MUSIC102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Religious Ecstasy, Berry Gordy, Tambourine
27 Jun 2018
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STAX: OTIS REDDING (Mayor of Soulsville)
- Stax was a recording company in Memphis, Tennessee
- Otis Redding (1941-1967)
- “Stay in School”
- Public service announcement
- Can hear the brass
- Stax music was about a voice and the accompaniment
- Feeling that he is speaking to you
“The North” and “The South”
- Civil war fought about rights of southern states to keep people in slavery
- Most black people fought for the north
- After the war, there were many plantations that were destroyed and open (unemployed)
- Sharecropping: system in which landowners could keep their land, there were people
who worked the section of the land and they were paid back a small portion of the yield
- Definition: the system by which freed slaves and poor whites worked the land of
landholders in exchange for a portion of the production
- Redding’s father was a sharecropper
- Reconstruction: The period after the American Civil War when the society and
agriculture of the American South were reimagined and reconstructed
- 1865-1877
- In the south, there was quite a number of elected black officials
- Brief window of reconstruction that was quickly shut down by Jim Crowe laws
What does Redding mean by “country”?
- To do with sharecropping (????)
Delta Blues Tradition:
- Rural songs sung by African-Americans
- Both a form and a mood
- Means of expression
- Originally played, then recorded later
Juke Joint:
- A small bar or shack in black communities of rural south, where blues music and social
dancing took place on weekend nights
- See slide for pic
- Social experience that Redding was aiming for in his music
African American Gospel Music:
- All about the spirit, and spontaneous music that can bring the listener to a “higher place”
- Organ, piano, solo, harmony, participation, spontaneity
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Document Summary
Stax was a recording company in memphis, tennessee. Stax music was about a voice and the accompaniment. Civil war fought about rights of southern states to keep people in slavery. Most black people fought for the north. After the war, there were many plantations that were destroyed and open (unemployed) Sharecropping: system in which landowners could keep their land, there were people who worked the section of the land and they were paid back a small portion of the yield. Definition: the system by which freed slaves and poor whites worked the land of landholders in exchange for a portion of the production. Reconstruction: the period after the american civil war when the society and agriculture of the american south were reimagined and reconstructed. In the south, there was quite a number of elected black officials. Brief window of reconstruction that was quickly shut down by jim crowe laws.
