According to Worlds of Music, what are some of the questions about the Arab world and, by extension, the Middle East, which the chapter has answered by its investigation into music from this culture area? (Answers may vary.)

What will be an ideal response?

• ". . . answer questions regarding geography, history, and material culture
• . . . use the music as a way to explore issues of ethnicity and identity, aesthetics, gender, and spirituality
• . . . [a] consideration of this music in its cultural context . . . lead[ing] us to think about the function of music in the culture of diaspora
• . . . investigate the biographies of individual musicians and audience members. . lead[ing] to
• a discussion of the roots of their individual musical worlds and the routes their musical paths have taken over time. This might bring us to the
• larger themes of diaspora, cultural genocide, and the political economy of music.
• Finally we could try to figure out what the music means and to whom?"