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31 Cards in this Set
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Grace Bumbry
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Bayreuth - First Af. American singer to sing at Bayreuth Festival (started by Wagner).
"Black Venus" A leading mezzo-soprano of her generation Won a local radio competition at age 17 - scholarship to local music conservatory, but they didn't take blacks. Contest organizers arranged for Boston University. (Transferred to Northwestern.) |
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George Walker
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Classical "Lyric for Strings"
Former professor composed sonatas for piano, a mass, cantata, songs, choral works, organ pieces, sonatas for cello and piano, violin and piano and viola and piano, a brass quintet and a woodwind quintet First African American composer to win Pulitzer Prize for Music ("Lilacs", 1996) |
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Marian Anderson
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1st at Met, Contralto
One of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century First Af. Am singer at the Metropolitan Opera became figure of struggle against racism - 1939, Daughters of the American Revolution refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall, so she sang to vastly huger integrated audience from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee "Goodwill Ambassadress" for the US Dept of State, giving concerts all over the world Participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 Kennedy Center Honors in 1978 National Medal of Arts in 1986 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991 |
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Afrika Bambaataa
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DJ from the South Bronx
"Amen Ra of Hip Hop Kulture", Father of electro funk Electronica “Planet Rock" Teen gang member, won trip to Africa in essay contest. Worldview shift inspired by African community, wanted to stop violence & create community in hood. Named himself after Zulu chief Bhambatha, who led an armed rebellion against unfair economic practices in early 20th century South Africa that can be seen as a precurser to the anti-apartheid movement. Formed The "Bronx River Organization" as an alternative to the Black Spades. Formed the Universal Zulu Nation in 1970s - ex-gang members organizing cultural events for youths, combining local dance and music movements into what would become the various elements of hip hop culture. |
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Anthony Davis
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Operas -- X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, Amistad
jazz pianist, composer, professor, and student of gamelan music jazz, rhythm 'n' blues, gospel, non-Western, African, European classical, Indonesian, and experimental music |
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T.J. Anderson
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mentor (DJ Spooky), Treemonisha orchestrator, composer, conductor, educator
well known for his orchestration of the Scott Joplin opera, Treemonisha |
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Josephine Baker
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1st star, banana dance
First African American woman to star in a major motion picture or to become a world-famous entertainer Refused to perform for segregated audiences in US Made notable contributions to the Civil Rights Movement |
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George Clinton
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Funk innovator
Singer, songwriter, bandleader, and music producer Mastermind behind P-Funk, Parliament, Funkadelic |
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Scott Joplin
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Treemonisha - opera, "Maple Leaf Rag"
"The King of Ragtime" |
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Louis Jordan
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song "Deacon Jones", crossover success
One of the first AFAM artists to be popular with both black and white audiences (late 30s- early 50s) Musician, songwriter and bandleader Big band swing, jump blues Billboard #5-selling black recording artist of the century |
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"Deacon Jones"
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Louis Jordan
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"Shout"
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Isely Brothers
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"Rockit"
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Herbie Hancock
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"Planet Rock"
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Afrika Bambaataa
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"Pastime Paradise"
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Stevie Wonder
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"It's Like That"
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Run DMC
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"X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X"
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opera by Anthony Davis
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"Shaft"
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Isaac Hayes
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Musicology
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album by Prince
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Banana Skirt Dance
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Josephine Baker would perform in a skirt made of artificial bananas for a dance known as "Danse sauvage"
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Camp Robert Smalls, Camp Lawrence, Camp Moffett
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Navy bases in the US that African Americans were trained/stationed when military still segregated
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techno
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Melding of electronic w/ African American music styles, including funk, electro, Chicago house and electric jazz
Futuristic and fictional themes relevant to life in American late capitalist society This unique blend of influences aligns techno with the aesthetic referred to as afrofuturism. To producers such as Derrick May, the transference of spirit from the body to the machine is often a central preoccupation; essentially an expression of technological spirituality. In this manner techno defeats the alienating effect of mechanisation on the modern consciousness. Oftentimes produced for use in a continuous DJ set |
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Hottentot Venus
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The name given to Sarah Baartman, a South African woman sold into slavery during the early 19th century as a dancer in Great Britain
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Edwin Hawkins
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gospel musician, pianist, choir master, composer, and arranger
one of the originators of the urban contemporary gospel sound |
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Moral responsibilities of black artists
Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author and editor Du Bois insisted that artists recognize their moral responsibilities, writing that "a black artist is first of all a black artist." He was also concerned that black artists were not using their art to promote black causes, saying "I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda." helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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Run D.M.C.
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first BIG rap group
(1st to have records go gold, platinum, multiplatinum, to get Grammy nomination, to have videos on MTV, to be on cover of Rolling Stone, etc) first group to highlight the relationship between the MC and DJ one of the most influential acts in the history of hip hop culture |
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Jim Crow Laws
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"separate but equal" - racial segregation laws in the states of the former Confederacy
1876-1965 "separate but equal" public facilities for Blacks |
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Pentacostal churches
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African circle dances similar to passionate Pentecostal shouting, speaking in tongues
Rise of Pentecostal churches at the end of the 19th century - Pentacostals known for lively church Improvised recitative passages, melismatic singing (singing of more than one pitch per syllable), and an extraordinarily expressive delivery Choirs – often featured extremes of female vocal range in call-and-response counterpoint with the preacher's sermon. Recordings of Pentecostal preachers' sermons - immensely popular among black Americans in the 1920s, and recordings of them along with their choral and instrumental accompaniment and congregational participation persisted, so that ultimately black gospel reached the white audience as well. The voice of the black gospel preacher was affected by black secular performers and vice versa. Pentecostal churches welcomed tambourines, pianos, organs, banjos, guitars, other stringed instruments, and some brass into their services. |
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DJ Spooky
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"trip hop," "illbient" - electronic and experimental hip hop
turntablist, producer, magazine editor, philosopher, author, professor helped found Soundlab |
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Hall Johnson
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spiritual to an art
elevated the African-American spiritual to an art form, comparable in its musical sophistication to the compositions of European Classical composers |
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Olly Wilson
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prominent classical
composer of classical music, pianist, double bassist, and musicologist. one of the preeminent living composers of African American descent |
