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11 Cards in this Set
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Ballads |
-early topics of ballads were stories, often dancing songs -usually 16-32 bars long -AABA form |
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"Hillbilly" Music |
-Hillbilly String Band -Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers -Carter Family |
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Jimmie Rodgers |
Sometimes called the father of country music |
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Minstrel Shows |
example of white musicians appropriating/stealing black music styles and combining them with their own |
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Pop Music |
-Tin Pan Alley Pop Music -Borrowed rhythmic elements from plantations |
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Stephan Foster |
- Father of Popular music -First great composer of American music (minstrel & ballad writer) -Sheet music and Ethiopean music |
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Irving Berlin |
-Wrote God Bless America and others -One of the main Tin Pan Ally pop writers -Crooner |
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Bing Crosby |
-Sang best selling record of all time "White Christmas" -scored more #1 hits than any other 20th century performer -1st true crooner |
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Crooner |
a male singer who sings slow, romantic songs in a soft, smooth voice |
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Syncopation |
general term for "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm" |
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Blues notes and scales |
a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes |
