Music test 3
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- Growing up in "Spanish" Harlem in the 1930s and 40s
- exposed Tito Puente to a range of musical streams of influence including Jazz, Western Classical, and Latin dance musics
- Millions of African Slaves
- were captured and brought to Cuba between 1790 and 1860
- A fertility dance
- used to connect and build community between women, the traditional roots of belly dancing were crucial to girls' initiation ceremonies into womanhood
- Before the 19th century
- white Spanish settlers in Cuba danced to waltzes, minuets, mazurkas
- Ghawazi
- were originally hereditary families of female "public" dancers in Egypt
- The yangqin is played
- with two mallets that strike the instruments strings
- Son
- a more heavily African influenced style, replaced Danzon as the most popular dance style
- Masmoudi
- a "dum-tek" dance rhythm used in raqs sharqi, built upon and expanded the Zaar rhythms
- The zheng
- has 21 strings
- Badiaa Masabni's
- Casino Badiaa facilitated the foundations for Raqs Sharqi (contemporary Egyptian belly dance)
- Traditionally the suona
- is used in weddings and funerals
- Maqams
- are Arabic melodic systems similar to European modes and Indian Ragas
- The name Erhu
- means two strings
- The variety of musical traditions
- in China was caused by the diasporas of many different ethnic groups
- Tarab
- is an Arabic concept describing (among other notions) the state of ecstasy achieved through music-making
- The Mambo
- incorporated jazz Influences and big band instrumentalization, Afro-Cuban percussion rhythms, fast tempos, and highly energetic playing
- In the early 1900s
- Danzon, a style of music exhibiting both African and European influence, became Cuba's "national" dance music
- The yangqin
- is a Chinese hammered dulcimer
- Bata drums
- are the instruments most commonly associated with Santeria repertory
- The two Chinese flutes
- are called the dizi and the xiao
- In the 1920s
- King Faruq supported the emergence of casino theaters wherein public women's dancing entertainment took place
- The musicultures of Egypt
- share many similarities with societies across the Arab world
- Danzon
- made a comeback by changing its name to the the Danzon-Mambo and incorporated Afro-Cuban influences such as congas, cowbell, and improvised, layered ostinatos
- A Zaar
- is a healing ritual from which many rhythms and dance styles of Egyptian raqs sarqi (contemporary Egyption belly dancing) have been absorbed
- The Cuban "Santeria" religion
- preserved Yoruba rituals from the Nigerian region of West Africa
- Featuring musicians from Cuban and Puerto Rican backgrounds
- the Mambo Kings reflected a unified Latino-American identity
- The two Chinese lutes
- are called the ruan and the pipa
- The purpose of the Zaar
- is to exorcize the jinn, an evil spirit, through specific dance rhythms
- The erhu, according to the Hornbostel and Sachs classification system
- is a spike bowed spike lute
- The zheng is associated
- with women and literati
- Tito
- reinvented the cha-cha-cha in the 1960s with Oye Como Va
- The zheng saw
- a renaissance in the qin, han, tang, ming, and qing dynasties
- The strings of the zheng
- are made of silk and steel
- Danzon groups
- known as Charangas, featured flutes, strings, piano, guiro, maracas, and timbales
- Claves
- provide the foundational rhythms for Cuban rumba
- Perez Prado's
- Mambo # 5 was an international hit in 1949
- Carlos Santana's
- re-recorded version of Oye Como Va in 1970 became an international hit
- Enrique Jorrin
- composed the Cha-cha-cha in the 1940s to simplify the Danzon Mambo rhythms so that popular American audiences could dance to it
- The Erhu
- is typically compared to the Western violin
- The largest ethnic group
- in China is the Han ethnic group
- Popular film and music industry stars
- of Egypt from 1920-1960 synthesized Asil (authentically Arab-Egyption influences) and Hadith (imported Western influences)
- The unique sound of the dizi
- is created by a thin membrane placed over a tone hole
- Contemporary rumba
- features a set of three drums called congas
- Belly dancing
- derives from Middle Eastern "traditional dances" that were performed in the domestic realm out of the sight of men
- The erhu has
- two strings
- Horbostel and Sachs
- would classify the zheng as a plucked zither
- After Egypt's "bloodless" revolution
- 'Abd al-Nasser's cultural nationalism agenda re-traditionalized women's dance by banning provocative elements of 'public" dancing
- Rumba
- is traditional secular, social dance music of Cuba
- By the 19th century
- Yoruba Santeria and Congolese Rumba styles were influencing European Classical dance genres in Cuba
- Farida Fahmy and the Reda Troupe
- became major influences in Nasser's Neo-traditional movement