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25 Cards in this Set
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The part of Africa we are focusing on
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Central/West Africa
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African culture had them ____ to European culture
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Adapt/Assimilate
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Main instrument
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Drums
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Polyrhythm
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2 or more rhthyms at a time. Not found in European music
2 against 3 (swing like) 3 against 4 (cuban feel) |
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Metronomic pulse
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unlike european
steady beat that everyone just works off of |
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Difference between African and European
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polyrhythm, metronomic pulse, no bar lines or music, oral tradition, played by year, created blues scale
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blues scale
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minor 3rd on a major chord, creates dissonance, common in gospel,
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Type of scale used in African music (common in jazz)
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Pentagonic, not diatonic. a 5 note scale versus a 7 note scale
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African musical concepts heard in music
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blues scale
polyrhythm fallsetto break or tumbling strain |
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Double ententra lyrics
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songs that express frustration, Africans used to talk of escape and frustration through the songs to cover it up. Example: you aint nothin but a hound dog
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Ring shout, circle dance
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has blues, polyrhythm, groes to a point of frenzy and then breaks
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Reasons European and African music blend together so well
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functional harmony, rhythm propelling harmony, diatonic scales that aren't in other music, folk music and African tribal music, European has a more complicated harmony and African has more complicated rhythm
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Harold Courandler
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went to the deep south and recorded gosspil churches and penitentaries, and gangs singing
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Africans were sold into slavery by
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other Africans who had conqured their tribe. Often those sold were priests and kings and others who were strong so the tradition brought to the US was very pure
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End of the slave trade
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1808 but continued illegally until the Civil War
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Tribe names for English and French slaves
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English -> Ashanti
French -> Dahomey |
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Dahomey tribe practiced
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Voden which mixed with Catholicism and became Vodo
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New Orleans
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Became US in 1883
Main port African culture was mainly Dahomeyian Becuase main port culture spread around the world |
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British Protestant Colony
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drown out churches, no rhythmic life in church, slaves heard music without dance, march is only thing appealing because of the chance for polyrhythms, British owned fewer slaves so they know them better, tried to convert them to Christianity, treated slaves better, prohibited idols and dancing so the culture went underground
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Latin Catholic
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music has much more rhythm and life, church festivals provided for slaves to hear music and dancing, didn't care what slaves did in spare time, ban drums and some rituals when slaves caused trouble, catholic saints were life idols so the Africans could relate better and assimilate more easily
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Dutch
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Slaves escaped inland and preserved their culture in a very pure form
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Haiti
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Mostly Dahomey, Kept drums and art of drum making, Voden and Catholicism merged, dances still exist
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Cubans
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-combine African music and Cuban
-outward rhythmic becuase Africans kept their drums |
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Spanish dances in origin
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Habanera, Guajara, Punto, Guaracha
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African dances in origin
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Rhumba, Conga, Son-Afro-Cubano, Mombo, Chacha
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