Listenings

Question 1

“Blessing” performed by Chucki Begay with the Mother Earth Blue Band

Answer 1

• “She also resists these gender norms by unapologetically fronting and managing her own musical group, Mother Earth Blues Band, and by singing in a lower, alto range with a pharyngealized or rough blues voice, sometimes also described by listeners as sounding manly” (115)

-Blues

• Lower range than expected for a woman; “ravaged voice”

-Listen for: bass/electric guitar, tambourine, female lead voice

Question 2

https://youtu.be/OvpZgpTafhI?si=JYPaN2zGaHBAo0V6

Answer 2

Blessing by Chucki Begay with the Mother Earth Blues Band

Question 3

https://youtu.be/pmm2R_95pyk?si=OtNFJ5r1mVkboxy1

Answer 3

The Fenders - Second Time ‘round

Question 4

The Fenders - Second Time ‘round

Answer 4

lead singer with “thick Navajo accent and employed a rougher, more nasalized tone”

Question 5

Wingate Valley Boys

Answer 5

Singer known for “more polished cosmopolitan singing voice, sang with a more open-throated sound, and pronounced lyrics with a more standardized, American-broadcast variety of English”

• old Navajo country, what people expect more than modern groups led by women

Question 6

https://youtu.be/NtcEI5vCkiM?si=nixZbFlLE2pgQ4Rc

Answer 6

Wingate Valley Boys

Question 7

Navajo Sundowners

Answer 7

Tinny, distorted, monotone sound

Question 8

https://youtu.be/NCPGoDJqVUk?si=sgqLRKD8f_NhHeut

Answer 8

Navajo Sundowners

Question 9

HONK! Musicians play “Cariñito” outside the Suffolk County Jail

Answer 9

-Agonistic relationship
-Community in many different dimensions
- Participatory music making
- Protest music, grassroots organization

Question 10

https://youtu.be/cVjle9sPPhA?si=RuQw85zx2KAF5-K5

Answer 10

HONK! Musicians play “Cariñito”

Question 11

https://youtu.be/ziTeXjHW7-Q?si=kQ7CPYSM6QSsZ-Sh

Answer 11

HONK! Musicians perform “Track Suit”

Question 12

https://youtu.be/nu4LSAK6EbI?si=JrM2BUyZVjXITmLa

Answer 12

La Fanfare Invisible performing in Paris; note the waltz