MAS 337 Exam 1 Questions and Correct Answers
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"Aires Fandango" is an example of Mayapax music. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -True
"Himno Nacional" is important as a symbol in Mexico's construction of nationhood. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -True
"Las ratas no tienen alas" is a hit rock song by the Mexican band, Maldita Vecindad, expressing
the comparison of the Mexican police to rats who persecute ordinary citizens - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -False
"Sobre las olas" is a famous zarzuela composed by Juventino Rosas. - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ -False
"Ultimas Variaciones para Piano" represents Mexico's: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -All of the
Above:
- desire to emulate fashionable European-style music
- ability to create music on par with other parts of the world
- stratification of social and economic classes
A 12-beat phrase divided into two groups of six beats with varying accentuation sometimes felt
in two, sometimes in three - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Sesquialtera
A derogatory term for preferring things foreign as better and more valuable - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Malinchismo
, A feminist critique of some of the golden era Mexican films is that women characters are
portrayed as both saints who are dependent upon men and sinners who control men through
temptation, not as a person with complex feelings, motivations, and abilities - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -True
A unique economic and living space for mariachi musicians in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles is
called? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Mariachi Plaza
Adaptation of European violin and dance music, that helped rally Mayas to rebellion -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Mayapax
Amparo Ochoa was one of the most celebrated and influential singers who performed songs of
social concern and helped to develop the musical tradition of canto nuevo (nueva cancion) in
Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -True
Ballads narrating stories that became popular during the Mexican Revolution - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Corridos
Chambas refer to gigs played by a mariachi ensemble who typically works together - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -True
Contemporary topics of corridos include - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -All of the Above (US
immigration, mexican work ethic, drug trafficking)
Counter-cultural song movement that spread throughout the American in the 1980s - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Nueva Cancion
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"Aires Fandango" is an example of Mayapax music. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -True
"Himno Nacional" is important as a symbol in Mexico's construction of nationhood. -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -True
"Las ratas no tienen alas" is a hit rock song by the Mexican band, Maldita Vecindad, expressing
the comparison of the Mexican police to rats who persecute ordinary citizens - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -False
"Sobre las olas" is a famous zarzuela composed by Juventino Rosas. - CORRECT ANSWER
✔✔ -False
"Ultimas Variaciones para Piano" represents Mexico's: - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -All of the
Above:
- desire to emulate fashionable European-style music
- ability to create music on par with other parts of the world
- stratification of social and economic classes
A 12-beat phrase divided into two groups of six beats with varying accentuation sometimes felt
in two, sometimes in three - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Sesquialtera
A derogatory term for preferring things foreign as better and more valuable - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Malinchismo
, A feminist critique of some of the golden era Mexican films is that women characters are
portrayed as both saints who are dependent upon men and sinners who control men through
temptation, not as a person with complex feelings, motivations, and abilities - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -True
A unique economic and living space for mariachi musicians in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles is
called? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Mariachi Plaza
Adaptation of European violin and dance music, that helped rally Mayas to rebellion -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -Mayapax
Amparo Ochoa was one of the most celebrated and influential singers who performed songs of
social concern and helped to develop the musical tradition of canto nuevo (nueva cancion) in
Mexico - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -True
Ballads narrating stories that became popular during the Mexican Revolution - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Corridos
Chambas refer to gigs played by a mariachi ensemble who typically works together - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -True
Contemporary topics of corridos include - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔ -All of the Above (US
immigration, mexican work ethic, drug trafficking)
Counter-cultural song movement that spread throughout the American in the 1980s - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔✔ -Nueva Cancion
