Why is the answer to another apparently straightforward question—“What music is African?”—also not so simple and clear-cut?
What will be an ideal response?
• The answer must go beyond merely considering music from the African continent, and music performed by people descended from Africans living in other parts of the world, the African diaspora—["the breaking up and scattering of a people" -Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition, p. 320].
• "[M]usic-cultures are always changing and being shaped by many outside influences." Music-cultures interact and influence each other, especially with the almost instantaneous global dissemination of music through electronic media.
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In Riemenschneider's Assumption of the Virgin, the artist successfully incorporated which of the following elements?
a. Italian illusionism b. Byzantine spirituality c. Roman classicism d. Gothic intricacy
The new music of the Baroque emerged from which "pratica" of composition?
What will be an ideal response?
Invention allows you to avoid "in general", which Stanislavski believed was the actor's greatest enemy, by encouraging the actor to create and fill in holes
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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During what kind of rituals was the Double Mask from the Ejagham People of the Cross River area of Cameroon worn?
A. Initiation rites for warriors B. Rites intended to foster group cohesion C. Initiation rites for hunters D. Rite of passage into adulthood for young women