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73 Cards in this Set
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Chiquinha Gonzaga
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"first lady of choro"
composed first official carnival song |
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Tropicalia
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included electric rock sound
criticized Brizilian establishment |
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Bossa Nova
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young university students love American jazz and mix with samba rhythms (slow down)
emphasize pleasure, love, the good life Brazil |
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Pixinguinha
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introduced choro performer
introduced choro, samba and maxixe to Europe |
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Flor Amorosa
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first choro
Joaquim Antonio da Silva Calado |
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choro
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instrumental band style
compared to early jazz bands Brazil |
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Maxixe
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dance combined lundu with European polka and Cuban habanera
Brazil |
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Lundu
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Afro-Brazilian courtship dance
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Modinha
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Aria-like art music popular with white elite
sentimental, romantic songs Brazil |
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forro
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dance country music style
sensual happy, lively dance Brazil |
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berimbau
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bow-like with a gord on the end
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capoeira
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dance & martial art
used dance to hide intentions from slave owners berimbau Brazil |
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Luiz Gonzaga
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accordianist
"father of forro and baiao" |
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Baiao
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based on Euro ballroom dances
small ensembles bambo flutes (pifanos), accordion, zabumba, triangle state of Pemambuco (Brazil) |
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fossa
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singer & guitar
added orchestra melancholy, longing, disillusion Brazil |
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puxador
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principal singer
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batucada
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samba style the bateria plays
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bateria
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percussion ensemble
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destaques
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costumed men and women of high rank in the escola who stand on carros
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carros alegoricos
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the floats
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enredo
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theme for parade
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types of samba
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pagode: competitive improvised singing
breque: reggae influenced cancao: sung with poetic lyrics enredo: performed by escola de samba |
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samba
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heavily syncopated fast tempos
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kilombos
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native villages w/ escaped slaves and natives
Brazil |
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Irmandades
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brotherhoods
Catholic in nature but preserved African heritage |
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Champeta
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heavily influenced by African pop music styles
urban pop style Colombia |
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currulao
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African courtship dance similar to bambuco
1960s electric instruments to marimbas Colombia |
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Vallenato types
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puya: fast & virtuosic
merengue: triple meter paseo: duple meter (many tempos offshoot of son) son: stately and melancholy |
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vallenato
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accordion, caja (single headed drum), guacharaca (native scraping instruments)
Colombia Vallendupar (drug region) derogatory term |
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Traditional Vallenato pop
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accordion, guacharaca, caja
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porro
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a sub-genre of Cumbia
improvisation native gaitas, Af percussion, Euro military brass, and woodwind ensembles Colombia |
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musica tropical
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Cuban music, merengue, cumbia
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La Sonora Dinamita
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lots of international hits
popularized cumbia in Mexico |
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Cumbia Cienaguera
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so popular that its considered an unofficial national anthem
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Discos Fuentes
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Colombian label
helped establish Cumbia |
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modern Cumbia
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bass pattern important rhythmic element
Cuban drums colombia |
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Cumbia de Gaita
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used indigenous flutes (gaita)
Mahco-male lead hembra-female follower Feast of San Martin Colombia |
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Carrascas
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drums used in bambuco
Colombia |
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Chirimias
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cane flutes used in bambuco
Colombia |
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bambuco
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national dance of Colombia
interior dance style |
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Carlos Gardel
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the creole songbird, the king of tango
famous actor heartfelt singer Argentina |
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Guardia Vieja
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toned down from sexual violence
middle-class theaters and cabarets highly prized by belle epoque (love exotic things) Argentina |
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Guarida Nueva
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nationalist movement brought forth interest in Argentine folklore and pride
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Milonga
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guacho style song and dance form
community gatherings and brothels emerged same time as payada (Argentina) |
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payada
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lyrics from an 1879 poem about a duel between two payadors
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payadores
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traveling musicians
Argentina |
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Gaucho
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simple ballad accompanied by guitar-like US cowboy songs
Argentine folk traditions |
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tango
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violent sexual energy lyrics
widely used to refer to Af celebrations guitar, flutes, violins, madoins, bandoneon added slow dramatic, duple meter, syncopated Argentina |
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bandoneon
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accordion like instrument
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la cumpartsita
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rhythm arrangement and instrumentation that would set off the new guard sound
Argentina |
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nuevo tango
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tangos for symphony orchestra
instrumental jazz like improvisations over classical sound Argentina |
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Bessie Smith
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Empress of blues
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rural blues TEXAS
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blind Lemon Jefferson
strong gospel influences emphasis on single string guitar US |
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Rural blues MISSISSIPPI "Delta" BLUES
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prominent rhythmic "groove"
a more primitive sound (irregular, asymmetrical structures) |
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Carter Family
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began recording in 1927 for Ralph Peer at the Bristol Sessions
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bluegrass
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mix of old time music & fiddle styles
strong triple vocal like church hymns |
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western swing
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dance style based country music with "swinging" beat
big bands electric guitar |
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Bob Wills & his TX Playboys
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piano, accordion, sax, horn, electric guitar, drums
first group to play drums at Grand Ole Opry |
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Hank Williams
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one of country music's most famous artists
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jump blues
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rhythm section, 1-2 saxes, trumpet
strongback shuffle or boogie bass |
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rocket 88
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Sam Phillips' Sun Studio
distorted guitar sound debated first rock song |
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First Rock Songs?
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Rocket 88
That's All Right Rock Around the Clock |
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country blues
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"rural"
man & his guitar |
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city blues
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woman singer with a jazz type band instrumentation
sax, organ, piano, trumpet |
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Tin Pan Alley
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term that refers to the music theater & publishing districts of NYC
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Boogie Woogie
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Carnegie Hall
Chicago strong piano rhythms & characteristic piano "bass" pattern |
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Louis Jordan
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King of Jump Blues
uptempo music, humor |
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sun Label
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memphis
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lewis |
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Chess label
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electric blues
Chicago |
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Jazz Combo
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combos prevailed compared to big bands due to economics
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Bebop
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jazz as art
just listening no dancing |
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Atlantic records
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one of the most successful and long-lived rhythm and blues labels
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Brian Epstein
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Beatles discovered by a record store owner
EMI/Parlophone |
