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AFS 24 North Carolina State University Introduction to African Study Questions

 

I’m working on a african studies practice test / quiz and need an explanation to help me understand better.

1.List the three main tracks on the Evolution of African American Music chart by Portia Maultsby, ethnomusicologist. 

2.Define Black Aesthetic according to Maulana Karenga.         

3.Name 3 of the jazz periods or styles that Miles Davis contributed to or was an innovator of. 

4.Place Gordon Parks into context relative to the significance of his cultural output. 

5.Identify 3 significant Black women writers by name, the genre or type of their published work, and the title of their book. 

6. List the ten plays of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle.  

7. Identify and describe what was the most interesting or significant aspect of Black Futurism/Afrofuturism in Greg Tate’s essay “Kalahari Hopscotch, or Notes toward a Twenty-Volume Afrocentric Futurist Manifesto.” 

8. Name three contributors to Black Psychology and their  contributions.