Weeks 4-6

Question 1

Rhythms

Answer 1

Yakotá
Ñongo
Chachalokafún

Question 2

Which rhythms are at the end

Answer 2

Faster ones

Question 3

what is sung slower

Answer 3

Rezo (prayer)

Question 4

what tempo is the Rezo sung

Answer 4

Contra tempo

Question 5

Patakines

Answer 5

Orika or iriki

Question 6

African Based Haitian religion

Answer 6

Vodou

Question 7

19th century

Answer 7

Yoruba influx bc Yoruba kingdoms defeated so many more Yoruba people sold into slavery.

Question 8

Areítos.

Answer 8

native dances done in large groups with simple steps that would traverse spatial patterns. Often danced in processions of people interlocking elbows or holding hands

Question 9

brought zapateo and contredanse

Answer 9

Influence of Spain and Colonial French Haiti (Saint Domingue)

Question 10

Tumba francesa

Answer 10

From Haitians coming to Cuba

Question 11

Rara

Answer 11

Gaga

Question 12

Four main Afro-Cuban nations

Answer 12

Fon-derived Arará.
Cuban Yoruba (Lucumí)
Kongo-Angola (Palo)
Calabar River – Carabalí (Bight of Biafa – Cameroon and Nigeria)

Question 13

Kongo-Angola

Answer 13

the most dominant African-based culture in Cuba. Comparsa (Conga) is a dance for social gatherings. Hip circling Yuca and Makuta is done w a partner and is connected to Palo Monte (the Kongo religion). Dynamic and explosive characteristics in the dance Palo. Divinities are called nkisis in Palo Monte. “spirit raising

Question 14

Arara

Answer 14

Allada kingdom of Benin, contemporary towns of Allada, Abomey, and Ouidah. Fon people/culture but also Andja, Ewe, and Yoruba ethnicities present

Question 15

Arara divinities

Answer 15

Fodunes or Vodunes

Question 16

Carabali

Answer 16

– African nation from Calabar River region near present day Cameroon and Nigeria (was the Bight of Biafa).

Question 17

Secret society

Answer 17

Abakua

Question 18

Yoruba

Answer 18

Latest African to arrive in Cuba, Dance for the orishas

Question 19

Caminos

Answer 19

Episodes from the (Yoruba) orishas lives that the dances represent

Question 20

Yoruba (main) orishas

Answer 20

Elegba, Ogùn, Ochosi, Ochún, Changó, Yemayá, Obatala, Oyá, Babaluayé

Question 21

a toque de santo

Answer 21

a Regla de Ocha ceremony) in Havana, Cuba

Question 22

Toque(s)

Answer 22

Can also mean rhythms

Question 23

CFNC

Answer 23

for Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba – one of the most well-known folkloric companies based in Havana: The National Folkloric Company of Cuba.

Question 24

Liminal

Answer 24

an in between-ness where seemingly divergent concepts overlap | occupying the space of a boundary or threshold | a transition/transitional moment or space

Question 25

Okónkolo, itótele, iyá

Answer 25

Three different sized batá drums

Question 26

Creyente

Answer 26

believer

Question 27

Añá

Answer 27

sacred communicative potential of the batá - “The sacred inner power of the batá drum” – rarely discussed and gendered

Question 28

Chaworo

Answer 28

the brass bells (of Ochún) attached to the iyá drum

Question 29

Montar (mount) y Coger (take)

Answer 29

verbs most commonly used in relation to the manifestation of the orisha

Question 30

Three female orishas as representing aspects of “womankind

Answer 30

Ochún, Yemayá, and Oyá.

Question 31

Ochún/Oshun

Answer 31

River water, purity, fertility, love, and sensuality

Question 32

Changó (Shango)

Answer 32

major deity of the religion of the Yoruba

Question 33

Yemayá

Answer 33

motherly and strongly protective

Question 34

Aro

Answer 34

prayer sung above a quickening rhythm at the end of Yemayás tratao Sacred performance