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30 Cards in this Set
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W.C. Handy
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great early composer of the blues
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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father of gospel music and composer of "Precious Lord"
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Dockery Plantation
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10,000 acre plantation in northern Mississippi that was the center of the delta blues
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Son House
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Delta blues slide guitarist and singer
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Kirk Franklin
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contemporary gospel singer and composer
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Gullah Islander
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lived off the coast of Georgia, able to maintain African cultural roots
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mouth music
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singing that imitates instruments with the use of non-lexical syllables
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Aretha Franklin
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queen of traditional gospel music and one of the most important performers of rhythm and blues
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the Celts
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from northern Europe pushed back to British Isles
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the Fisk Jubilee Singers
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freed slaves who formed a choir to raise money for Fisk University
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sean nos singing
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traditional Gaelic singing
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antiphonal singing
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call and response
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Muddy Waters
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blues singer from the Dockery Plantation who sang "I Got My Mojo Working"
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Turkle Dove
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traditional song from the Gullah Islanders dating back to slave times sung at weddings
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Albert King
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the guitarist whose style was stolen by Eric Clapton
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12 bar blues
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most common blues form
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barrelhouse
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piano style named after a primitive alcohol distribution system
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Mahalia Jackson
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female gospel singer from New Orleans
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uillean pipes
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bagpipes from Ireland played with a bellows
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Howlin Wolf
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famous blues singer from Chicago
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Mamie Smith
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recorded "Crazy Blues" in 1920 and sold 75,000`copies
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T-Bone Walker
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blues guitarist who wrote "Stormy Monday"
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hexachord
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6 note range in early solfege
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blues scale
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an inflected pentatonic scale with "blue notes" used in the blues
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jig
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Irish dance style in 6/8 time
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stride piano
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piano style in which the left hand alternates bass notes and chords
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Chess Records
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recorded some of the first Chicago blues
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Alan Lomax
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made field recordings of American musics
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bhodrain
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an Irish drum
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shape note singing
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early American music that used shapes to represent the notes
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