MSC HST 5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: New San Antonio Rose, Carter Family, Sixty Minute Man
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60 minute man is huge signifying, same for ray charles and ruth brown. Country blues: one singer and a guitar, lower class, catered towards rural working class, more improvisation, more unpretentious and masculine, person telling personal struggles. Urban blues: came after second migration, electricity, amplification, electric guitar, targeted for middle class african americans, traces of european aesthetic common in the. North (more rules and less improv), had jazz band, always had as big of a band as they could afford. The carter family: maybelle"s guitar (low string melody and high string harmonic support) and sarah"s vocals. Appalachian string band: fiddle, bathtub bass (barefoot larry), banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dulcimer, autoharp. Yodeling, high lonesome sound, blues notes, sang about personal struggle. Ruth brown: smooth, uptown r&b: blues, pop, jazz. Race relations in music: started as a form of resistance (signifying, work song)
