MUSIC 26AC Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Percussion Instrument, Black People, African-American Music
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Importance of instilling american patriotism in youth: started with irving boy scout choir, triumphant background music. West shows: pow-wows were kept alive, 1950s relocation to urban centers. Afri(cid:272)a(cid:374) musi(cid:272) i(cid:374) the a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)as september 4, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)7: ring shout and the bomba, trans-atlantic slave trade (17th-19th century, musical/cultural features and practices. In music: rhythmic/percussive emphasis, call and response form, dense textures/layers different pitches, not much space in air. Ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374) a(cid:373)e(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374) musi(cid:272) september 7, (cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1005)7: spirituals, cultu(cid:396)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t/(cid:863)(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e(cid:863, (cid:862)af(cid:396)i(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)eu(cid:396)opea(cid:374)(cid:863) aestheti(cid:272)s, musical and social features. Less violent, less sexual, less magical: more nonsensical, use examples from different song collectors to show differences. Language is way for people to understand the people who are around them. American: sometimes two different national societies, or can also involve political identities, flores. How are these dynamics typified in the corridos (170-171): mistrust, thievery banditry, unified fronts. Jug: provides the bass notes to a song: forked deer: southern string band that was led by a fiddler.
