First Flashcards

1
Q

What is culture?

A

Group of values and traditions

EVERYTHING GOES INTO CULTURE

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2
Q

Ragtime

A

Mostly dance music played on piano.

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3
Q

Who invented phonogram?

A

Thomas Edison.

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4
Q

When was the piano created?

A

1700.

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5
Q

Eurocentrism.

A
Society still reflects. 
Whit upper class heterosexual male
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6
Q

What is popular culture?

A

Mass cultural forms of everyday life.

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7
Q

What is Saturday Night Fish Fry about?

A

Song about community

Arrested and raided because of color.

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8
Q

Ballad

A

Narrative song in strophic form

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9
Q

Strophic

A

Verses

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10
Q

Broadside ballad

A
New words 
Familiar tunes 
Still set in verses. 
Political
Battle
Legend
Hero
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11
Q

Where could you find broadside ballads?

A

Wrote in newspaper form

In market place.

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12
Q

Reverend cotton Mather

A

Sinners in the hand of an angry god.

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13
Q

Ballad of Mary Bateman

A
Leeds. Left because she has a past 
Original name was blithe. 
Married man, lied about dead father
Found couple, poisoned them. 
Lied about pregnancy was hung. 
Doesn't feel guilt for anything.
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14
Q

Pretty Polly

A

Willy gambled all of the time/ psychopath
Rode off with Willy and wanted to have adventures before marriage.
Stumbled upon a grave.
Be dug her a grave
Stabbed Polly and she feel into grace.
Debt for the devilish that has to be paid.

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15
Q

How does the military use music?

A

Propaganda
Marching
Morale
Pass time

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16
Q

The heart of oak

A

Winning of battle commemoration.

17
Q

John Dickinson

A

Wrote new rods for heart of oak but called i the liberty song.
God is on our side.

18
Q

Battle of Trenton

A

Christmas Eve

Washington crossed Delaware.

19
Q

Where are the four big ports

A

Charleston
Boston
New York
Philly

20
Q

What four cultural things came from England.

A

Theater
Opera
Music and instruments
Dancing.

21
Q

Increase Mather

A

Wrote a tract

22
Q

Tract

A

Short religious pamphlets

23
Q

Couples dancing.

A

More refined.

24
Q

Why did big towns do things differently? I

A

Because there was no official church.

25
Why is it only ok for them to learn dancing?
If they do it separately.
26
Anglican dancing
More liberal stronghold.
27
Where does music come from?
Anglo-Celtic Tradition.
28
William billings
Boston composer
29
Where was the first public concert place open to anybody.
Boston.
30
What are the three types of concerts?
Benefit Subscription Music society.
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Benefit concert
Raising money and or for awareness for a cause.
32
Subscription concert.
Pay five concerts get one free.
33
Music society concert
People who have same interests in music.
34
Which three people thought of dance as a sacred thing.
Native Americans Slaves Shakers.