Part A and B

Question 1

Go Down Moses Artist and Year?

Answer 1

Earliest known record of it is Fisk Jubilee singers in 1872

Question 2

Slave trade Ends?

Answer 2

1808, though dates range from 1500-1850 due to use of already owned slaves

Question 3

Abolition of Slavery

Answer 3

1861-1865

Question 4

Field Hollers

Answer 4

• Comes in the 1850s, recorded in the 1930s
• Form of escapism while working in the fields
• Working to a given rhythm

Question 5

Subsequent Genres to Field Hollers

Answer 5

• Blues 1890s: Call and response, banjo and Kora (city and country)
• Ragtime: Syncopation and rhythm and work
  (Sync also seen in all jazz)

Question 6

How does the recording of jazz begin?

Answer 6

1917, Dixieland Jazz Band, white people begin ‘doing’ jazz, race records then follow in the 1920s

Question 7

How did New Orleans become important?

Answer 7

Allowed Jazz in a sense: Diversity in its background between African Americans of French and Spanish decent. African Americans are also now living in a tone of freedom. Also storyville becomes a place for performance

Question 8

Why was the Great Migration important?

Answer 8

Because it moved Jazz musicians to places like chicago and new york that were perceived as more liberal, spreading the music across the country rather than keeping it in new orleans and the deep south.

Question 9

Antiphony

Answer 9

Call and Respone: ‘Go down, moses’
‘Let my people go’

Question 10

Importance of Antiphony

Answer 10

One voice and overarching leader
Lack of written word in jazzes origins
Black church = no hymnal books

Question 11

Syncopation

Answer 11

Rhythm of work, also just incredibly idiomatic of jazz

Question 12

Biblical References

Answer 12

Christian influence over Africa
Freed American community in the US
References Gospel

Question 13

Overarching message of freedom

Answer 13

Reclamation of Christianity in some way
Ironic in a sense that those saved by moses are those enslaving black people

Question 14

Pre/Mid colonization in Mexico

Answer 14

1492, Chrisopher Columbus ‘discovers’ America

Question 15

Post Colonial Mexico: When, who, what?

Answer 15

1821, Mexico is New Spain
Main Demographics are criollos, mestizos and conquistadors

Question 16

Year of Mexican Revolution?

Answer 16

1910

Question 17

Goal of Mexican Revolution?

Answer 17

Overthrow Porfiro Diaz initially though eventually grows into a socioeconomic reclamation of mexicos character

Question 18

Agrarian Reform?

Answer 18

A part of this reclamation is the agrarian reform in which land ownership becomes usufruct meaning it is owned by who work sit rather than having regulated property rights

Question 19

Indigenismo?

Answer 19

Indigenismo is then brought up as this form of avant garde in mexico as the new agrarian and rural culture of mexico is being depicted in art, showing landscapes and mestizos rather than spanish catholic influences

Question 20

End of Revolution?

Answer 20

Jose Vasconcelos is minister of education and must cure illiteracy of the rural culture of mexico, part of which is commissioning public art

Question 21

Where is Fraternidad?

Answer 21

SEP, Secreteria de Educacion Publica

Question 22

How is the Mestizos important?

Answer 22

In reestablishing a state, a national identity is needed for some kind of reclamation. The mestizos becomes that

Question 23

Industrial and Agrarian

Answer 23

Joining in the center, showing the two economic histories of mexico, symbolised by the traded iron and bread and the hammer and scythe

Question 24

Mestizos

Answer 24

Mestizos is in a position suggesting jesus implying the cosmis race and also the emergence of a new people/race and a new national identity