Question ID:PT87 S1 Q26 Passage:Passage A is adapted from a book by a music historian, and passage B from an anthropology journal.Passage AMany commentators have described the blues musician of the United States as an extension of the griot of West Africa, yet one could hardly find two performers with less in common from a sociological perspective. Griots were the historians of their communities, representatives of time-honored traditions, the preservers of lore and cultural identity. They took these traditions and transformed them into song, and as a result often enjoyed great status in their communities. In societies that lacked libraries and museums, official documents and archives, the griot's song filled many of the roles that these institutions serve in other societies.The blues musician, in contrast, honed a music of personal expression, often reflecting a lack of connection to the broader streams of society, evoking feelings of alienation and anomie. Slavery caused this terrible disjunction. Slavery destroyed in large part the traditional social fabric, the communal values, the historical continuities that made the griot's art possible. Blues music was, in many ways, a response to this deprivation.And here we encounter the fundamental tragedy of the blues and one of the sources of its unparalleled symbolic power. For the music sings of small, everyday details of individual lives. But behind this facade always sits a larger reality, invariably unspoken, but no less present for this silence. Separated from the social institutions that gave life its meaning and resonance within their traditional societies, African Americans struggled to find substitutes for what was lost within the smaller cosmos of their personal relationships and daily life. Blues music reflected this dynamic, gave it powerful poetic expression. From this perspective, the perennial themes of blues music‚ heartache and hardships‚ capture in a personal dimension the larger social truth.Passage BFifteenth-century Portuguese explorers observed a stratified social hierarchy in the Wolof culture of Senegal, with a high-status noble sector (g√©er) and low-status caste groups (√±ee√±o). Wolof elites of the day ranked √±ee√±o in six subcastes, the lowest of which was griot.Griots alone specialized in the spoken word. Raising one's voice in public was considered inappropriate for socially prominent people, but griots, considered unmarriageable outside their caste, shouted and sang their patrons' praises to crowds of people, often with a drum, and always with great eloquence.At community gatherings, griots accompanied their patrons, with whom they had usually inherited a close relationship through generations of service. Reciting vivid histories about the brave deeds of their patrons' family ancestors and singing praises about their exemplary work and daily conduct, griots used their music to sway public opinion in favor of their patrons. Their songs invoked specific public values and described their patrons' adherence to them, making the griot a blend of community historian, storyteller, spokesperson, and ultimately, guardian of norms and culture. Despite the griots' public loudness, these performances and the prestige they brought their patrons required griots to be sensitive to Wolof community values and conceptions of correct social conduct. Stem:Passage B suggests that which one of the following was true of fifteenth-century Wolof society? Correct Answer Choice:BChoice A:The society's sense of shared communal values was beginning to unravel. Choice B:Public shouting and loud singing were acceptable only among lower social classes. Choice C:People who served as guardians of societal norms and culture generally enjoyed high social status. Choice D:Powerful nobles relied on numerous methods to preserve their social status. Choice E:Only members of the highest social class had a conception of correct social conduct.