Prepare Yourself

Question 1

Stone, Ruth. “Communication and Interaction Processes in Music Events among the Kpelle of Liberia.” PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 1979

Answer 1

Kpelle of Liberia, artistic events are “set off and made distinct from the natural world of everyday life by the participants”

Question 2

How do arts and culture interact? - homologous (source)

Answer 2

Feld, Steven. 1984. “Sound Structure as Social Structure.” Ethnomusicology 28(3):383-409.

Question 3

homologous

Answer 3

art form and culture have same shape

Question 4

Feld, Steven. 1984. “Sound Structure as Social Structure.” Ethnomusicology 28(3):383-409.

Answer 4

musical form of “lift-up-over-sounding” reflects Kaluli communication pattern of “interrupting” each other [look for coherence, not correlation]

Question 5

How do arts and culture interact? - transformative (sources)

Answer 5

Beeman (1997), Roseman (1989), Schechner (2006), Bourdieu (1977), Bennetta (1985), Abu-Lughod (1986)

Question 6

Beeman (1997) or Beeman, William O. 2002. “Performance Theory in an Anthropology Program.” In Performance Studies as a Discipline. Nathan Stuckey and Cynthia Wimmer, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 85-97.

Answer 6

intentional, with aim to be effective/transformative; artistic communication events help people understand world around them: conservative (confirm what they think) vs. transformative (change their frames)

Question 7

Roseman, Marina. 1989. “Inversion and Conjecture: Male and Female Performance among the Temiar of Peninsular Malaysia.” In Ellen Koskoff, editor, Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, 131-149. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Answer 7

symbols continually being re-learned, recreated, performing an interpretive function, a framework within which to comment upon/question the accepted order of things

Question 8

Schechner (2006)

Answer 8

make belief (create social realities they enact) vs. make believe (clear boundary b/w performance and reality)

performance “as” something, or something “as performance”

Question 9

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge University Press.

Answer 9

agency; individuals/groups act on social environment with intention

Question 10

Bennetta Jules-Rosette. 1985. “Ecstatic Singing: Music and Social Integration in an African Church,” in More than Drumming: Essays on African and Afro-Latin American Music and Musicians, ed. Irene V. Jackson, 119-44. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

Answer 10

women in African Apostolic Church may not preach, but can interrupt a sermon with a critical song (“Men, stop beating your wives”)–artistic communication provides symbolic protection for critical content.

Question 11

Abu-Lughod (1986)

Answer 11

couldn’t complain or express pain conventionally, or through actions, but could let out real feelings through poetry (and other women heard them and related to them as real)

Question 12

How do arts and culture interact? - anti-example? sources

Answer 12

Lomax (1962); Lomax (1976); Lomax, Arensberg et al. (1968)

Question 13

What is creativity? - God creates…

Answer 13

ex nihilo, we create ex creatio

Question 14

What is creativity? - sources

Answer 14

Best (2003), Ricouer (1984), Edge (2010)

Question 15

Best (2003)

Answer 15

God as Continuous Outpourer; made in His image, we are created for continual outpouring, too, but He is singularly infinite, while humans are “unique and multiplied finitude”

Question 16

Ricoeur (1984)

Answer 16

Tradition is the living transmission of an innovation always capable of being reactivated by a return to the most creative moments of poetic activity….A tradition is constituted by the interplay of innovation and sedimentation” (68)

Question 17

Edge (2010) [food historian]:

Answer 17

“Tradition is innovation that succeeds.” i.e., traditions endure when people are motivated to transmit them, and have the structures and resources available to do so.

Question 18

Whom do we encourage? 3 approaches to arts in mission (sources)

Answer 18

Schrag (2013, ch. 118), Hunter (2000)

Question 19

Schrag (2013, ch. 118) - handbook

Answer 19

attributes the original concept of the 3 approaches to Robin Harris

Question 20

Hunter (2000)

Answer 20

St. Patrick as an example of Find It—Encourage It being used back in the 5th century

Question 21

Who does what? source

Answer 21

Popjes (2013, ch. 73)

Question 22

Popjes (2013, ch. 73)—handbook

Answer 22

by learning tradition, have profound impact on motivating people within community; happened with Canela people in Brazil, who later said: “You gave us the book in which God speaks to us, but your friend Tom gave us songs in which we speak to him.”