dance
3) lift spirits
4) trances- like states

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9
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Taking up Serpents

What are the 5 signs of the believer according to the Bible verse Mark 16. 17. 18?

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1) casting out devils
2) speaking in tongues
3) healing the sick
4) drinking deadly things that shall not hurt you
5) picking up serpents

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Taking up serpents

Where does most of this music making take place?

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Church outside Newport Tennesee

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What are the various reasons for taking up serpents?

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1) strengthens your faith
2) God will protect you from it
3) form of competition

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12
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What is the cue for picking up a snake?

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When God is telling you

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Taking up Serpents

What kind of music is used in this clip?

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Country white gospel

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14
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Taking up Serpents

Wwhat instruments are used?

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1) acoustic guitar
2) electric guitar
3) tambourine

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15
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Taking up Serpents

Name 2 Christian myths?

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1) Adam and Eve

2) Noah’s ARk

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16
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Taking up Serpents

Name a Christian God?

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God, the Holy Trinity

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17
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Taking up Serpents

Name 3 systems of purity in Christianity.

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1) confession
2) 7 deadly sins
3) 10 Commandments

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Sikhism

Who is Guru Nanak?

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1) the founder of Sikhism
2) wandered seeking until he was 30
3) a vision told him God isone

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What are the 10 Gurus?

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There were 10 Gurus in the history of Sikh traditions and there probably won’t be anymore

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Who were the Sikhs persecuted by in the 18th century?

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Mughals

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Who did the Sikhs revolt against in the 19th century?

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British rule

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Sikhism

Where id they immigrate to in the 1950’s?

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The West

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23
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What is Sat Nam?

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“true name” of God who is infinate and present in everywhere and everything

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24
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What is Sansar?

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Rebirth caused by self centeredness which keeps from the final goal union with Sat Nam

25
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What does the Adi Granth contain?

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Writing from Guru Nanak, his successors and other poets and saints

26
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What are the 3 sections of Adi Granth?

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1) Japji
2) Ragas
3) Elaborations of the Ragas

27
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What is the Adi Granth used for?

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For devotional singing

28
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Sikhism

What are the practices?

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1) private devotions

2) congragational worship

29
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Name a Sikh myth?

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Adi Granth

30
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Name 2 rituals of Sikhism?

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1) private devotion

2) congragational worship

31
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Name the Sikh God

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God is one

32
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Sikhism

What are systems of purity?

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1) singing as a way for people to align themselves with the proper way of being
2) privste devotion

33
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Anthology of American Folk Music

How did modernity affect American Folk music?

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1) the decline of religion and the monarcy due to the enlightenment
2) domincance of science and reason led to backlas in the arts through romanticsim

34
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Anthology of American Folk Music

How did Nationalism infulence folk music?

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1) the rise of the nation state led nations to define themselves by their people
2) increased interest in folk art

35
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Anthology of American Folk Music

What are the Child Ballads?

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1) gathered by James Francis Child
2) Focused on love, death, murder, and the supernatural
3) e.g. Barbara Allen

36
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Anthology of American Folk Music

What was the environment that the Anthology was introduced into like?

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1) post-war America
2) Industrialization, surburbanization, booming economy
3) religious skepticism
4) Nostalgia for simplier times

37
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Anthology of American Folk Music

Who was Harry Smith?

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1) Creator of the Anthology of American folk music

38
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Anthology of American Folk Music

How was Harry Smith’s upbringin?

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1) his parents encouraged alternative learning

2) Researched Native American Culture

39
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Anthology of American Folk Music

What was Harry Smith interested in?

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1) things that are sacred without the inclusion of God
2) Collective stuff
3) similar ideas to those of Allen Ginsberg

40
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When was the Anthology of American Folk Music released?

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1952

41
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What Genres were present on the Anthology of American Folk Music?

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1) ballads

2) social music (religious and dance)

42
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How were the songs organized on the Anthology of American Folk Music?

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In a way that erased divisions of race, gender and class

43
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What was the aim of the Anthology of American Folk Music?

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To legitimize the material while reframing it as avant-garde art

44
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What legacy did the Anthology of American Folk Music leave?

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The folk boom of the 1950’s and 60’s provided new meaning to what it means to be American for the post-war generations

45
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2 myths of Anthology of American Folk Music

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1) stories in the songs

2) the importance of nationalism

46
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Goals of Anthology of American Folk Music

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1) the idea of a God

2) the sacraments we meet in connection to the music

47
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2 rituals of Anthology of American Folk Music

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1) listening to Anthology of American Folk Music

2) performing Anthology of American Folk Music

48
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1 system of purity of Anthology of American Folk Music

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things we can do to make America classless and non racist

49
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Alice Coltrane - spiritual Universalism

What is “spirituality of seekin?”

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When one seeks the form of spirituality best suited to them instead of what they were raised with

50
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Alice Coltrane

How did the Black Power Movement influence spiritual universalism?

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It shifted away from the Protestant Church and towards non-western traditions such as the nation of Islam and Egyptology

51
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What are the music characterisics of Alice Coltrane”s later works?

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1) free meter
2) free harmonic structure
3) non western music used in unorthodox ways
4) use of mantras (Hindu influence)

52
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How is Alice Coltrane related to decolonization?

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She refused to follow musical traditions, therefore decolonizing music

53
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Alice Coltrane

How is western music hegemonic?

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It is restrictive, such as you can only use certain meters

54
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Alice Coltrane

What is subaltern?

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One who is being dominated by Hegemony

55
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Alice Coltrane

the journey from object to subject

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From subaltern to someone with a voice

56
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Alice Coltrane

Myths

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1) The basic Hindu concept that Atman (the individual self) is Brahman (the totality of the universe)
2) The Western idea of self-realization

57
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Alice Coltrane

Ritual

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Bajans which she composed and sang

58
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Alice Coltrane/Hinduism

Gods

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A multiplicity of gods, even gods from other religions are valid and true

59
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Alice Coltrane

Systems of purity

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To be your authentic self will lead you to salvation

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