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"Ragged time"
African America culture
Scott Joplin
Most famous ragtime composer
Ragtime form
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Reactions to Ragtime
Not popular in a lot of places because it was African American culture.
Irving Berlin
A ragtime composer, "King of tin pan alley." He thought ragtime captures the speed and shape of american life.
Stride piano
left hand strides along piano, this is not always a ragtime thing.
Harlem Renaissance
the black culture revival
Rent Parties
Parties where people charged an admission fee to raise money for their rent. Music often played at the event.
James P. Johnson
The father of the stride piano
Fats Waller
Played the piano and sang, was an entertainer. Well known for the song "Ain't Misbehaving"
Social Dancing
White interest in black culture. Fox trot, the Charleston, and swing era.
Vernon and Irene Castle
Taught the tango, premiere dance team.
James Reese Europe
was the director of the black Caberee
Clef club
a black social club, an orchestra with a lot of people.
Hellfighters Band
Led by James Recier, was an all black bad due to the army still being segregated. They read music as well as improvised it.
The Charleston
1920s, it was a major social dance.
Lindy Hop
High energy dances `
The Golden age of Tin Pan Alley
dominated everyones music taste, after microphones became invented is when this really was golden.
Verse-refrain form
intro, rubato
Recordings, microphones
singers no longer need a lot of power to be heard.
Crooning vocalization
intimate vocal styles, almost softly speaking
Fred Astaire
used crooning, well known for song "Cheek to Cheek"
Frank Sinatra
youth idolizes, smooth and sexy tone. Uses the crooning technique.
Delta Blues
Music that developed in the Mississippi river delta
Flexible Form
Allowed the singer to switch it up
Diddley Bow
A one stringed guitar like instrument.
Bottleneck slide guitar
people used a bottleneck to slide up and down the neck of the guitar.
Robert Johnson
Ragtime, minstrel, used call and response
Commercializing the blues
making blues known to the people
W.C. Handy
Father of the blues and the blues industry
Race Records
The music industry's black category
Popular
The music industry's Tin Pan Alley category
Hillbilly
The music industry's southern category
Female singers in blues
allowed people to hear the female perspective
ensamble accompaniment
pianos, bands
Sexual subjects/ double entendre
made things sound sexy, would allude to sexual things but not clearly stated
Bessie Smith
"The empress of blues," gave the cross over appeal so whites and blacks enjoyed her music.
Jump blues
Boogie woogie, was a mix of blues and R&B, associated with Louis Jordan
Louis Jordan
The choo choo boogie, had a lot to do with Jump Blues
Boogie Woogie
Was a cruiser to rock and roll
Muddy Waters
Discovered by Alan Lomax, at first did the delta blues' " I'm your hooch coochie man"
B.B. King
A radio DJ, emphasis on beat electric sound, new urban audiences.
Big Mama Thornton
A woman of blues, "Hound Dog."
Folk and country instruments
string band music
Realism and sentimentality
emotional attachment
Vocal tone and delivery
nasally and accented
Ralph Peer
Recording company scout who found The Carter Family. He mostly wanted black people.
Polk Brockman
A talent scout from Atlanta
Fiddling Carl Johnson
Ralph Peer anf Polk Brockman discovered him and he is known for "Little Ol' Cabin down the Lane"
The Carter Family
3 family members, they represented christian family values
Jimmie Rogers
Guy from Mississippi and he is well known for, "The Singing Brakeman"
Blue Yodel
"T is for Texas" it sounds like the "I wanna go home" song Sandy sings in Spongebob.
Hollywood singing cowboys
Wore western attire
Bob Willis and His Texas Playboys
Country and Big Band Swing
Barn-Dance Programs
any dance that involves the playing of folk music
Grande Ole Opry
The show that had made country music famous
Nashville
Music Industry Center
the Nashville sound
made everything sound happier and brghter
Hank Williams
The Hillbilly Shakespeare, he wrote all of his music rather poetically
Bluegrass
"Authentic" american music
High Lonesome Film
the story of bluegrass
High Lonesome sound
when bluegrass bands used their falsetto voices in harmony
Willie Nelson
Against establishment, wrote a lot of music and was a country showman.
Country Music Association
Born in nashville
Doubleness/ Double consciousness
idea that blacks put on two different 'faces' for whites and blacks.
Civil war: Contraband of war
when the blacks escaped
William Allen, Charles Ware, and Lucy Garrison
They researched african american spirituals, they took it as a very serious study
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Founded in 1870, black Fisk University singers.
Holiness Church
These were songs developed by the preacher, had a lot to do with the blues
Thomas A. Dorsey
Devoted himself to gospel music in 1932. National convention of gospel choir.
Mahalia Jackson
Career stated in 1935, she was known as the queen of gospel
Blind Boys of Alabama
Group of blind men, they were a quartet
Take 6
A gospel quartet, had a lot of thick and rich sounds
Traditional orientation
highly charged rhythmically
Contemporary orientation
entertainment, smooth and polished
Precursors
sing and dance, everyone went to see it.
Audiences in opera
drank beer and ate food, they cheered and they booed.
Jenny Lind
Was brought over by Barnum, people wanted to hear this soprano singer and played for things with her face on it.
George M. Cohan
Wrote Little Johnny Jones, this includes Yankee Doodle Boy, it showed american value
Rogers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma, this show was driven by plot.
Concept musical
1960s symbolic
Mega Musical
Large scale musicals and very high ticket prices
Mexico
south in north america
mestizo culture
indigenous mix of europeans
Mexican son
Mexican folk music
Copla
4 verses in spanish popular songs
Decima
10 verses
Sesquialtera
ratio 3:2
Son Jorocho
made the traditional La Bamba
Arpa (harp)
instrument with 36 strings
Jarana
plays rhythms
Requinto
Basically a spanish guitar
Zapateado
fast footwork, served as percussion
Tarima Platform
a stage
La Bamba
a celebration song
Richie Valens
Most famous mexican rocker
Las Cafeteras
A group from Los Angeles, they created the rebel La Bamba
Mariachi
a flexible style of music, wore cowboys costumes
Trajes de charro
the cowboy costumes
Cuba
main slave port from west africa
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