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Chapter 05: Diverse Traditions

French, Scandinavian, Arab and Asian

1. Zydeco fuses which two musical styles?

a. rhythm & blues and gospel
b. Cajun and Asian music
c. blues and Asian music
d. rhythm & blues and Cajun music
ANSWER: d

2. Of the following, which people had the most recent influence on music in America?
a. French
b. Hispanic
c. Scandinavian
d. Japanese
ANSWER: d

3. What was the chief instrument in early Scandinavian American music?

a. Hardanger fiddle
b. guitar
c. button accordion
d. piano-accordion
ANSWER: a

4. Who is considered the “King of Zydeco”?

a. Michael Doucet
b. Clifton Chenier
c. LeRoy Larson
d. Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural
ANSWER: b

5. Where is one of the largest Arab American populations in the United States?
a. New York City area
b. Salt Lake City area
c. Detroit area
d. Denver area
ANSWER: c

6. Which Beatles musician promoted an awareness of Indian music in western popular culture beginning in the
1960s?
a. John Lennon
b. Ringo Starr
c. Paul McCartney
d. George Harrison
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French, Scandinavian, Arab and Asian

ANSWER: d

7. Which music has been described as “digitized ethnic sound”?

a. Iraqi American
b. Japanese American
c. Afro-Chinese American
d. Cajun music
ANSWER: a

8. What is the basic musical ensemble in Indonesian music?

a. shamisen
b. accordion, fiddle, and guitar (plus various rhythm instruments)
c. taiko
d. gamelan
ANSWER: d

9. Cajun music began to be recorded during which decade of the twentieth century?
a. 1910s
b. 1920s
c. 1930s
d. 1940s
ANSWER: b

10. The rub board is a rhythm instrument that is most closely associated with what music?
a. Japanese
b. Scandinavian
c. Louisiana French folk music
d. zydeco
ANSWER: d

11. Briefly compare and contrast the zydeco of Clifton Chenier with the Cajun music of Michael Doucet.
ANSWER:
- zydeco

1. rhythm & blues translation of Cajun music

2. by African Americans

3. Instruments:
a. piano accordion
b. rub board
c. piano
d. electric guitar
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French, Scandinavian, Arab and Asian

e. electric bass guitar

f. sometimes saxophone
g. often sung in English

- Cajun music

1. fiddle initially the main instrument

2. button accordion later becomes the main instrument
3. Doucet (fiddler/vocalist) brought back the relevance of the fiddle
4. acoustic guitar
5. waltz meter common
6. sung in patois (regional dialect of French)

12. To what extent does the music of Nobuko Miyamoto and Fred Ho reflect Asian activism?
ANSWER: - They both fused traditional Asian instruments and performance practices with what are accepted
as quintessentially American styles.
- Miyamoto
i. Japanese
1. Japanese drums (taiko), heard at the beginning
2. shamisen, dry, percussive sound
ii. American
1. Acoustic bass (plucked)
2. Swing rhythm (jazz influence; Miyamoto is a jazz vocalist)
iii. intermingling of Japanese and English lyrics
- Ho
i. Chinese
1. folk songs
2. instruments:
a. erhu (a two-stringed fiddle)
b. p’ip’a (a plucked lute)
c. Several percussion instruments
ii. American
1. elements of jazz
- In short, their music arguably challenges accepted notions of what constitutes American music.

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