Extra Credit and chapter 12
South Asia
1. Why does Indian classical tradition dominate the musical image of South Asia in the west?
2. Discuss the following terms important to a Hindustani classical music performance: Raga, Alap, Gat, Tala, Rasa.
3. Compare and contrast Hindustani and Carnatic music traditions.
4. How do filmi songs differ from Qawwali songs?
5. In what ways is Indian music spiritual?
6. What made India and Indian music attractive to the “world traveler” or “hippy” generation of the 1960s and 1970s?
Southeast Asia
1. To what extent are the terms classical, folk, and popular appropriate labels for describing Southeast Asian Music?
2. What are some factors that help maintain traditional Southeast Asian music in the face of modernization?
3. Metrical cycles are characteristic of many Southeast Asian music. How do they work in the sites reviewed?
4. How do the types of “heterophony” found in Vietnamese Tai Thu, Thai Piphat, and Javanese Gamelan differ?
5. Though Thailand and Vietnam are both part of Southeast Asian, what historical and cultural factors have determined the present musical differences?
6. Compare Javanese and Balinese Gamelan in terms of their function and use. How do their differing functions affect their respective musical styles?
East Asia
1. How do attitudes toward traditionality and modernization affect music differently in china than they do in Japan and South Korea
2. In China how did the Cultural Revolution affect the development of music and the theater?
3. How are the aesthetics of music in japan shaped by both Confucianism and Buddhism?
4. How are the types of East Asian theater different from theater and opera in the West?
5. What spiritual role does music play in Tibetan Buddhist ritual?
6. Discuss East Asian attitudes toward professional musicians and actors and explain why amateur music-making was held