Module 2 Flashcards
Henry Russell and Stephen Foster
Master composers on 19th century sentimental ballads.
Blackface Minstrelsy
A show in which white men performed as caricatures of African-Americans.
The accompanying music included crude interpretations of black singing and dancing.
Puritans
Group of hardcore Anglicans who fled to the United States who created the first form of pop music - sacred songs.
William Billings
Composer of Chester, the unofficial national hymn of the American revolution.
Henry Russell
Woodman, Spare that tree (Wrote sentimental ballads)
Strophic Song
A song which uses the same music for each poetic unit in the song lyrics.
Stephen Foster
Considered to be the most important writer of the 19th century in the US. Wrote sentimental ballads and minstrel show songs.
George Washington Dixon
Successful blackface performer in the early 1830s.
Barbara Allen
A secular song brought over from the British Isles.
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Created most famous blackface character, Jim Crow.
The Cakewalk
Used by the Jim Crow act, it was imitating a dance created by slaves in mockery of the European quadrille.
Origins of Minstrel Music
Probably from British Isles, not African Americans.
Daniel Dacatur Emmett
Leader of a minstrel troupe called Virginia Minstrels.
