View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Jewels Brought from Bondage, Black Music and the Politics of Authenticity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What image does Gilroy use as an emblem of the experience his book will describe?
(a) The livery coat.
(b) The hangman's noose.
(c) The slave ship.
(d) The slave plantation.

2. What language does Gilroy say sometimes dominates the language of racial emancipation in black music?
(a) Power.
(b) Industry.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Technology.

3. How does Gilroy describe Afro-Atlantic culture's place in Western culture?
(a) Secure.
(b) Unsteady.
(c) Tenuous.
(d) Temporary.

4. What does Gilroy say blacks search for in spite of the fragmentation of musical genres and traditions?
(a) African roots.
(b) Core blackness.
(c) Tools for assimilating.
(d) More innovative musical forms.

5. What does Gilroy say about music's status in culture?
(a) It should be recognized as a form of communication.
(b) It should be appreciated as an art form.
(c) It should be used as a political tool.
(d) It should be higher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image did English fans have of what a black performer should be like?

2. How does Gilroy say slaves used music?

3. What kind of relation did Martin Robison Delany foresee between English capital, black American intellect and African labor?

4. What does Gilroy say about the Enlightenment notion of universality?

5. What role has music played in debates of modernity according to Gilroy?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 299 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample