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GEOG 433: Day 26

GEOG 433: Day 26 . Review for the Final. Housekeeping Items. We will hear from Steve on his project (anyone else?), we will finish going through the concepts from last time, and then I will pose some questions from the material after the mid-term.

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GEOG 433: Day 26

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  1. GEOG 433: Day 26 Review for the Final

  2. Housekeeping Items • We will hear from Steve on his project (anyone else?), we will finish going through the concepts from last time, and then I will pose some questions from the material after the mid-term. • A reminder: the exam is on Wednesday, April 23rd from 1 to 4 in this building, downstairs in Room 111. You will be writing at the same time at GEOG 346.

  3. Review for the Final Exam • Anyone not sent me their genre presentation or put it on the desktop? • Since the last review, we have covered soul, reggae, and hip hop. The genre presentations have also covered a number of others, but you will not need to know these for the final. • What were the musical roots of soul? Was it in a sense a new form of race music? How did soul fit into its times? What was the collaboration between black and white musicians like in soul, and how did it change over time?

  4. Review for the Final Exam • How did the economics of the music began to change with soul music and, what techniques, in particular, distinguished the approach of Berry Gordy and Motown? • What music did soul evolve into or influence? • What were the original popular forms of music in Jamaica? • Between the U.S. and Jamaica, which direction of influence was predominant and how? Were there exceptions? • What was the role of the sound system in Jamaican musical culture?

  5. Review for the Final Exam • How did ska come into being and how did the original studios evolve, and in what relationship to artists? • Who were/ are the Rastafarians, what do they believe, and what role did they play in ska,rocksteady, and reggae. • When did reggae start to go global and how? • Who were/ are the Rastafarians, what do they believe, and what role did they play in ska, rocksteady, and reggae. • When did reggae start to go global and how? • In what way did reverse racism play a role initially in Bob Marley's life?

  6. Review for the Final Exam • How did Marley's music speak to the experience of black people to that of the downtrodden everywhere? • Did the notion of diaspora play a role in reggae and/or Rastafarianism? • How did Marley aim to be an agent of change, but also a force for peace – in the world and in Jamaica, more particularly? • What was Marley and Rastas' attitudes towards women? • What has been the fate of reggae after Marley?

  7. Review for the Final Exam • Who invented hip hop? • How does hip hop differ from rap? • Any thoughts as to why the cultural hearth of hip hop was the South Bronx or why it has been embraced so enthusi-astically in poor neighbourhoods throughout the world? • What has the global impact of hip hop been, and has it been predominately positive and negative? • What role has commercialization played in hip hop? • Any thoughts as to why, despite their relatively low socio-economic status, Afro-American cultural products are so influential on white North American youth, and on many other non-Afro-American cultures around the world? • What similarities and differences do you see between the various genres we have discussed so far?

  8. Review for the Final Exam • Why was Vienna an important cultural hearth (and magnet) for classical music, and music in general? • What was the relationship between ‘high’ culture and ‘low’ culture in music? • How did instruments influence the evolution of music? • How did the growing professionalization of music occur, and how did it change the relationship between the performer and the audience and the perceived aura around the performer? • How has music been an instrument for nationalism and national myths? • Leaving aside the role of rebel songs in previous centuries, what role has music played as an instrument of social change in the 20th century in North America?

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