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Africa musical traditions 55 countries |
*Call and response *group activity *repetition with variation *consider central in every part of life. |
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Early 19th century black music They contributed to jazz |
*Spirituals *Blues *Ragtime |
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Spirituals |
*Religious folk songs of black Americans. *More positive than blues. |
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Blues |
*The first blues composition was Memphis blues by WC Handy and he popularized it around the country. *Secular songs describing hard times or a sad event. |
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Ragtime |
*First associated with piano *The left hand imitated the stomping and clapping. *Right hand played syncopated melody. |
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syncopation |
*Rhythm in between the beats. |
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shout |
*A n event that incorporates spirituals. |
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Buddy Bolden What did he do? |
*Considered by many to be the first jazz artist *Combined elements of ragtime, blues, and spirituals *one of the first to use brass to play blues songs. |
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Louis Armstrong *3 Main contributions *Why is he called "father of jazz" |
*First to make a solo improvisation, the dominant feature of jazz. *Popularized scat singing, a wordless vocal improvisation using syllables. |
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Big band vs. combo jazz |
*Big bands usually had 4-5 saxes,trumpets and trombones, well as guitar, bass, drums, and piano(or rhythm section). *combos had 3-6 people (2 or 3 horns and rhythm section. *Combos were more free to improvise (less written material, and big bands used more arranged material with individual improvisation. |
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Duke Ellington |
*Wrote over 3000 *Foremost big band leader of jazz *He and Armstrong raised jazz to the level of a fine art |
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Be bop and pioneers |
*Higher, faster,and more complex, not a dance music anymore. *Pioneers: Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie |
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T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters |
*T-Bone first to record electric guitar. *Muddy added a complete rhythm section to electric blues-King of the Chicago Blues. |
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Rockabilly |
*Early form of rock influenced by country music. *Appeared about the same time as rock and roll. *Country music pioneers: Jimmy Rodgers and Carter family |
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3 Rock Music pioneers of the 50's |
*Little Richard *Elvis Presley *Chuck Berry |
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Early hip-hop influences |
*Was influenced by salsa, disco, funk, Jamaican DJ's and block parties with emcees. *Grandmaster Flash and Sugerhill gang *Also Run D M C and Public enemy |
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Funk |
16th note syncopation |
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Michael influences in pop music |
*He took R and B and rock influences and revolucionized pop music *Influenced boy bands of the 90's |
