Ethnomusicology: Study Sheet 
MUS 105 (021) Test II Study Sheet
Review of misunderstood concepts from the first half of the term
We looked at four main musical textures this term (monophony, heterophony, homophony, polyphony). Be sure you can define them, and give an example of songs we sang for each one.
Week Seven Jailhouse Blues
In the preface to his book Wake up Dead Man, Bruce Jackson traces the southern agricultural prison farm to which earlier system?
What are the two functions of the prison work songs?
What change in the prison farm system ended these work songs?
What do the notes for the album Jailhouse Blues say about Parchman Penitentiary, and specifically about the conditions that the women there experienced? (LOOK AT LINER NOTES DOCUMENT)
Chapter 5: Music As Culture (65-78)
Rice defines culture as “all forms of human knowledge, creativity and values, and their expression in music, language, cosmology, religion, ethics, plastic arts, dance, the making and use of tools, dwellings, cooking, clothing, and body decorations.” What is a simpler definition?
This chapter looks at five specific topics in music and culture, what are three others that Rice lists?
Local concepts about music
How do the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea use their knowledge of the world around them to create a systematic music theory?
Music teaching and learning John Blacking studied the Venda people of South Africa and found that everyone learns how to make music – that it is considered, like language, an essential part of life. How does this compare to modern capitalist economies? What does he say this does to the
“quality of human existence”?
Rice focuses on the question “who gets to learn music?” in this section. What are some specific examples of ways that music learning is restricted based on class, race, ethnicity, age, or gender? (use the examples discussed in the text, or others mentioned in class)
Identity and music
This section focuses on the role of music in constructing individual identities.
Review of misunderstood concepts from the first half of the term
We looked at four main musical textures this term (monophony, heterophony, homophony, polyphony). Be sure you can define them, and give an example of songs we sang for each one.
Week Seven Jailhouse Blues
In the preface to his book Wake up Dead Man, Bruce Jackson traces the southern agricultural prison farm to which earlier system?
What are the two functions of the prison work songs?
What change in the prison farm system ended these work songs?
What do the notes for the album Jailhouse Blues say about Parchman Penitentiary, and specifically about the conditions that the women there experienced? (LOOK AT LINER NOTES DOCUMENT)
Chapter 5: Music As Culture (65-78)
Rice defines culture as “all forms of human knowledge, creativity and values, and their expression in music, language, cosmology, religion, ethics, plastic arts, dance, the making and use of tools, dwellings, cooking, clothing, and body decorations.” What is a simpler definition?
This chapter looks at five specific topics in music and culture, what are three others that Rice lists?
Local concepts about music
How do the Kaluli of Papua New Guinea use their knowledge of the world around them to create a systematic music theory?
Music teaching and learning John Blacking studied the Venda people of South Africa and found that everyone learns how to make music – that it is considered, like language, an essential part of life. How does this compare to modern capitalist economies? What does he say this does to the
“quality of human existence”?
Rice focuses on the question “who gets to learn music?” in this section. What are some specific examples of ways that music learning is restricted based on class, race, ethnicity, age, or gender? (use the examples discussed in the text, or others mentioned in class)
Identity and music
This section focuses on the role of music in constructing individual identities.