MUS354 Quiz 2 Review

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Across
  1. 1. Argentinian singer and actor who became the leading singer of the Guardia Nueva and popularized the tango canción all over the world
  2. 2. Música _______ Term that describes the various Afro-Caribbean styles, from Colombia as well as foreign origin, played by Colombian big bands in the 1930s and 40s; now describes all genres of Afro-Caribbean origin
  3. 5. Argentinian composer who integrated Argentine popular music with classical forms and jazz, becoming a leader of the Nuevo Tango
  4. 6. Musica Popular Brasileira, a late 1960s Brazilian movement during which intellectuals, artists, and musicians dealt with social and political issues
  5. 9. Brazilian urban dance that emerged as a Brazilianized, syncopated manner of dancing European dances like the polka; it is a precursor of samba and tango
  6. 13. Brazilian dictator who dominated Brazilian politics in the mid-20th c
  7. 15. Argentinian song genre, in which a solo singer accompanied with guitar sings melancholic lyrics in the form of a decima. Important as a predecessor of tango
  8. 18. Brazilian popular music, influenced by jazz, that developed in the 1960s as a new way of performing samba-canção, popular among the white, urban middle and upper classes
  9. 21. Period of time in the late 1970s during Argentina’s military dictatorship during which tens of thousands of people were imprisoned, tortured, killed or disappeared
  10. 22. Song and dance, associated particularly with carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro; considered Brazil’s national dance
  11. 24. Brazilian urban ensemble that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the 1870s, featuring flute, clarinet, ophicleide, trombone, cavaquinho, guitar, percussion. They played European dances, modinhas and maxixes.
  12. 27. Colombian songwriter, considered the most important composer of vallenato
  13. 28. Portuguese word for Mestizos
  14. 29. La Guardia _____, first stage of tango history, during which the tango was instrumental only
  15. 31. Argentinian dance and song genre and national symbol
  16. 32. Brazilian singer-songwriter whose 1968 album Tropicalia pioneered a link between cosmopolitanism and traditionalism
  17. 33. Colombian bandleader who led one of the most innovative and successful orchestras of música tropical in the 1940s
  18. 34. Percussion ensemble that accompanies samba; during carnival it can reach 300-500 participants
Down
  1. 1. Brazilian itinerant peasant singers, accompanied by the viola caipira, who are symbols of Brazilian rural identity
  2. 3. Folk figure of the arrabales, who blended gaucho and immigrant characteristics, central in the early development of tango
  3. 4. Música _______ Brazilian rural music featuring guitars, accordion, and two singers in parallel thirds
  4. 7. La Guardia ______, second stage of tango history, during which the tango canción developed and tango was embraced by all social classes
  5. 8. Conjunto de ________ Ensemble of traditional cumbia, including including gaita hembra, gaita macho, maracas, tambor llamador, tambor alegre, and tambora
  6. 10. _______ de samba: neighborhood associations where participants learn to sing and dance samba and prepare for the carnival parade
  7. 11. Gaucho improvised dance contest; its distinctive rhythms have been used in Argentinian music across many genres
  8. 12. Most popular Colombian musical genre, featuring African-based rhythms
  9. 14. Colombian working-class genre featuring button accordion, caja and guacharaca
  10. 16. Influential singer, songwriter and folk music collector who revived and promoted Argentine folk music, and influenced the nueva canción movement
  11. 17. Also known as canción colombiana, this Mestizo genre is considered the national dance of Colombia
  12. 19. Charismatic Argentinian dictator who ruled in the mid-20th c. by garnering the support of the unions, the working class and the military; his wife Eva was a powerful political figure in her own right
  13. 20. Brazilian singer and guitarist who was one of the most influential bossa nova figures for songs such as “Desafinado”
  14. 23. Colombian singer and actor whose fusion of vallenato with rock, pop legitimized vallenato among middle-class Colombian audiences and popularized it internationally
  15. 25. Folk figure of the Pampas and a symbol of Argentinian identity
  16. 26. Brazilian singer and composer who contributed to the establishment of the urban samba, composing such classics as “Aquarela do Brasil”
  17. 30. Afro-Brazilian religion in which drums called atabaques are used to communicate with ancestor spirits called orixas