Briefly describe how the Forest People use their music-culture to ...

[nmorano1]

Briefly describe how the Forest People use their music-culture to achieve the following:
  --Restoring Balance,
  --Enacting Values and Creating Self, and
  --Autonomy Within Community
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Below are the headings listed in this section. Briefly fill in the following chart as the headings/terms pertain to Makala. (See also accompanying Close Listening chart in WOM, p. 102.)
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[parker125]

Answer to Question 1

 Their communal singing wakes the forest, and restores their balance with nature. As their yodels echo off the trees, the forest physically becomes one of the musicians.
 Improvised, open-ended polyphony reinforces cooperation and other communal values while, at the same time, helping individuals develop identity within a group. (Enacting Values and Creating Self)
 Individuals within the BaAka community stand out; the identity of composers of particular songs and repertories is known, specific teacher-student transmission of the music-culture occurs, and individual performers standout. (Autonomy Within Community)

Answer to Question 2

--Setting: a performance event (eboka) of Mabo, a type of music and dance associated with net hunting. The purpose of presenting this song was partly ritual (preparation for hunting) and partly for the pleasure of learning new songs and