Final Exam: Questions

Question 1

Which countries did Dunn travel to?

Answer 1

Brazil, Japan, India, Indonesia, Israel, Iran (via Dubai), China

Question 2

What did metal represent in Brazil?

Answer 2

Freedom of Expression

Question 3

What band gave metal a Brazilian identity?

Answer 3

Sepultura

Question 4

What band first influenced metal in Japan?

Answer 4

Deep Purple

Question 5

How did Japan give metal their own identity?

Answer 5

Incorporating make-up and long hair

Question 6

How did Japanese metal fans’ attitudes contrast Western fans?

Answer 6

Japanese would appear demonic, but after the concert they would go back to their courteous selves

Question 7

What is metal about in India?

Answer 7

Connecting to a global culture and breaking free from the restrictions they feel in their traditional society

Question 8

How did Metal spread through China?

Answer 8

MIDI schools for kids learned modern music

Question 9

What aspects of metal did China share?

Answer 9

The long hair and allowed expression of hatred and anger

Question 10

What was the name of the first Chinese metal band?

Answer 10

Tang Dynasty

Question 11

What made metal unique in Indonesia?

Answer 11

sang about social and political issues, supported respect for third world countries

Question 12

Who brought metal to Indonesia and Israel?

Answer 12

Metallica

Question 13

Why was metal important in Israel?

Answer 13

Used as form to express violence between religions and was a vehicle for a new generation to connect people

Question 14

How did the government limit metal practice in Iran via Dubai?

Answer 14

Didn’t allow CDs to be sold, no long hair, or jeans allowed

Question 15

What metal music offer the Middle East?

Answer 15

A way to deal with aggression and oppression

Question 16

What are the three functions of Jazz

Answer 16

Folk, Pop, Art

Question 17

Folk Music represented?

Answer 17

ethnicity/people and lower economic classes, political expression

Question 18

What did Pop Music associate to?

Answer 18

Middle class, African American Dance Music, and development of swing

Question 19

Art Music represented

Answer 19

Upper class, abstract expression

Question 20

What classified Jazz as a cultural export?

Answer 20

Association with African-Americans, associated with the United States

Question 21

What was Nisei?

Answer 21

The second generation Japanese living in the U.S. (they were authentic)

Question 22

What classification were taken into consideration about jazz authenticity?

Answer 22

Unrelated to musical competency, perceived background, reputation of performer

Question 23

What are the Basic step dance tunes types?

Answer 23

Jigs, Reels, and Hornpipes

Question 24

What was the goal of Gaelic League and Commission for Irish Dance?

Answer 24

Attempt to control the development of true Irish dance; fading of regional styles

Question 25

Feis were?

Answer 25

Competitions; conformity dance, technique, genre of music, codes of dress, codification of dance through competition

Question 26

What were the stylistic features of Irish dance?

Answer 26

Vertical: upright, straight torso, hands at sides, gaze straight ahead
Up: on toes, feet crossed over turned out
Athletic: refers to the high jumps requiring lots of lift

Question 27

Celtic Tiger

Answer 27

When the economy flourished because of Irish Dance

Question 28

Why was River dance successful?

Answer 28

Appealed to diaspora
Departed from competition culture
Transnational ideas
Innovative music

Question 29

What was Pan-Latino?

Answer 29

Other latin american cultures playing their version of plena

Empowered immigrant communties

Question 30

How was folk music expressed in America?

Answer 30

Democratic American Art
Political Expression
Honest

Question 31

What the difference between US and British Punk?

Answer 31

American more arty and less political than British

Britain: More class tensions, music more protest-oriented

Question 32

Similarities between British and American Punk

Answer 32

Both embraced back-to basics approach to music, minimalism, nihilism, confrontational, performance style, self-abuse, social rebellion

Question 33

Describe the music scene in Punk

Answer 33

Fluid, cultural space creates music alliances and the drawing of musical boundaries
Local: part of a specific geographic space
Translocal: congregate around a particular style, scattered
Virtual: scattered but people are able to stay in touch with internet and media

Question 34

What was Riot Grrrl’s goal?

Answer 34

Put female musicians in position of power
Challenge the marginalization and treatment of women and girls in popular culture
Bring attention to critically important issues of women and teens
Challenge popular notions of femininity

Question 35

Who were the founding fathers of Hip-Hop

Answer 35

Kool DJ Herc, Afrika Bambaattaa, Grandmaster Flash

Question 36

Characteristics that defined gangsta rap

Answer 36

Hyper masculinity, urban, crime, materialism, narcissism, misogyny, homophobia

Question 37

How have women changed hiphop recently?

Answer 37

Challenge male hegemony, confirm sexual stereotypes, challenge gender stereotypes

Question 38

Which artist associated with the Black Arts Movement?

Answer 38

Gil Scott Heron

Question 39

Which punk band gave punk a British identity?

Answer 39

The Sex Pistols

Question 40

What are the british punk bands?

Answer 40

Sex Pistols, The Clash, Crass

Question 41

Who was Ian MacKaye?

Answer 41

A straight edge teen idle in minor threat