What kind of music is jazz?
jazz is an art form, popular music, and folk music
roots of jazz?
Africa, African-American tradition
(folk traditions) -ballads, field holler, spiritual
narrarating local history through lengthy songs; unaccompanied rhythmically loose vocal line express solitude; call and response songs become religious poetry
When did BLUES arrive on the scene?
dawn of 20th century; earliest blues = COUNTRY BLUES
What is VAUDEVILLE?
classic blues, theatrical form featuring female singers accompanied by small band
What is VAUDEVILLE?
classic blues, theatrical form featuring female singers accompanied by small band
What is VAUDEVILLE?
classic blues, theatrical form featuring female singers accompanied by small band
minstrelsy
stereotype for blacks as all ‘plantation blacks’ through extensive costumes and makeup during performances
dance craze p67
brass bands
march
16-bar section called a STRAIN b/c of its dominant melody; third strain C trio
ragtime
left hand keeps beat, right hand improvises
cakewalk
comic dance of ragtime, supposedly dating from slavery, imitating formal dance by “strutting”
march/ragtime form
fits rhythmic contrast into sucession of seperate strains