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15 Cards in this Set
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3 things that define 'Americana'
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(1) european roots - imitation and assimilation
(2) americanization of the arts - exploring our national identity (3) Yankee genius - tough, inventive, yet romantic at heart |
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5 types of Americana music
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Early American hymns, african-american spirituals, folk music, cowboys and frontier music, patriotic music, jazz
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spirituals are the ancestors of
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the blues
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titles of african-american spirituals
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nobody knows the trouble i've seen
this little light of mine certainly, lord travelin' shoes |
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titles of folk music
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oh! susanna, cripple creek, i got me a cat
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Aaron Copland wrote the song
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"I got me a cat"
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first user of the printing press
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Benjamin Franklin
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Jazz
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birthplace: new orleans, late 1800s
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three influences of jazz
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band music, ragtime, the blues
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Queen of broadway
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Lillian Russell
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Father of the American musical
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George M. Cohan
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George M. Cohan
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Father of the American musical, the only man with a statue on Broadway, also known as "Mr. Broadway"
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Florenz Zeigfeld
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American showman extraordinaire, zeigfeld girls
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Fanny Brice
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Zeigfeld's biggest star
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year silent films began
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1903
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