Jazz chapter 1
what is "America's classical music."
Jazz
when was Jazz most popular
1940s
Ballads
slow and John Henry
Work Song
Music from hard labor
Field Holler
rhythmically loose vocal line that expressed individuality
Spirituals
religious music that eventual transformed into gospel
Firsk Jubilee Singers (1871)
preformed arrangements of slave songs such as "Swing low, Sweet Chariot"
Frisk University
African American university founded after the civil war
sea Islands of Georgia former slaves that lived there known as
Gullahs they where rice farmers
2 Gullahs songs
Buzzard lope( throw me Anywhere, lord)
and Eli, Eli ( Somebody Call Eli.
blues created
1900s
blues music traits
poetic genre 3 line stanza
destinctive cord progession
early Bleues 1 guy gitar rithmicly flexable
Famous early blues singers
Robert Johnson
Son House
Vaudeville is
(classic)blues female singers with small bands in black theater in the 1910s and 1920s
Ma Rainey
(1886-1939) known as the "Mother of the Blues"
W.C. Handy
(1873-1958) " Father of the Blues"