Who are the BaAka? Characterize the earlier way of life of the Forest People (prior to being confronted with external forces such as multinational timber and mining companies)
What will be an ideal response?
• "The BaAka are one of several distinct ethnic groups who share certain physical, historical, cultural, and social features as well as adaptations to the natural world [WOM citing Turnbull, 1983]." Presently they are living in the forested areas of tropical central Africa (in the Central African Republic—locate this country on the map of Africa in WOM, p. 68.) These groups are referred to collectively as the Forest People (rather than by the ethnocentric, Western label, "Pygmies," which refers to their smaller physical size).
• In earlier times the Forest People lived in small, close-knit groups of family and friends easily obtaining necessary food through cooperative hunting and gathering. As hunting bands with only portable material possessions, they would move in accordance with the availability of food. "The social system was informal and flexible . . ."
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The best procedure to studying/listening to a musical work in this course is to
a. listen with no visual aids, listen with Listening Guide in the book, then listen while following the Active Listening Guide b. listen with Listening Guide, listen with no visual aid, then listen using the Active Listening Guide c. listen while following the Active Listening Guides, then listen with Listening Guide in the book, and then listening without any visual aid d. listen while studying another subject, listen with Listening Guide, and then listen with no visual aid e. listen following the Active Listening Guide twice in a row, then listen with no visual aid
Who is Ani Difranco?
What will be an ideal response?
A member of the Blue Rider Group, Kandinsky believed that abstraction would lead humanity to a deeper awareness of _________________
A. the paranoiac-critical method B. spirituality C. the animal world D. the Enlightenment
What is the form of this musical work?
a) A A B b) strophic c) through-composed d) A B A