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43 Cards in this Set
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AMA (American Missionary Association)
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Set up school, and taught newly freed men how to write and read.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
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Group of African American singers who presented spirituals to the world after slavery.
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Call & Response
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Style of singing in which a melody sung by one singer is responded to or echoed by one or more singers.
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Buzz
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The Means of producing a sound on the trumpet and all brass instruments.
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Blues
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A style of music that evolved from southern African-American secular songs and is usually distinguished by a strong 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first. I IV V chord.
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Blue Notes
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Note sung or played at a lower pitch than those of the major scale. Done for effect
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Arpeggio
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The sounding of notes of a chord in rapid succession (ascending or descending)
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The Beat
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Synonymous with pulse
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Backbeat
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Emphasizing beats 2 and 4 in a four beat rhythm. 1-2-3-4
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Collective Improvisation
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New Orleans style where multiple artist are improvising. Many different melodies at the same time.
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Chattel
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Personal property. Moveable or immoveable
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2nd Line
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Bass, drums associated with the funeral procession.
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Harmony
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Different pitches and chords simultaneously
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I, IV, V
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Blues Chords
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregating blacks in the U.S.
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Lick or Riff
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Short melodic idea too short to be a melody. Used in improvisation. Associated with New Orleans music.
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Melisma
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Technique of changing the
note (pitch) of a single syllable of text while it is being sung |
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Meter
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Group of pulses
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Metrical Accent
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Emphasis on beat 1 of the downbeat
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Minstrelsy
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Popular form of entertainment in late 19th century where whites painted faces and made fun of blacks.
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NORK (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
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All white band, New Orleans style music, Influence on white musicians.
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Mute
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Device put into brass instruments to make it sounds like a voice.
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Street Cries of Charleston
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Male Street Vendor
Early 20th Century |
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And He Went a Little Further
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Reverend C.L. Franklin
1960's-70's |
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Louisiana/Field Song from Senegal
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Henry Ratcliffe/ Bakari-Badji
1960's in Mississippi/Rice Field in Senegal |
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Unloading Rails
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Henry Truvillion
1940's Texas |
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I'm Going Up North Satisfied
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Children of East York School
Mid Twentieth Century |
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Fisherman, Strawberry, Devil Crab
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Miles Davis
1958 |
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Jazzoetry
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The Last Poets
1960's |
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Po' Boy Blues
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John Dudley
1960s |
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Tamping Ties
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Henry Truvillion
Texas, 1940's |
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Black Woman
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Rich Amerson
South, date unknown |
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Hunter's Dance
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Malinke Male Vocalist
No Date |
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Blues in G
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Mance Lipscomb
1956 Newport Folk Festival |
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Talking 'Bout a Good Time
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Benjamin Bilgen
1960's Mississippi |
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Jim and John
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Ed and Lonnie Young
1959 |
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That's All Right
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Laura Rivers
South Carolina 1960's |
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Little Girls Sung Games
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7 Girls from Kanoukro Village
1965 |
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Hammer, Ring
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Jesse Bradley
1934 |
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Shoo Turkey
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Mrs. Janie Hunter and Children
South Carolina 1960's |
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Mr. Postman Die
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Mrs. Janie Hunter and Children
South Carolina 1960's |
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On the Subway
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The Last Poets
1960's |
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Sex Machine
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James Brown
1971 |