| What kind of music is jazz? |
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| jazz is an art form, popular music, and folk music |
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| Africa, African-American tradition |
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| (folk traditions) -ballads, field holler, spiritual |
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| narrarating local history through lengthy songs; unaccompanied rhythmically loose vocal line express solitude; call and response songs become religious poetry |
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| When did BLUES arrive on the scene? |
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| dawn of 20th century; earliest blues = COUNTRY BLUES |
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| classic blues, theatrical form featuring female singers accompanied by small band |
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| classic blues, theatrical form featuring female singers accompanied by small band |
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| classic blues, theatrical form featuring female singers accompanied by small band |
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| stereotype for blacks as all ‘plantation blacks’ through extensive costumes and makeup during performances |
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| 16-bar section called a STRAIN b/c of its dominant melody; third strain C trio |
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| left hand keeps beat, right hand improvises |
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| comic dance of ragtime, supposedly dating from slavery, imitating formal dance by “strutting” |
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| fits rhythmic contrast into sucession of seperate strains |
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