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“Sheep Sheep Don’t You Know the Road”

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Bessie Jones (Georgia Sea Islands)

Call and Response/ Strophic/ Improve

Monophony/Homophony

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“The Boatman’s Dance”

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Dan Emmett

Minstrel Show song with Irish Influence

Monophony/Homophony

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“Nobody”

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Bert Williams 1913

Appeals to underdogs of all colors. A little bit of defiance.

Vaudeville

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“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”

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Stephan Foster (1854)
AA’BA
Sentimental Irish style

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“After the Ball”

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Charles Harris

Verse and Chorus (Verse AABA) Ballad

Sold millions of copies.

Triple Meter for Waltz

Tin Pan Alley

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“Maple Leaf Rag”

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Scott Joplin (1898)

Ragtime

Sectional Form
AABBACCDD

Syncopation

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“Castle House Rag”

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James Reese Europe

Clef Club

Rag Time

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“Tiger Rag”

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Original Dixieland Band (1918)

1st Commercial Recording of Jazz

Polyphonic

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“Dippermouth Blues”

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King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923)
Featuring Louis Armstrong
12 bar blues

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“Side by Side”

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Paul Whiteman “The King of Jazz”

More Unified Texture

Mainstreaming of Jazz

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“Mama’s Got the Blues”

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Bessie Smith
12-bar blues harmonic form
Ballad/Strophic
AAB Text form
Sexual Promiscuity
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“West End Blues”

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Earl Hines on Piano (1928)
Louis Armstrong ( and His Hot Five) on Trumpet
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“St. Louis Blues”

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Bessie Smith (1929)
Composed by W.C Handy “Father of the Blues”
Louis Armstrong on Cornet
12 Bar blues w/ aab text

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“Dark Was the Night”

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Blind Willie Johnson
Bluesy Melody
Slide guitar- relationship between voice and guitar

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“Cross Road Blues”

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Robert Johnson (1936)
12 bar blues
aab text form
Relationship with guitar

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“Soldier’s Joy”

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Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers (1929)
Hoedown Hillbilly music
Strophic

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Can the Circle be Unbroken

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The Carter Family
Verse and Chorus
Monophony/Homophony

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“Waiting For a Train”

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Jimmie Rodgers (1928)
Yodeling
New Orleans Jazz Interlude
Hawaiian Steel Guitar

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“Wrappin’ it Up”

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Fletcher Henderson (1934)
Answering Riffs
Big Jazz Band

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“New East St. Louis Toodle-oo”

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Duke Ellington (1937)
Plunger Mute on Trumpet
AABA form twice through

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Pleasure Gardens

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European Entertainment that made way to US

Led to Variety shows and Concerts

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Ethiopian delineator

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From T.D. Rice’s Jim Crow

Virginia Minstrels 1843

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Minstrel Show

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First US popular Culture
Fascination with Black Music
Black Face
Popular entertainment in north. Black entertainers became popular after the civil war.

Peak popularity 1840s-70s

ONE Semi circle with end-men and interlocutor
TWO variety format and stump speech
THREE Final Skit and origin of cakewalk

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Old Folks at Home

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Minstrel Show
AABA
Plantation references
Appeals to white people too

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Subsidized Symphonies
Insecurity vs European Culture Chicago Symphony 1889 For Upper Class
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W.C. Handy
"Father of the Blues" | Musician and Publisher
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Bert Williams
Portrayed in Ethnic Notions as trying to be high class. Note of defiance, but still plays on stereotypes for success. Vaudeville.
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Parlor Music
Piano become affordable and in the home. | Public music education became popular. Music literacy.
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Stephan Foster
1826-1864 Born in Pittsburgh, Irish family. Formal music training. Started out in minstrel circuit, wanted more "refined" songs.
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Tin Pan Alley
1880s Broadway and 28th Focusing on exclusively popular music. Supplied music for Broadway, Radio, Talking Pictures, and Records. Formulaic writing.
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Charles Harris
1867-1930 Jew from Milwaukee First to sell sheet music in millions
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Jews and Music
``` 1880s Immigration from Russia. Opportunity in entertainment industry. Culture of adaptability. Piano and social status. First talking picture about Jewish Immigrants. ```
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Ragtime
Ragging the tune. Popular dance derived from cakewalk. 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair good exposure.
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Scott Joplin
1868-1917 Born in Texas, moved to Missouri Entertainer and Instructor First Piano Rags
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James Reese Europe
1880-1919 Founded Clef Club dance orchestra in 1910 Carnegie Hall concerts Dance Band for Irene and Vernon Castle Band for Af Am 359th Infantry Hellfighters
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Vaudeville
Tony Pastor's Opera House 1865 in NYC because Vaudeville 1881 Family oriented variety show. Circuits of Theaters
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Sound Recording
1877 Phonograph- Edison 1997 Gramophone- Berliner 1901 Talking Machine Co home gramophone 1920 Electronic Recording
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Music Marketing
Sell Jukeboxes Sell Gramophones Records not originally seen as potentially profitable
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Jazz
New Orleans | French Culture and African Culture (Caribbean, Mexican)
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Jazz Singer
``` Black Face Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson) Mistrust of Popular/Commercial Culture Generational Differences/Perserving Tradition Immigrant Experience ```
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Paul Whiteman
The King of Jazz
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Bessie Smith
Empress of the Blues Born in Tennessee Flamboyant and achieved movie fame. Racist Imagery persisted.
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Country Blues
Scouting for field recording | Men, guitarists, solo performance, worship.
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Robert Johnson
Mississippi but traveled alot Inspiration for future blues guitarists Slide guitar
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Radio
1896 Guglielmo Marconi 1st station Pittsburgh KDKA Gran Ole Opry in 1925 Tennessee Border Blasters
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Carter Family
Family and Traditional Values. AP Doc, wife Sara and sis in law Maybelle High lonesome sound Bristol Virginia 1927
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Jimmie Rodgers
Singing Brakeman | Country's 1st big star born in Mississippi
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Fixin to Die Blues
Bukka White Strophic AAB Text form
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New York/ Big Band
Legacy of James Reese Europe | Composer has greater role
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Fletcher Henderson
Dance orchestras played in Harlem for social dancing
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Duke Ellington
Cotton Club 1927 WHITES ONLY | Floor shows and Jungle Music
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Count Basie
New Jersey and played with Moten in Kansas
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One O' Clock Jump
Count Basie 12 bars blues with improv Walking bass Ride Cymbol

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