Part I Term and Name Identification (Matching)

Name______Professor______

Rhythms of Resistance, MSI Summer 2003

Professors Buckmire, Freer and Pillich

Final Exam

Part I— TERMS AND NAMES Write a short sentence defining or identifying twenty (20) of the following words, names and concepts (40 points total).

a.  Afrika Bambaata

b.  Alien and Sedition Act

c.  Audobon Ballroom

d.  boogaloo

e.  coverture

f.  Dub

g.  Fordism

h.  GLAAD

i.  griot

j.  heterogeneity

k.  “hidden transcripts”

l.  imminent

m.  The Last Poets

n.  libel

o.  Count Machuki

p.  jus soli

q.  Robert Moses

r.  New Braunfels

s.  nihilism

t.  palimpsest

u.  Jenny Rivera

v.  strophic

w.  symbiosis

x.  Storyville

y.  "the dozens"

z.  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Part II—Short essay questions (10 points each, 60 points total): Give as much detail as possible and give examples where appropriate. Write at least one full paragraph on 6 (SIX) of the following topics. NOTE: YOU MUST SELECT AT LEAST TWO OF THE FIRST FOUR QUOTES.

1. “For the first time in human history, anything can be made anywhere and sold everywhere.”

2. “Money, Power, Respect”

3. “At the confluence of two or more genetic streams, with chromosomes constantly ‘crossing over,’ this mixture of races, rather than resulting in an inferior being, provides hybrid progeny, a mutable, more malleable species with a rich gene pool.”

4. “Pastoral scene of the gallant South /The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth”

5. Transnationalism

6. Binary opposition

7. Intersexuality

8. Intertextuality

9. Freedom of expression

10. Hate crimes versus hate speech

11. Chain of signifiers

12. Postmodernism

Part III—ESSAY QUESTION. (100 points total.) Choose EITHER (A) or (B).

A. Contrast and compare two or more of the following musics (“Strange Fruit,” isicathamiya, corridos, narcocorridos and rap) and analyze how they relate to the themes of the course (music, representation and social change). While you may use either isicathamiya or corridos your well-structured, thesis-driven, grammatical essay must not use both terms. Be sure to support your arguments with evidence drawn from the course readings and lectures and co-curricular activities. You should demonstrate your understanding of authors’ arguments and new concepts presented in the class.

B. Angela Davis writes

Art never achieves greatness through transcendence of sociohistorical reality. On the contrary, even as it transcends specific circumstances and conventions, it is deeply rooted in social realities. As Herbert Marcuse has pointed out, it is at its best when it fashions new perspectives on the human condition, provokes critical attitudes and encourages loyalty “to the vision of a better world, a vision which remains true even in defeat.” (183)

Analyze how the musics (“Strange Fruit,” isicathamiya, corridos, narcocorridos and rap) can be used to contradict or support this observation. Be sure to support your arguments with evidence drawn from the course readings and lectures and co-curricular activities. You should demonstrate your understanding of authors’ arguments and new concepts presented in the class.