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Mistralcy
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-First and most popular form of music
-Plantation songs -Reinforced ugly strereotypes, whites playing blacks, blacks dressed up like whites playing blacks -Racist -> sang slave songs -Daddy vice - first to play, named it 'Jim Crow' |
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Ragtime
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-Most popular form of music for a quarter of a century
-Use of rhythm, highly syncopated -Scott Joplin - major influence on jazz |
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Blues
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-Infinate number of variations -- need more than just technique, need real feeling
-Counterpart of the Black Baptist Church -Incorporated call and response, told stories |
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Marching Band
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-Played instruments trying to immitate sound of the human voices in blues
-Very popular |
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Field Cries
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-Gospal music
-(Hollars) |
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Who brought reading music to the black population and why?
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-The creols brought reading music to the black population when they were considered black
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Buddy Bolden
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-First one to play Jazz
-The Big Four - accent certain beat to create jazz -First great Jazz superstar -Heavy drinker - started to miss gigs and fight with his band -In 1906 he played the last he would ever play in public at a parade before going to the Louisiana state insane asylum -He made jazz sound like himself |
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Gellyrole Morton
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-Lied about his heratage - really had a creol background but claimed to be white
-Played in a whore house, told grandma he was a night watchman -Piano player - had a new mixed hybrid music -One of the firsts to be able to read music -First person to show that jazz could be written down - notation |
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Sydney Buche
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-First real proficient protegy - could play clarinet at the age of 10
-Added more soul and improv to jazz |
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Louis Armstrong
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-Played trumpet
-Called pops - "Father of Jazz" -Left New Orleans to go to Chicago and join King Oliver's Band -Abandon the rigidness and strictness or ragtime and gave jazz a more loose sound -Elements of story telling |
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African Elements
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-Syncopated rhythms - Notes fall on the off beat
-Improvasation -Story telling - community involvment -Percussion - drums -Rough vocal quality -Antiphany - responding - "Hello" "Hello" (Call and response) |
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European Elements
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-Harmony
-Instrumentation - drums, base, trumpet, even guitar - not banjo, came from west Africa -Music notation - writing music down, how we read music -Song forms - how songs are constructed |
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Early Genres
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-Work songs - coordinat swing of hammer with beat
-Field cries - also used during work, as individual -Spiritual - mix of both |
