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Five “Themes”

1. Listening Critically (terminology)

2. Music and Identity

3. Music and Technology

4. Music is a Business

5. Music has “Centers” and “Peripheries” (places)

Streams of Traditions• Three main sources of American Pop Music• European

- chiefly white (Anglo) Northern Europe- British Isles (Scotch, Welsh, Irish, etc.)

• African- chiefly from West Central Africa- imported slaves (mostly) to Southern regions

• Latin America- Caribbean, Mexican, Brazil, etc.- often mixes African w/ indigenous elements

“Barbary Allen”• Folk Music• Appalachian region

(from Anglo-Irish) • “Ballad” tradition

(tells a story)• Child Ballad # 84• Strophic form• “a cappella”

performance• Jean Ritchie--Barbry All

en – YouTube

[Textbook, p. 21-3]

Jean Ritchie (b. 1922, KY)

“Soldier’s Joy”• “Old Time Music”• String-band tradition• Used for dancing• 1st “Hillbilly” recordings• Ex.

Gid Tanner And His Skillet Lickers-Soldier's Joy

[Textbook, p. 23-5]• Revived as “folk music”• Tommy Jarrell - Soldiers Joy

– YouTube [Textbook, p. 25]

“Gid” Tanner and Skillet Lickers

Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985)

African Musical Traits

• Gahu Ghanaian/Ewe dance/drum – YouTube

• African Ghana Drum Music – YouTube

• African Drumming - dancedrummer.com - African Music

• Emphasis on Rhythm

• Use of Percussion• Interlocking Parts

(Dense texture)• Ostinato• Improvisation• Call & Response

“Coo Coo”• African-American• Influence of African

polyrhythms• Banjo (from Akonting”)• Improvisation• Dink Roberts: Fox Chas

e / Old Rattler (1983) – YouTube

• John Snipes - "The Coo Coo (Coo Coo Bird)" - YouTube

“Dink” Roberts (1894-1984)

Textbook (p. 30-1) – “Coo Coo” (on your own)

“Long John”• “Work Song”

- pass the time- coordinate action

• Southern Plantations• “Chain Gangs”• “Call and Response”• "Lightnin" Washington-

Long John – YouTube

[Textbook, p. 32]• WORK SONG / LIGHT

NING - LONG JOHN - YouTube

“Stagolee”

• Af-Am Ballad tradition• Reconstruction era

- Sharecropping- “Jim Crow” laws

• Mythic character (“Stagolee,” etc.)

• Polyrhythmic guitar• Stackolee Mississippi Jo

hn Hurt – YouTube

[Textbook, p. 33-4]

“Mississippi” John Hurt (1892-1966)

“Latin America”

• South of United States• Colonized by Europe

- Spain- France- Portugal

• Mixtures of - Indigenous- European- African (sometimes)

“La Cumparista”• Tango (dance from slums)

• Argentina (chiefly, but also….)

• “Habanera” rhythms

• Arrastre (“drag”)• Examples [textbook, p. 37-8]

- Carlos Gardel - La Cumparsita - Tango – YouTube (1928 rec.)- La Cumparsita - Francisco Canaro y su orquesta ( G. Matos Rodriguez ) – YouTube (instrumental version)

• Dance Examples- Basic Tango Demo (Music) by Mirko & Alessia – YouTube- Roberto and Jacklyn's Sexy Tango - YouTube

Carlos Gardel (1890-1935)

NB. The following two slides of this set have not yet been covered in class. They will be discussed

on Tuesday, 3 Feb 15.

“Enigue Nigue”• Afro-Cuban

- based in drum ensembles- docks of Matanzas (Cuba)

• Rumba (competitive dance)

• Guaguanco- “Rooster and Hen” - “vacunao”

• Examples - Rumba Street Party 2 with Clave y Guaguanco by AfroRomanzo – YouTube- Rumba Guaguancó - "El Solar de los 6" - Cultura de Cuba - viaDanza Tanzreisen – YouTube

• Textbook ex., p. 39-41(on your own)

“La Negra”• Mariachi

- entertainment- marriage, social events

• Guadalajara, Jalisco(western) Mexico

• Small string bands• Professionalization (1930s)

- move to urban centers- add trumpets, others

• ExampleMariachi Vargas deTecalitlan Son de La Negra[Textbook, p. 42-3]

TEST # 1 Materials END Here

Anything on following slides belongs to Test # 2 or later.

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