Gospel Midterm

Question 1

Civil War

Answer 1

1861-1865

Question 2

Reconstruction

Answer 2

1867-1877

Question 3

Jim Crow Era

Answer 3

1876-1965

Question 4

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 4

1896

Question 5

Brown v Board

Answer 5

1954

Question 6

Slave Songs of the United States

Answer 6

1867

Question 7

A.A. History

Answer 7

1619

Question 8

1st Great Awakening

Answer 8

1750s

Question 9

2nd Great Awakening

Answer 9

~1790

Question 10

First A.A. Church

Answer 10

1794, “Bethel” PA

Question 11

Spirituals are born between

Answer 11

1767-1867

Question 12

Spirituals originate

Answer 12

SC or GA

Question 13

Blackface ministry

Answer 13

1810-1940s

Question 14

Another name for spirituals

Answer 14

Sorrow Songs

Question 15

People who preserved spirituals

Answer 15

Lucy McKin, Col. Higginson

Question 16

The _____ was a feature of the 2nd Great Awakening that allowed slaves to participate

Answer 16

Tent revivals

Question 17

For the African, there is no difference between the _____ and the _____

Answer 17

Sacred and secular

Question 18

Main Characteristic of Black Preaching

Answer 18

Rhythm

Question 19

First ordained African American minister in the United States

Answer 19

Richard Allen

Question 20

2 Styles of barbershop Quartets

Answer 20

Folk and Jubilee

Question 21

Black Exodus

Answer 21

1867-1914

Question 22

Pianist who created the early “boogie woogie” style

Answer 22

Blind Arizona Dranes

Question 23

Characteristic of Jack Leg Preachers

Answer 23

Not ordained

Question 24

Store Front Church

Answer 24

Church in a building that was formerly a store

Question 25

How did illiterate slaves learn the bible

Answer 25

Lining out

Question 26

3 Legs of the slave trade

Answer 26

1) W. Europeans trading goods for Africans
2) “Middle Passage” Africa to New World
3) Slave Goods to Europe

Question 27

Where do spirituals come from

Answer 27

African rhythm/field hollers/work songs

Question 28

Features of African Music

Answer 28

1) Rhythm
2) Improv
3) Call & Response
4) Alt. Verse & Chorus
5) Repetition
6) Short Phrases
7) Singing in Code

Question 29

Themes of the Blues

Answer 29

1) Relationships
2) Black Identity
3) Secular Dimension of Black Thought

Question 30

Mood of the Blues

Answer 30

“As Is”

Question 31

What Spirituals were Created for

Answer 31

1) Weddings
2) Funerals
3) Baptisms
4) Worship Services
5) Rare Moments of Rest

Question 32

Characteristic of African Music and spirituals

Answer 32

Functional

Question 33

Characteristics of a True Spiritual

Answer 33

1) Sense of Urgency
2) Unstructured
3) Shared Consciousness: ethnic identity, shared information, and ethos of a people
4) Deliverance of a chosen people
5) Unique imagery
6) Deep biblicism
7) Eternity of message

Question 34

Who started the Jubilee genre

Answer 34

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 35

Where did the Fisk Jubilee Singers come from

Answer 35

Fisk University 1866