Music

Question 1

in von eschen and Aidi what is the force channelling pop culture? (Pres)

Answer 1

-US imperialism

Question 2

What does Gramsci suggest one kind of new intellectual necessary for economic functions of capitalism is? (pres)

Answer 2

-the organiser of new culture

Question 3

popular culture is produce for one of two purposes , which? (pres)

Answer 3

-to support some form of social hegemony or not

Question 4

What does authenticity presume (pres)

Answer 4

-some true relationship beteen the art produced and the genre or culture it is said to represent

Question 5

Who is an intellectual? (Gramsci)

Answer 5

-all men, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

Question 6

Why would some suggest that the pursuit of any unifying dynamic or underlying structure of feeling in contemporary black cultures is misplaced? (Gilroy)

Answer 6

-as black popularity is socially and historically constructed

Question 7

why is it not pointless to locate cultural practises, motifs or political agendas that might connect the divided black of new world and europe with each other? (Gilroy)

Answer 7

weighting the similarities and differences between black cultures remains an important element of some urgent concerns

Question 8

How did the music of the black atlantic world relate to british blacks? (Gilroy)

Answer 8

-they seized on it and sought to adapt to new circumstances

Question 9

How did the civil rights movement and black power appear in Britain? (Gilroy)

Answer 9

detached from original ethnic markers and historical origin

-through a circulatory system that gave central place to the musics that had both informed nd recorded black struggles in other places

Question 10

what has the retreat from a politically constructed notion of racial solidarity initiated?

Answer 10

a compensatory recovery of narrowly ethnic culture and identity

Question 11

what was the conflict between Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis ?(Gilroy)

Answer 11

• former insists that jazz provides an essential repository for wider black cultural values
• later insisted upon prioritizing the restless creative energies that can keep the corresive process of reification and commodification at bay

Question 12

what is a conflict referenced by gilroy?(Gilroy)

Answer 12

-between those who see music as the primary means to critically explore and politically reproduced the necessary ethnic essence of blackness and those who would dispute the existence of any such unifying organic phenomenon

Question 13

What is the John ‘dizzy’ gillespie example? (Von Eschen)

Answer 13

-JDG went on government sponsored jazz tour of ME with aid of president’s emegency fund by Dwight D.Eisenhower

Question 14

Why was the prominence of African American jazz artists crucial? (Von Eschen)

Answer 14

-as a cold war weapon

Question 15

What did US official pursue a self-conscious campaign against? (Von Eschen)

Answer 15

-worldwide critcism of US racism

Question 16

What role does Nikhil sing describe US policymakers as in? (Von Eschen)

Answer 16

-self-interest role of patron of older imperialism and an agent of specifically capitalist freedoms

Question 17

What was the Voice of America jazz show and how did the US weaponize it? (Von Eschen)

Answer 17

• jazz show that reached 30 million people in 80 countries in 1955.
• US sought to spread radio ownership, distributing across asia, africa and ME, so people could tune in to defences of US foreign policy along with music

Question 18

How did the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali react to dissident rappers? (Aidi)

Answer 18

• went after rappers like Psycho M with islamist sympathies

- Arrested rapper ‘el general’ and blacked out his myspace page

Question 19

How can it be suggested that hip hop did not cause arab spring? (Aidi)

Answer 19

-countries with most vibrant hip hop scenes, Morocco and Algeria have not seen full on revolts

Question 20

What did Cuba found in 2002? (Aidi)

Answer 20

-Cuban Rap Agency to create a revolutionary hip-hop sound

Question 21

What was the anti-mosque controversy? and how does it show perception management? (Aidi)

Answer 21

• Tea party v state department liberals on construction of mosque. Bad press
• Imam of Park 51 centre was sent on diplomatic tour of Persian gulf to show moderate perspective to foreign audience of what it is like to be a practising muslim in the US
• tour divided muslims in America