Unit 10: Music

Question 1

Read the following excerpt from Grace Kochs article “Songs, Land Rights and Archives in Australia” and answer the questions:
a) What is the meaning of the legal term “terra nullis”?

Answer 1

-Empty land (for the British, Australia was terra nullis)
-did not recognize the rights of aboriginal Australians to their own land
-took it as a justification for taking the land from the aborigines

Question 2

b) What kind of legal document did the Australian Aborigines provide to claim ownership of their land?

Answer 2

-Ceremonial objects and songs
-land title exists in the form of song myth and ritual
-new type of land title was established in 1992 “native title”
-connection with land through recorded songs was justification for native title

Question 3

c) Who do you think dreamtime women are in Aboriginal culture? Check your guessing

Answer 3

-They were storytellers
-in the song series “Akwelye” the dreamtime women tell about the travels of the Rain ancestor through Australia

Question 4

a) What is the geographical origin of Jazz?

Answer 4

-New Orleans with black community coming together after work on a square to make music
-later in the Neighbourhood of Harlem in New York

Question 5

b) What are the ethnic components of Blues and Jazz?

Answer 5

-It was invented by the Black community/slaves
-Jazz combined Blues, African rhythms and ragtime

Question 6

c) What was the Cotton Club?

Answer 6

-It was the most famous club in Harlem
-famous jazz musicians as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessy Smith
- but only white cusomers were allowed