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27 Cards in this Set
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Genre |
Category of music |
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Lyrics |
Word songs |
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Solo |
With one singer |
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Groove |
Trance like rhythm |
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Robert Johnson |
Mississippi delta blues style guitar legend |
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Bessie Smith |
Most popular blues singer in 20s and 30s |
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W.C. Handy |
Credited with popularizing twelve bar blues |
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AAB pattern |
Early 20th century common in blues to structure tune in AAB pattern=1st line repeat it, response line. |
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St. Louis Bailey |
Example of 12 bar blues |
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12 bar blues |
Stanza had 3 lines and each line had 4 measures |
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Mississippi John Hurt |
Known for syncopated finger picking |
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Who was discovered late in life and taken to Washington DC where he was recorded in 1964 by the library of congress |
Mississippi john hurt |
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Mississippi sheiks |
Played blues in the 1930s in the Mississippi delta |
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Example of Mississippi sheiks |
Sitting on top of the world |
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Jimmie Rodger |
Blue yodeler |
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Oral traditikn |
Passed on from one person to another by memory rather than written notation |
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Lined ouf |
Old regular baptist church recognized for lined out, non instrumental, congregational call and response style singing |
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Shape note sunging |
Uses a music notation designed to help community singing without needing key signatures |
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Thomas A dorsey |
Father of black gospel |
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Aretha Franklin |
Queen of Soul |
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James Cleveland |
King of gospel |
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Acapella |
Singing without instruments |
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Gospel quartets |
Sing in 4 part harmony |
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Mississippi john hurt |
Early influential blues man |
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W.C. Handh |
Father of blues |
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Bessie Smith |
Empress of the blues |
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Robert johnson |
Mississippi delta blues style guitarist |
