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16 Cards in this Set
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Things That Affect Popular Music
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-Politics: wars, laws, campaigns
-Economy: consumer trends > contribute to moods -Technology: change way of spread and consumed -Music Business: ONLY direct influence |
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Properties of Music
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-Pitch: Wave Vibrations; high or low
-Duration: Length -Intensity: Has to do with volume -Timbre: 'colour' or 'quality' |
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First popular music form in North America
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-Psalms and Hymns: settlements were religious, so their music was
-Henry Ainsworth's book of psalms |
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Type of music that eventually evolved after first type
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-Secular Music; underground thing
-^ was mix of things like British isles, dance music |
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Strophic Song Form
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-a song in which uses the same for each poetic unit in the song lyrics
-one that has inspired countless generations of musicians |
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Most notable entertainment form of the nineteenth century
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Blackface Minstrelsy: a show or revue in which white men performed ascaricatures of African-Americans
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Jim Crow
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-minstrelsy's best known character
-an uneducated country slave |
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Cakewalk
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Dance created by slaves in mockery of the European quadrille dance
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Minstrelsy
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-had very little in common with authentic African-American music
-format evolved constantly |
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Tin Pan Alley Music
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-distinguished by its verse-chorrus song format
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Song plugging/song pluggers
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-Spent entire day singing one song in storesuntil people bought a copy of the sheet music
-Basically a way to commercialize songs and getpeople buying them |
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3 new technologies at the turn of the early 20th century
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-phonograph/graphaphone
-music on flat disks -first recordings/recorder |
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Syncopation
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-what ragtime was "ragging'
-^^a musician “shifts melodic accents on to theoffbeats |
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The blues
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-music of the oppressed black people
-likeness and dissimilarities w/ spirituals -singing about shitty stuff/personal expressions |
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Two main streams of blues
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Classic Blues: heard by mass audiences first, usually sung by middle class afro americans
Country Blues: tin pan alley composed, not as well acknowledged until long after classic blues was famous |
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3 struggles the music business had among powerful institutions (30s/40s/50s?)
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1. The fight for radio royalties by the AmericanSociety of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
2. The emergence of BMI in competition withASCAP 3. The recording ban in place from August 1942until 1944 |
