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Folk Traditions & Popular Music Flashcards

1
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ritualized vocalizing of black american workers

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work songs and field hollers

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2
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sang to pace manual labor, express loneliness

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work songs and field hollers

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3
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unaccompanied, stomping, clapping

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work songs and field hollers

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4
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“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

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Paul Robeson

gospel

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5
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solo singing, group singing, piano, organ, call and response, melisma

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gospel

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6
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melisma

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singing of a single syllable while moving between several pitches

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7
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gospel lyrics

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often had double meaning

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8
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“gospel music” termed

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1930s

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9
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Father of (modern) gospel music

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Thomas A. Dorsey

Georgia Tom- as a blues pianist

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10
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Queen of gospel

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Mahalia Jackson

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11
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“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”

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Thomas A. Dorsey
(Mahalia Jackson also sang it at some point)
gospel

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12
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Gospel singer and guitarist, precursor of rock & roll, influenced Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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13
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James Cleveland

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gospel singer and pianist

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14
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Edwin Hawkings

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gospel

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15
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“Up Above My Head”

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

gospel

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16
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popular entertainment, combination of songs, dances, comic sketches

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Minstrelsy

17
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when did minstrelsy originate

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~1830

18
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first minstrelsy performer

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George Washington Dixon

19
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exaggeration of skin color, facial features, speech, gestures

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minstrelsy

20
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Jim Crow & Zip Coon

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minstrelsy characters based on racial stereotyping

21
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“De Boatmen’s Dance”

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Dan Emmett

minstrelsy

22
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unique instrument for minstrelsy

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bones

23
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TOBA

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Theatre Owners and Booking Agency

24
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Father of the minstrel show

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Thomas “Daddy” Rice

25
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Dan Emmett

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minstrel performer and composer

26
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Father of american music

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Stephen Foster

27
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“Oh Susanna”

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Stephen Foster

28
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James Bland

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African american minstrel performer and composer

29
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Godmother of Rock and Roll

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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