A Race Enslaved Flashcards
What most captivated European audiences around the 1900?
Cakewalk
The first person to perform in blackface was:
George Washington Dixon
True or False: Some slaves were great fiddlers and their masters encouraged them
True
What did the arranged spiritual remove from the original folk spirituals?
Handclapping, foot stomping, and individuality
Minstrel shows were important in American music because
They were the United States’ first unified national culture.
Many black musicians began their musical careers in minstrel shows
The “educated elite” blacks began to take issue with spiritual in the 19th century because:
Disturbed quiet and dignified worship
Work songs were intended to:
Lift sprits, ward off fatigue, and coordinate movements
According to Frederick Douglass, “slaves sing most when they are:”
Unhappy
Before sound recordings, African and African-American music was notated by scholars, but the scholars had to:
Omit or modify distinctive characteristics because they were unable to be expressed in the notational system.
What is the phrase that describes a performance practice in which one musical statement is answered by another?
Call
Ragtime was most popular when?
Late 1800s to early 1900s
The cakewalk was a dance that:
Blacks invented to make fun of whites’ bouncy, stiff dancing style
What does black religious music often feature that it white counterparts do not?
Dancing and Handclapping
Secular melodies
The definition of a spiritual is:
A religious folk song that flourished during slavery
What is the phrase that describes a type of spiritual that incorporates dancing in a circle?
Ring Shout
What instruments could be used by slaves as signaling devices?q
Drums
Jim Crow was a character invented by:
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
What phrase described what was “an extension of simple hand clapping, raising it to the level of a self-contained accompaniment to dancing?”
Patting juba
While children’s game songs featured many African elements, this activity sometimes found in game songs was completely foreign to African practice:
Pairing up
African Americans initially didn’t consider publishing their rages because:
It was difficult for them to receive payment and acknowledgement
In the north, slaves adopted “lining out,” which was a type of sacred music in which:
A preacher sings a line and the congregation repeats the words but draws out the notes.
African Americans were the originators of ragtime, but:
They didn’t reap the commensurate benefits from their accomplishments.
The founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Richard Allen, compiled his own hymnal because:
He wanted the songs to have greater appeal for his black congregation
Who was the first person to arrange the spiritual for a solo vocalist?
Harry T. Burleigh
“To rag” means:
To syncopate
Musical elements to the spiritual
Syncopation
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