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What is the purpose of batá drums in the Santería tradition? Click or tap a choice to answer the question.

What is the meaning of the term plainchant?

What does the term communitas refer to?   a feeling of moving beyond the self to merge with a broader community the service of Christian worship at which bread and wine are consecrated and shareda group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common

What does the term zema refer to?

How many languages are there in South Africa’s “New Anthem”?

The new South African national anthem consists of four verses in four different languages: Zulu and Sesotho in two versions of the chorus from Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, and Afrikaans and French.

In considering musical displays of power, which of the following is an example of a hidden transcript?

Which traditional Native American musical practice has been reinforced by contemporary events?

What musical feature is common to both Tuvan khoomii singing and Tibetan Buddhist chant? a distinctive vocal style that generates a deep, fundamental pitch that produces audible harmonics melodies in a pentatonic mode with a relatively narrow vocal rangea complex counterpoint based on set harmonic changes

What major factor brought about changes in Ethiopian Christian Orthodox musical practice, such as the development of Sunday School songs and the increased participation of women in music and ritual practice?