What are typical blues lyrics about? How do blues lyrics usually end? Give an example and cite its source. Are “Poor Boy Blues” and “She Got Me Walkin’” typical blues lyrics? Explain your answer. What is the cultural context of the typical blues lyrics?

What will be an ideal response?


• Lovers and mistreatment
• The mistreated party gets out of the situation with a parting, ironic comment, for example, "If anybody asks about me, just tell ‘em I walked outdoors" from Howlin' Wolf's "Dog Me Around."

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Heraclitus is famous for having said that a person cannot

a. be in two places at the same time. b. love more than two women at any one time. c. catch up to and pass a tortoise in a race. d. step twice into the same river. e. remember more than five words in a sequence.

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The art and culture of the Americas before European contact is called ______.

a. pre-Columbian b. pre-European c. pre-Mesoamerican d. pre-Christian e. pre-Classical

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Malanggan are __________

A. wedding dances B. birthday celebrations C. anniversary parties D. funerary rites E. school lessons

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The art form known as video art was originated by

a. Bill Viola b. Nam June Paik c. Pipilotti Rist d. Eadweard Muybridge e. Giacomo Balla

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