Quiz 2: Week Three

Question 1

ethnomusicology

Answer 1

The study of music in/as a culture

Question 2

Globalization

Answer 2

Increasing connectivity around the world with respect to many spheres of life and the taking up of values and practices in multiple locations simultaneously

Question 3

World Music

Answer 3

First coined in 1960s to categorize traditions other than European music, also used as in industry (marketing tool) while it carries a sense of the exotic other (The West and the rest)

Question 4

Authenticity

Answer 4

Resembles authority and resides in a person who has acquired the knowledge that permits him or her to perform authentically or evaluate authenticity as a critic.

Question 5

Tradition

Answer 5

A style of performance or a musical genre, something within which items evolve, the group as a source of musical creativity

Question 6

Music and Nationalism

Answer 6

The use of music specifically to assert the all important sense of a united community within a nation state, and also to assert some sense of difference to citizens of other nation states

Question 7

Music and Identity

Answer 7

A person’s identity is invariably defined in terms of ancestral place of origin not the nation but the region and social class

Question 8

Music and Gender

Answer 8

Ways maleness and femaleness are constructed, think of a women barbershop quartet