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41 Cards in this Set
- Front
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‘tit fer
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triangle
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Acadia
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a division of new france
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Amédé Ardoin
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was a Louisiana Creole musician, known for his high singing voice and virtuosity on the ten-button (diatonic or "Cajun") accordion. He is credited by Louisiana music scholars with laying the groundwork for Cajun music in the early 20th century
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Back beat
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is a term applied both to a specific style of rhythmic accentuation with accent on even beats and those even beats.
In a simple 4/4 rhythm, counted aloud as "1 2 3 4", this applies to the beats 2 and 4[1], as opposed to the odd downbeat, beat one,[1] and beat 3, also odd. As beat four immediately precedes a new bar in 4/4 rhythm, it is also termed upbeat |
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Cajun
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(IPA: /'keʒən/; French: les Cadiens) are an ethnic group mainly living in Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles and peoples of other ethnicities with whom the Acadians eventually intermarried on the semitropical frontier. Today, the Cajuns make up a significant portion of south Louisiana's population, and have exerted an enormous impact on the state's culture.[1]
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Clifton Chenier
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the kind of Zydeco, he played the accordion and was a vocalist, he also player R and B, Cajun, jazz, blues and many other genres.
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Creole
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Louisiana Creole refers to Americans of various racial descent who are descended from the Colonial French settlers of Louisiana known as French Creole, in addition to African Americans, and Native Americans [2] before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase with claim to the Creole culture and Creole cuisine. Unlike many other ethnic groups in the United States, Creoles did not migrate from a native country.[3] The commonly accepted definition today is for the community whose members are a mixture of mainly French, [[African, and Native-American heritage. There is general agreement that the term "Creole" derives from the Portuguese word crioulo,[4] which means a slave born in the master's household. [5] This means creoles are generally decendents of slaves. Some may not have each ethnic heritage, and some may have additional ancestries.
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Evangeline
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- Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a poem published in 1847 by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Great Upheaval. The work was written in dactylic hexameter reminiscent of Greek and Latin classics, though Longfellow was criticized for the meter. Longfellow got the idea for the poem from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne and published Evangeline in 1847. It has remained one of his most enduring works. Means good news or bearer of good news.
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Chanky-chank
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is a steady sixteenth note rhythm on the accordion, it later became a derogatory term for accordion music.
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Complainte
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- literally means "complaint" its a song about love lost, life gone bad, sad but beautiful songs
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One-row
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refers to the single row button accordion
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One-row
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refers to the single row button accordion
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Texas style
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Cajun music minus the accordion in favor of strings, much smoother than Cajun music
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Jole Blond
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- literally means "pretty girl" hit song by the Hackberry Ramblers
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Bela Fleck
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- American bango player, drawn to the bango when he heard Earl Shruggs on Berverly Hillbillies ( he played the theme song) Bela got his first bango when he was fifteen. He went to New York City’s high school of music and art where he studied the French horn and studied bango on the side. Most known for the group Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones. He has taken many grammys.
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Bill Monroe
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- had a band that toured the country by bus. They doubled as a baseball team. They usually played a baseball game during the day then a convert at night, brought the community together. Their main venu was playing at the radio station with one microphone. His band “ the bluegrass boys” were one of the first to come up with the bluegrass genre.
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Bluegrass
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- Orginated in America as a subgenre of country music. Traditional bluegrass is typically based around acoustic stringed instruments, such as mandolin, acoustic guitar, banjo, fiddle, and upright bass, with or without vocals. Bluegrass was generally used for dancing in the rural areas, a dancing style known as buckdancing, flat-footing, or clogging, but eventually spread to more urban areas and became more popular. Founding father= Bill Monroe
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Clawhammer-
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a downward fingerpicking style, The hand assumes a claw-like shape and the strumming finger is kept fairly stiff, striking the strings by the motion of the hand at the wrist and/or elbow, rather than a flicking motion by the finger
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Dan Emmett
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American songwriter and entertainer, founder of minstrel tradition. First person to “ blackface” his entire band rather than just one or two performers as Rice did.
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Dr. John Brinkley-
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known for bizarre medical practices, Minnesota guy had surgery because he couldn’t have kids. Went back and had a son, Billy, nine months later, not many other successes
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Earl Scruggs
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bango player, most famous soloist. Started 3 finger “scrugg style”, very serious- nevery funny or comical. Dressed in a three piece suit, this changed the atmosphere of the bango, his bango had a big resonator on the back and made it sound brighter and more metallic
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Grand Ol’ Opry-
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- biggest radio program centered in Nashville TN, biggest stars performed on these shows
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Hank Williams
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Born in southern Alabama in 1922. He had a fractured childhood- stayed with mom sometimes, stayed with dad sometimes, slept in cars and boxcars. One constant= sang in church choir. Teenager during the depression- played in streets of Montgomery, Alabama. Busking= street performing, played guitar, fiddle, song. Started playing in honkey tonks( small southern bars) where he became professional. Liked the image of a cowboy ( hat boots) for country music. Composed easy songs- songs about love loss and good times. Early on he had back problems- became an alcoholic and addicted to pain medication for his back. His hit songs were Jambalaya and hey Good lookin’. He became wealthy and a star even though his personal life was still a wreck. Died at age 30. Life fell apart, had a difficult time getting a gig. Finally got a gig in Iowa, paid a kid to drive him to his gig in his cadilliac. When they got there he was dead in the back seat.
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Hillbilly
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- another name that record companies made up for country music. Now it can be referring to old time music or music listened to by people in rural areas.
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Woboka
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had a follow up vision to Paiute prophets vision. There was more detail, the idea was very charismatic- wave into a powerful message, he believed that a circular dance + a virtous life=old way of life and all ancestors would come back. This message spread quickly with help of a telegraph
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Vocable
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- In speech, a vocable is an utterance, term, or word that is capable of being spoken and recognized. A non-lexical vocable is used without semantic role or meaning, while structure of vocables is often considered apart from any meaning. A vocable consists of one or a sequence of phonemes and may be represented by a string of letters or other symbols.
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Tom Bee-
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Lakota Indian that was adopted by a white family, became involved in the Red power movement.
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Powwow
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intertribal festival/ ceremony/social event
More than one tribe, main purpose= to expand social relations- social networking and communal daycare, weekend long events (Friday night- Sunday). Types- competitive- centers around dancing and drumming, money involved, profession powwow dance, substantial prizes. Traditional- no competition and money, arbor= central dance area, dancing starts at 7pm Friday,saturday people socialize dancing starts again at 1pm Saturday, large dinner break, start again 7pm until late,Sunday= same thing as Saturday only people pack up and leave after dinner. |
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Pine Ridge-
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The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Oglala Oyanke in Lakota, also called Pine Ridge Agency) is an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Pine Ridge was established in the southwest corner of South Dakota on the Nebraska border and consists of 8,984.306 km² (3,468.86 sq mi) of land area, the eighth-largest reservation in the United States, larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
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Pan-Indian
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- considered to be an Indian traits but not linked to a certain group. Some pan Indian organizations include Indian centers, social clubs, altheltic clubs and teams, pow wow and dance groups, newsletters and political organizations. Red power movement-> natives actively get involved in protest.
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Metis-
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French term meaning mixed, metis is a very specific group of people, strong sense of combining of history and style, not scholarly or academic, very strong and bound together tightly, metis trace lineage to Plains Indians and French Candians, they are a fairly recent population (no artifacts), they act as mediators between the two populations, live in rural communities in large plain provinces, claim descent from French Canadian voyagers such as trappers and traders, French Canadian men married native women, Michif=language, combines French and cree. Music= fiddling and plains music combo, either fiddle and percussion or fiddler and guitar. Fiddle= instrument of communication and friendship, play reels= French Canadian dance music ( music from Ireland and Scottland) fiddles are played in pairs 1.drumbeat 2. melody cascading melody, cascading melody
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Intertribal
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- did not think of themselves as tribes originally. All “tribes” banned together as a form of defense.
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Ghost dance(history)
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- emerged in the 19th century, a spiritual movement among Paiute in Great basic.After westward expansion was complete native American culture was doomed, Paiute prophet had a vision that with correct practice pre-colonial life would come back,he taught the idea in his own area and it spread like a wildfire. Woboka- had a follow up vision to Paiute prophets vision. There was more detail, the idea was very charismatic- wave into a powerful message, he believed that a circular dance + a virtous life=old way of life and all ancestors would come back. This message spread quickly with help of a telegraph. The ghost dance empower people (spiritually refreshed them), US military saw this as a threat so they moved to suppress it.
Ghost dance(music and dance)- circle dance, dancers lead my lead singer, danced into a collective trance, acapella, limited range, very simple language phrases in pairs, AA BB CC, triple meter feel. Played across west in Piaute style- most powerfully practice in Northern plains. |
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Enemyway
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- last three days, someone has gotton sick by coming into contact with a dead enemy (often for soldiers), someone who feels nauseous during this probably has been affected too, courtship happens there, women supply food and clothing and advertise elibility for marriage, public and private aspects, Song in private aspects are ver traditional, songs in public are more contemporary, when someone feels affected two camps are set up: the home camp (support), and the stick receiver camp (specialist). The first night takes place at the stick receiver camp where they play songs all night and the women ask the man to dance. The second day is at the stick receiver camp. The gift songs are sung,home camp brings the sacred stick, big ceremonial breakfast, ritualized battle between the two camps (reinact the event where the enemy was slain)On the third day, Home camp brings breakfast to stick receiver camp, sing songs over the one sung over->ailing person. Ailing person shoots the ritual arrow symbolically shooting the e
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Drum group
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-5- 15 singers cicling around a large drum with one stick, typically male
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Diné
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- The Navajo or Diné of the Southwestern United States are the largest Native American tribe of North America. In the 2000 U.S. census, 298,197 people claimed to be fully or partly of Navajo ancestry.[1] The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the Four Corners area of the United States. The traditional Navajo language is still largely spoken throughout the region, although most Navajo also speak English fluently as well. The Navajo people call themselves Diné, which means "the People" in Navajo.
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AIM
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- thousands of members, in 1969 young aim members took over Alcatraz federal prision, hung huge banners celebrating aim, put them on the national map.
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Terrist melodic contour
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plains indians- different levels starts high in pitch and decends then starts high againand decends further (cascading)
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fais do do
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house party rocking the baby (family oriented party)
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red road
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native american belief of being on the right track usually spiritually with community and earth
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Les zydeco no pas sale
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the beans have no salt by clifton chiener plays piano and accordian instead of electric gutiar that led into Zydeco genre.
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