Final Exam: Key Terms

Question 1

Music Nationalism

Answer 1

Use of music to assert sense of united community with a nation-state, and also to assert some sense of difference to citizens of other nation-states

Question 2

Transnationalism

Answer 2

extending beyond national beyond national boundaries

Question 3

Keiongaku

Answer 3

Light Music

Question 4

Nihonjinron

Answer 4

Unique essence of Japanese identity peaked in the 1970s

Question 5

Hegemony

Answer 5

Predominant influence of a political or cultural force over another

Question 6

Invented Tradition

Answer 6

A process of formalization and ritualization, characterized by reference to the past

Question 7

Diaspora

Answer 7

any group that has dispersed, often forcibly outside its traditional homeland

Question 8

Politics

Answer 8

negotiations of power relations

Question 9

Call and Response

Answer 9

generally participatory, audience sings hours and brings drums

Question 10

Self-determination

Answer 10

Free pursuit of economic, social and cultural development

Question 11

Mambo

Answer 11

Performed for white cosmopolitan audiences, Afro Cuban music shaped to American taste

Question 12

El Barrio

Answer 12

East Harlem/Spanish Harlem

Question 13

Protest Music

Answer 13

Criticizing dominant political institutions, beliefs, events, 
Expressing frustation
Galvanizing dissent
Providing inspiration and uplift
Offering alternatives

Question 14

Protopunk

Answer 14

confrontation, aggressive and nihilistic

Question 15

Punk

Answer 15

creative & economic resistance, Do-It-Yourself culture, Posters, Mixtapes, Indie Labels, Underground clubs

Question 16

HarDCore

Answer 16

a combustible mixture of white teenage male angst and frustrated energy (a louder, harder and faster version of punk)

Question 17

Race

Answer 17

A form of social identification and stratification