Two features that distinguish the history of the vast African continent are the dominance of a kinship system that forms the basis of social and communal organization, and a(n) ________ view of nature.

Who used free improvisation, imagination, and reconstructing pop songs as platforms for his inventive melodic piano improvisations?

a) John Zorn b) Brad Mehldau c) Greg Osby d) Don Byron

What scale did Dvo?ák consider to be common among the folk music of African-American and Native American traditions?

a) octatonic b) blues c) pentatonic d) tetrachordal