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10 Cards in this Set
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Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair by Stephen Foster
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Stephen Foster: first important american composer; combined many different musical styles (minstrelsy, irish popular music); wrote "oh susanna"
sentimental song, irish popular song roots late 1800's |
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Castle House Rag by James Reese Europe
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composed for famous dancers: the castles; provided music and musicians for their dancing events, which were help at their home (castle HOUSE)
syncopated rhythms that were variation on typical ragtime/vaudeville europe's society orchestra was first black group to sign a contract with record company |
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Tiger Rag by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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jazz developed oin new orleans, but first recording was from original dixieland jazz band in NYC. they were a white group...weird since it is a black genre.
tiger rag was composed by larocca group started jazz craze in America syncopation everywhere! |
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St. Louis Blues by Bessie Smith
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Bessie Smith: famous classic bluyes singer
genre from Mississippi delta but went to city and got recorded based on W.C. Handy song (he is father of the blues) |
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That Black Snake Moan by Blind Lemon Jefferson
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BLJ was first real country blues star
genre from Mississippi delta but BLT from texas very rugged, just him and guitar |
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Gospel Ship by the Carter Family
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family country band led by father
covered songs but copyrighted as own thought of as straightforward, conservative, upright sacred music |
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Blue Yodel No. 2 by Jimmie Rodgers
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country artist; wanderer
huge recording star 1929 african american influence but "white blues" cross-over artist 12 bar blues |
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My Girl by the Temptations
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out of motown tradition
smokey robinson is composer good production values simple love ballad; verse-chorus "teenage symphony" group vocals 1960's |
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Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys
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from California
1960's most celebrated American rock group ever and longest history of chart success branched out from just rock and roll- this song is form first CONCEPT ALBUM (pet sounds) weird song vocally and instrumentally |
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The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
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first that wasn't party music; was SOCIAL REALISM
grim portrait of south Bronx |
