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MUS 114: World Music Cultures: Sound, Setting, and Significance

Keywords & Themes

Here's some keywords to use in your searches. Remember to use terms that will narrow your search!

  • Accordion
  • Afrobeats
  • Afro Celt Sound System
  • Angélique Kidjo
  • Anouar Brahem
  • Bagpipes
  • Balafon
  • Balkan brass
  • Bamboo flute
  • Batucada
  • Bossa Nova
  • Bolero
  • Carmen Miranda
  • Celia Cruz
  • Celtic folk
  • Choro, also popularly called Chorinho
  • Classical
  • Clementina de Jesus
  • Daoirí Farrell
  • Ernesto Joaquim Maria dos Santos aka Donga
  • Fanfare Ciocărlia
  • Fiddle
  • Fela Kuti
  • Folk
  • Gaelic music
  • Ganzá
  • Guaracha
  • Guzheng
  • Hammered dulcimer
  • Hariprasad Chaurasia
  • Harp  
  • Heitor dos Prazeres
  • Hugh Masekela
  • Hurdy-gurdy
  • Ismael Silva
  • Jazz
  • Jessye Norman
  • João Gilberto
  • Joan Sutherland
  • Julie Fowlis
  • Kaia Kater'
  • Kantele
  • Klezmer Fiddle
  • Kora
  • Koto
  • Leontyne Price
  • Luciano Pavarotti
  • Lupicínio Rodrigues
  • Mambo
  • Mande music
  • Mandolin
  • Manu Chao
  • Maria Callas
  • Master Musicians of Jajouka
  • Maxixe 
  • Merceditas Valdés
  • Morin huur
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  • Pagode
  • Pandeiro
  • Plácido Domingo
  • Polka
  • Pop (Popular music)
  • Pedro Knight
  • Orchestra Baobab
  • Oito Batutas
  • Oumou Sangaré
  • Opera
  • Reggae
  • Rock-n-Roll
  • Rumba
  • Salsa
  • Samba
  • Santería music
  • Selena
  • Showtunes
  • Soprano
  • Steel drum
  • Tabla drums
  • Tango
  • Tia Ciata
  • Tito Puente
  • Toumani Diabaté 
  • Wilson Batista
  • Xylophone

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Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources

What the difference between a primary, secondary, and tertiary source?

  • Primary sources are created as close to the original event or phenomenon as it is possible to be. For example, a photograph or video of an event is a primary source. Data from an experiment is a primary source.
  • Secondary sources are one step removed from that. Secondary sources are based on or about the primary sources. For example, articles and books in which authors interpret data from another research team's experiment or archival footage of an event are usually considered secondary sources.
  • Tertiary sources are one further step removed from that. Tertiary sources summarize or synthesize the research in secondary sources. For example, textbooks and reference books are tertiary sources (Text in this section is from Suny Empire College's guide: Research Skills Tutorial).

Why is this important?

  • For your research assignments, you are asked to find primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. You'll need to be able to recognize the difference between all three. Remember primary sources are about the event. Secondary sources analyze the event and interpret another author's work. Tertiary sources summarize events from other authors after the event has occurred. 

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