Music 203 Connell JMU exam 2

"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