Spirituals

Question 1

Some inspiration for Black sprituals were… (4)

Answer 1

belief systems from Africa,
Christian teachings encountered in North America,
daily struggles,
and hope for deliverance.

Question 2

Black sprituals were written during ________.

Answer 2

slavery

Question 3

The difference between Black and White sprituals is that black spirituals were written without ________.

Answer 3

freedom

Question 4

Slave Songs of the United States was written in ________.

Answer 4

1867

Question 5

When were the modern recordings of spirituals made by John Lomax?

Answer 5

1933

Question 6

A type of folksong that originated in American revivalist activity between 1740 and the close of the 19th century is known as a ________.

Answer 6

spiritual

Question 7

In early American hymn collections, the term spiritual was applied to….

Answer 7

folk-inspired sacred music.

Question 8

What’s the difference between a hymn/psalm and a spiritual?

Answer 8

hymns or psalms were more “learned” styles of religious songs

Question 9

Who were “authentic” spirituals sung by?

Answer 9

black people who had contact with Christianity sometime before the end of the Civil War in 1866

Question 10

The slave preacher, ________, led his congregation in ________.

Answer 10

George Liele
1773

Question 11

The two classes of slave were ________ slaves and ________ slaves.

Answer 11

house
field

Question 12

The class of slave that received the worst treatment was the ________ slaves.

Answer 12

field

Question 13

Prior to ________(year), the vast majority of enslaved people had no experience with Christianity or formal worship.

Answer 13

1865

Question 14

Spirituals are the legacy of “________” slaves.

Answer 14

Christianized

Question 15

Dock Reed and Vera Hall’s recording of “Everybody Talkin’ About Heaven Ain’t Goin’ There” was recorded in the ________.

Answer 15

1950s

Question 16

Spirituals were passed down through ________.

Answer 16

oral tradition

Question 17

Due to the banning of drums, horns, and other loud instruments, enslaved blacks used ________ as percussion instruments.

Answer 17

their bodies

Question 18

The ring in “ring shout” refers to…

Answer 18

women dancing in a circle.

Question 19

________ were the main percussionists, ________ danced around in a circle, and ________ sang.

Answer 19

Men
women
everyone

Question 20

Describe the call and response structure

Answer 20

the lead sings a line and teh backup singers respond in the form of an answer.

Question 21

When were white spirituals originated?

Answer 21

no one knows

Question 22

Scholars began studying white spirituals in ________.

Answer 22

1933

Question 23

The first collection of white spirituals, “White Spirituals In the Southern Uplands” was published in ________.

Answer 23

1933

Question 24

________ is the best known white spiritual.

Answer 24

Wayfaring Stranger

Question 25

Wayfaring Stranger is in ________ form.

Answer 25

ballad, or narrative

Question 26

The "folksong revival" that called attention to white spirituals happend in the ________ century.

Answer 26

20th

Question 27

________ collected tunes, notated them, and published black spirituals in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1883 - 98).

Answer 27

Francis James Child

Question 28

________ focused solely on white spirituals.

Answer 28

George Pullen Jackson

Question 29

The official start of the U.S. folksong revival is usually dated by the commercial success of a vocal group called ________.

Answer 29

the Weavers

Question 30

________ was an early folksong "revivalist" who sang both genres of spirituals.

Answer 30

Burl Ives

Question 31

Tennessee Williams created the role of "________" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for Burl Ives.

Answer 31

Big Daddy

Question 32

Almeda Riddle's singing is completely ________ in her version of Wayfaring Stranger.

Answer 32

unaccompanied

Question 33

The shape of Almeda Riddle's melody in Wayfaring Stranger is like a ________.

Answer 33

rainbow (it starts low, goes high, and returns low)

Question 34

What movie, released in 2000, began a new folksong revival?

Answer 34

O Brother, Where art Thou?

Question 35

________, at the age of 75, won a 2002 Grammy for his O Brother rendition of the Appalachian spiritual, "O, Death."

Answer 35

Ralph Stanley

Question 36

Maggie Greenwald's 2000 film, ________, also helped the 2000 folksong revival.

Answer 36

Songcatcher

Question 37

________ is a harmonized version of American religious song that flourishes throughout the U.S. Harmonized white spirituals.

Answer 37

Shape-note singing

Question 38

While distinct paths may be traced for racially separated trends, the truth is that "folk music is ________."

Answer 38

alive and grasping

Question 39

List 3 shared qualities of black and white spirituals

Answer 39

"everyday" vocal tone, repetitive structure, pitch bending

Question 40

What year did the Civil War start?

Answer 40

1861

Question 41

At the outbreak of the Civil War, what percentage of Southerners were slaveholders?

Answer 41

25%

Question 42

"The spiritual song tradition is neither white nor black, neither northern or southern, but ________."

Answer 42

American

Question 43

________ is one of the best known spirituals and extended from S. Carolina to Florida.

Answer 43

Roll Jordan Roll

Question 44

The "________" songs always began with the traditional "________" and went on to explain how the subject of the religious ballad, born in sin, experienced religion, was saved, and became a child of God.

Answer 44

experience come all yee

Question 45

What does William Francis Allen write about the slaves’ ability to make the words fit the tunes?

Answer 45

“The ease with which they adapt words to music is sometimes surprising; the same tune being not unfrequently sung to half a dozen different sets of words.”

Question 46

How loudly did the laborers sing work songs?

Answer 46

with a volume of voice that reached a square or two away

Question 47

When do 'shouts' take place?

Answer 47

Sundays / praise nights

Question 48

According to Prince Rivers, how is a new “sing” created?

Answer 48

his friends saw him get his ass beat, then they "worked it in" at praise night

Question 49

Jackson uses ________ for the titles fo published tunebooks.

Answer 49

capitalized abbreviations

Question 50

What were Miss Hataway and the Romish Lady (a Catholic girl) willing to give up for their religion?

Answer 50

Miss Hataway gave up her inheritance The Romish Lady gave up her life