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| A Free aerophone with reeds that are hidden within two rectangular headboards that are connected by a folding bellows, with keys or buttons to play a melody and chords. |
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| A button accordion associated with the tango. |
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| A type of urban gaucho reputed to be both Don Juan and pimp. |
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| The Argentinian word for Cowboy |
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| An Argentinian-derived style of song and dance. |
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| A rhythmic effect that provides an unexpected accent, often temporarily unsettling the meter through a change in the established pattern of stressed and unstressed beats. |
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| A tightly choreographed men’s group dance, originally from the Punjab region of North India and Pakistan, with pronounced leg and shoulder movements and occasional waving of arms high overhead. |
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| A double-headed South Asian membranophone associated with bhangra. |
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| A dance performed by Punjabi women that is equivalent to the male bhangra. |
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| A fast dance in duple meter that has become identified with the Polish peoples, although it originated in Bohemia. |
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| A distinctive style of accordion music, popular among Mexican-Americans. |
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| Includes: accordion, guitar, bass and percussion. |
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| A style of urban Jamaican popular music that originated among the Rastafarians of Jamaica in the 1960s. |
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| A religious movement from Jamaica whose adherents venerate the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie |
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| Ethiopian emperor – Haile Selassie. |
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| Powwow in the Algonquian language |
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| Native American social gatherings that feature ceremonies, celebrations and dance comptetitions. |
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| A Native American song performed during a powwow flag ceremony to honor the American flag. |
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| A Native American virtuosic war dance performed by men. |
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| A dignified, traditional dance performed by Native American women with shawls draped over their arms. |
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| Native American women’s dance in present-day powwows, named after the metal jingles that cover festive dresses |
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| A Native American women’s dance at powwows named after the fringed regalia worn in performance |
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| A vocal sound of joy or celebration commonly produced by women in Africa and the Middle East |
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| An end-blown Middle Eastern flute whose sound has a breathy quality. |
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| Traditional Persian musical system consisting of a number of categories of melody that are distinguished by pitch content, melodic contours, and ornamentation. |
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| A Middle Eastern membranophone with a goblet shape. |
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| A corruption of the term “Acadian,” a French-speaking people in Louisiana; their style of music; their cultural life. |
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| A Cajun term meaning dance music; the dance halls where such music is performed. |
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| (1) A name used for the violin in the context of a wide range of Euro-American folk and vernacular musics. (2) Any bowed instrument of the lute family. |
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| Dance music that emerged in the 1950s among the Creoles of the Gulf Coast. The name is said to derive from the French expression “the beans.” |
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| A scraped idiophone made of metal, used in the zydeco tradition (wash board, Froittoir). |
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| Literally “empty orchestra”; live singing, usually into a microphone, with a recorded accompaniment, performed in restaurants, clubs, or private homes. |
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| A Japanese aesthetic principle, literally “patterned form.” |
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| A genre of popular song with melodramatic themes of love, used in Japanese karaoke. |
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| A long-short rhythmic pattern consisting of a long beat followed by one that is half its duration. |
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| Tango music instrumental form consisting of piano, violin, and bandoneon. Later expanded to include, up to, four bandoneones; a string section with violins, a cello, a double bass and a piano. |
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| Scums, outskirts, outlying areas. |
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| Created a purely instrumental “new tango” one intended not for dancing but for the concert hall. His most famous tango is: Adios Nonino and Quinteto Tango Nuevo |
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| Singer most responsible for the internationalization of the tango. Performs the song La Cumparsita |
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| A place or event where tango is danced. |
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| One of the eight forms of Indian classical dances, originated from Uttar Pradesh, India |
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| A lively form of music and dance that originated in the Punjab region in Pakistan. It is slower and more rhythmic form of bhangra and is a dance of ecstasy. |
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| A pair of Punjabi woodwind instruments. It resembles a pair of wooden flutes. |
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| Literally means tongs. This instrument is often used in popular Punjabi folk songs. |
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| An hourglass-shaped gourd with stretched skin on heads. A thick cord or string pierces the center of the skin and a knob of wood is tied to the other end of the string. |
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| A West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe |
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| Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch and British rule |
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| A music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s. Emphasized the off-beats in a quadruple rhythmic pattern |
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| A music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966. Slower than ska and anchored by a drum and bass line; the text discussed freedom and equality. |
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| was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963–1974), and who afterwards had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari. |
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| a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the ska, rocksteady and regga. |
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