MUS 1030 - Exam 3

The indigenous music of North America is the music of __________.

 

•  Native Americans

    

• Africans

   

•  Jews

___________ is often treated more as world music than as a type of American music.

• Jewish music

• Native American music

• African music

Unlike a modern concert or recording, Native American music was not intended to be listened to alone or apart from its __________.

• roots

• composer

• function

Sometimes the words in Native American music carried no meaning but were intended only as vocal sounds known as ________________.

• scat singing

• hollerin

• vocables

In Native American music, there was no _____________.

 

•  dancing

    

• singing

    

• harmony

African-based popular music, such as early R&B, jazz, gospel, blues, and soul are now considered mainstream rather than ethnic.

•  True

    

• False

 ________ music is from the French-speaking people in southwestern Louisiana.

•   Reggae

   

•  Klezmer

•   Cajun

 _________ music is from the Yiddish-speaking Jewish community.

  

• Reggae

•   Klezmer

    

• Cajun

Reggae began in the urban slums of Jamaica in the mid-1950s with a Jamaican style R&B known as ______________.

•   soul

    

• ska

    

•   zydeco

 ________ is dance music in the Agro-Cuban style and has been popular since the 1970s.

•   Salsa

    

• Reggae

    

• Bossa Nova