First Flashcards
What is culture?
Group of values and traditions
EVERYTHING GOES INTO CULTURE
Ragtime
Mostly dance music played on piano.
Who invented phonogram?
Thomas Edison.
When was the piano created?
1700.
Eurocentrism.
Society still reflects. Whit upper class heterosexual male
What is popular culture?
Mass cultural forms of everyday life.
What is Saturday Night Fish Fry about?
Song about community
Arrested and raided because of color.
Ballad
Narrative song in strophic form
Strophic
Verses
Broadside ballad
New words Familiar tunes Still set in verses. Political Battle Legend Hero
Where could you find broadside ballads?
Wrote in newspaper form
In market place.
Reverend cotton Mather
Sinners in the hand of an angry god.
Ballad of Mary Bateman
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.
Pretty Polly
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.
How does the military use music?
Propaganda
Marching
Morale
Pass time
The heart of oak
Winning of battle commemoration.
John Dickinson
Wrote new rods for heart of oak but called i the liberty song.
God is on our side.
Battle of Trenton
Christmas Eve
Washington crossed Delaware.
Where are the four big ports
Charleston
Boston
New York
Philly
What four cultural things came from England.
Theater
Opera
Music and instruments
Dancing.
Increase Mather
Wrote a tract
Tract
Short religious pamphlets
Couples dancing.
More refined.
Why did big towns do things differently? I
Because there was no official church.