FINAL exam in-class notes - Mu12

Mu12

New Orleans, Congo Square

drumming allowed for black artists

Frontline - Early New Orleans Jazz

trumpet, clarinet, trombone

Parlor Song

A song meant to be sung at home, popular in the 1800s

Minstrelsy - A form of entertainment using racist parodies of African Americans

blackface; instrumentation: bones, banjo, fiddle, narrator

Ragtime

piano, famous artist: scott joplin, highly syncopated

Delta Blues

solo, guitar, voice, typically blind artists, famous artist: Robert Johnson

1929 - electronic revolution

broadcasting, radio, recording, amplification (microphones, guitar)

Bebop

modern jazz, complex, fast, assertive; famous artist: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie

Bluegrass

high lonesome, breakneck tempos; instrumentation: fiddle, banjo, mandolin; famous artist: Bill Monroe

Muddy Waters

Early Electric Blues

Shuffle Blues

swing 8ths, 12 bar blues

Doo-wop

nonsense syllables, famous artist: the flamingos “only have eyes for you”; male quintets

Rock Era producers

Lieber and Stoller, King and Goffin

1960s cultural revolution

anti-war, women’s rights, LSD use, civil rights, sexual freedom

Stream of Consciousness Lyrics - famous artist:

Bob Dylan

British Invasion - wave of British bands in the 1960s that became popular in America

famous artist: The Beatles, range of styles, experimental melodic sense

Jimi Hendrix

late 1960s, electric guitarist, innovator

Berry Gordy

MOTOWN records founder

Aretha Franklin

“Queen of Soul”; famous song “R.E.S.P.E.C.T”

Psychedelic (acid) Rock (1960s)

drug-inspired; artists: Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane