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