World Music Traditions

What this quiz asks

• Which Portuguese singer, nicknamed the Queen of Fado, carried the genre around the world?
• Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer formed the core of which Jamaican group?
• Flamenco comes from the southern Spanish region of Andalusia.
• Argentine tango's signature instrument is a square cousin of this one, invented in Germany. What is it called?
• In a samba school's drum section, which friction drum makes a squeaking, almost laughing sound?
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was the most famous voice of which Sufi devotional music?
• Which trio's 1992 debut is widely credited with launching modern K-pop?
• Select ALL of these music styles that were born in Brazil.
• Order these Jamaican music styles by when they emerged, earliest first.
• Did the cajón, the box drum now heard in so much flamenco, originate in Peru?
• Cesária Évora, the Barefoot Diva, was the great voice of morna from which country?
• Which musician pioneered Afrobeat, a blend of highlife, jazz and funk, in 1970s Lagos?
• Throat singers from Tuva and Mongolia can sing two distinct pitches at the same time.
• Traditional gamelan ensembles of Java and Bali are built mainly around which instruments?
• In what year did João Gilberto release Chega de Saudade, often called the first bossa nova record?
• Select ALL of these instruments that belong in a traditional Mexican mariachi band.
• Which Greek urban song style, often called the Greek blues, is built around the bouzouki?
• In Indian classical music, what is a raga?
• Salsa took shape in the 1960s and 1970s in which city, largely through the label Fania Records?
• Which Jamaican group released Do the Reggay in 1968, one of the first records to name the new genre?