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- The director of the film, Jamie Uys, paid the Kung San to
- enact false European stereotypes of Africans on screen in order to provide comical entertainment for popular audiences in Europe and the United States
- In 1975 McLaughlin formed another group called
- Shakti in which all other members were Indian classical musicians by training.
- In the 1960s Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, a classically trained Indian musician, modified a
- guitar to play raga like a sitar
- Raga are
- elaborate melodic systems utilized throughout Indian classical music
- Mbira is
- a plucked idiophone ("thumb piano") played by the Shona people of Zimbabwe.
- John Coltrane played in
- Miles Davis's band and was kicked out because of drug usage. While detoxing he had a spiritual awakening.
- In Indian classical music Gharana are
- "musical families."
- Balaphone
- A xylophone type idiophone that is constructed of between 17 and 21 hard wooden slats of different lengths suspended over a wooden frame
- Beleganjur music was used for
- actual battles in Bali before Dutch rule. Now it is used in martial arts shadow puppet plays known as wayang kulit as well as musical battles between beleganjur groups known as lomba beleganjur.
- 7. The Beleganjur cremation procession begins at
- home of the deceased and ends at the Temple of the Dead, where the cremation occurs.
- Dagomba is
- a kingdom of people living in Northern Ghana
- At the time of filming The Gods Must be Crazy, white South Africans had moved the Kung San off their land, placed them in concentration camps, and forced them to
- fight for white South Africans against other Namibians.
- Early Christian missionaries from Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries "made examples" of
- Africans playing music which they referred to as "Asses Music" and "Noise."
- Gamelan Kebyar
- A style of gamelan music that is virtuosic and often combines elements from other musical genres.
- Balinese cremation ceremonies
- commonly utilize Beleganjur music
- The Kouyate family of jelilu traces its lineage back to the first Mande chief, King Sunjata and therefore
- hold the highest rank among jeli families
- Beleganjur music intimidates and drives away evil spirits (bhutas and leyaks)who are said to travel
- to the earthly Middle World in order to cause harm to people and departing souls (atma) of the dead.
- Indonesia's diverse musical genres
- were significant to the "Unity in diversity" movement after independence from the Dutch in 1945
- "Praise name drumming" is
- the art of reconstructing history through the honorific "talk" of the lungas
- Stories about Radha who loved and sought after the god Krishna make up
- the lyrical content of almost all Hindustani classical music.
- It is in musical form that Dagomba history has
- been preserved over the centuries
- Gung-gongs
- accompaniment drums that Dagomba drummers historically view as having non-Dagomba origins.
- In 1965 George Harrison
- of the Beatles played a sitar solo in the song "Norwegian wood."
- Dagomba lungas are referred to by many Westerners as
- "talking drums," a term attributed to drums across much of West Africa and the rest of the continent.
- The human remains are
- carried in a tall tower called a wadah
- In India approximately
- 200 Languages are spoken, 1,600 Dialects, and Hindi and English are recognized as the national languages.
- Gamelan Beleganjur music was originally created
- evil spirits of the Lower World
- In Hindu-Balinese cosmology Gamelan music
- communicates with and between the upper, middle, and lower worlds.
- Sargam
- syllables which indicate the pitches of a raga
- Agbekor is an
- Ewe war dance, used when entering into battle with the Fon, a neighboring ethnic group
- Kyal is
- Hindustani vocal music of North India that has a long and well recorded history due to the patronage of noble classes
- The Kora is an
- instrument played by the hereditary class of musicians of Mande culture known as jelilu or jelis.
- Wajad
- Sufi term meaning the state of oneness or ecstasy with the divine which can be reached through music.
- Khyal performances begin with
- alap, in "free rhythm" which lasts about one third of a performance
- Vishwa Mohan Bhatt Wrote
- "India" in 1961 which featured improvised passages over a drone
- Film Git
- India's film songs
- Hindustani music follows
- the ancient Hindu scriptures called Vedas
- In Balinese cosmology crossroads are
- dangerous places where evil spirits hang out. The beleganjur music becomes less interlocking or syncopated at the crossroads.
- Tala are
- systems of rhythm and meter in Indian classical music
- The Ewe are
- a people located on the southeast corner of Ghana
- A Jeli is
- a praise singer and history keeper of the Mande culture
- 29. John McLaughlin left Miles Davis's band to
- his own group which he named the Mahavishnu Orchestra which featured Indian, Jazz, and rock influences.
- The Mbira is considered
- a "telephone" to the ancestors
- Metaphor and coded language are
- common lyrical devices used in Dagomba and Ewe society.
- Qawwali is
- a Sufi musical tradition featuring songs lyrics about love, longing, or devotion to the divine (Allah).
- Gat
- when the tala ("rhythmic cycle") enters. This section follows the alap
- Koni or Ngoni is
- a plucked chordophone like a banjo
- Polymeter is
- the use of two metric frameworks simultaneously, or in regular alternation
- Even though the Kung San were paid very little, The Gods Must be Crazy won
- the César film award in France and the Grand Prix at the International Film Festival.
- "Within You, Without You" on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band featured
- tabla, sitar, and raga-like features.