Ballads and Folk Music

Question 1

Ballads

Answer 1

narrative songs from eu that tell a story; first pop songs

Question 2

ballad form; stanza, strophic text, emotional core

Answer 2

4 or 5 lines, text changed, music din’t, emotional core nevr changed

Question 3

oral tradition

Answer 3

balladsh have many variations

Question 4

ballad types; imported, naturalized, native,

Answer 4

imported from eu, naturalized, from eu, became usa, native from usa

Question 5

broadside ballads

Answer 5

written quickly used as propoganda

Question 6

murder ballads

Answer 6

discuss death or murder

Question 7

colonial dance music

Answer 7

country or ballroom dancing, controversial (sexual)

Question 8

folk research; james francis child

Answer 8

james francis child collected folk ballads through text (no music); thought they revealed culture

Question 9

influence of eu ballads in na

Answer 9

cecil sharp and olive campbell collected ballads and published them (folk songs of the southern Appalachians)

Question 10

Archive of USa Folk Songs

Answer 10

allan and john lomax first directors; prison songs, cowboy songs, latin amreican songs, etc.

Question 11

urban folk;

Answer 11

1930s; centered around coal minersl woody Guthrie (dust bowl ballads) and pete seeger (vietnam war) huge

Question 12

60s folk revival

Answer 12

social cause, Vietnam, civil rights, meaning

Question 13

bob dylan

Answer 13

urban fok star, wetn electric at Newport folk festival