Folk Traditions & Popular Music Flashcards
ritualized vocalizing of black american workers
work songs and field hollers
sang to pace manual labor, express loneliness
work songs and field hollers
unaccompanied, stomping, clapping
work songs and field hollers
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
Paul Robeson
gospel
solo singing, group singing, piano, organ, call and response, melisma
gospel
melisma
singing of a single syllable while moving between several pitches
gospel lyrics
often had double meaning
“gospel music” termed
1930s
Father of (modern) gospel music
Thomas A. Dorsey
Georgia Tom- as a blues pianist
Queen of gospel
Mahalia Jackson
“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”
Thomas A. Dorsey
(Mahalia Jackson also sang it at some point)
gospel
Gospel singer and guitarist, precursor of rock & roll, influenced Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
James Cleveland
gospel singer and pianist
Edwin Hawkings
gospel
“Up Above My Head”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
gospel
popular entertainment, combination of songs, dances, comic sketches
Minstrelsy
when did minstrelsy originate
~1830
first minstrelsy performer
George Washington Dixon
exaggeration of skin color, facial features, speech, gestures
minstrelsy
Jim Crow & Zip Coon
minstrelsy characters based on racial stereotyping
“De Boatmen’s Dance”
Dan Emmett
minstrelsy
unique instrument for minstrelsy
bones
TOBA
Theatre Owners and Booking Agency
Father of the minstrel show
Thomas “Daddy” Rice
