Part A and B Flashcards
Go Down Moses Artist and Year?
Earliest known record of it is Fisk Jubilee singers in 1872
Slave trade Ends?
1808, though dates range from 1500-1850 due to use of already owned slaves
Abolition of Slavery
1861-1865
Field Hollers
- Comes in the 1850s, recorded in the 1930s
- Form of escapism while working in the fields
- Working to a given rhythm
Subsequent Genres to Field Hollers
- Blues 1890s: Call and response, banjo and Kora (city and country)
- Ragtime: Syncopation and rhythm and work
(Sync also seen in all jazz)
How does the recording of jazz begin?
1917, Dixieland Jazz Band, white people begin ‘doing’ jazz, race records then follow in the 1920s
How did New Orleans become important?
Allowed Jazz in a sense: Diversity in its background between African Americans of French and Spanish decent. African Americans are also now living in a tone of freedom. Also storyville becomes a place for performance
Why was the Great Migration important?
Because it moved Jazz musicians to places like chicago and new york that were perceived as more liberal, spreading the music across the country rather than keeping it in new orleans and the deep south.
Antiphony
Call and Respone: ‘Go down, moses’
‘Let my people go’
Importance of Antiphony
One voice and overarching leader
Lack of written word in jazzes origins
Black church = no hymnal books
Syncopation
Rhythm of work, also just incredibly idiomatic of jazz
Biblical References
Christian influence over Africa
Freed American community in the US
References Gospel
Overarching message of freedom
Reclamation of Christianity in some way
Ironic in a sense that those saved by moses are those enslaving black people
Pre/Mid colonization in Mexico
1492, Chrisopher Columbus ‘discovers’ America
Post Colonial Mexico: When, who, what?
1821, Mexico is New Spain
Main Demographics are criollos, mestizos and conquistadors
Year of Mexican Revolution?
1910
Goal of Mexican Revolution?
Overthrow Porfiro Diaz initially though eventually grows into a socioeconomic reclamation of mexicos character
Agrarian Reform?
A part of this reclamation is the agrarian reform in which land ownership becomes usufruct meaning it is owned by who work sit rather than having regulated property rights
Indigenismo?
Indigenismo is then brought up as this form of avant garde in mexico as the new agrarian and rural culture of mexico is being depicted in art, showing landscapes and mestizos rather than spanish catholic influences
End of Revolution?
Jose Vasconcelos is minister of education and must cure illiteracy of the rural culture of mexico, part of which is commissioning public art
Where is Fraternidad?
SEP, Secreteria de Educacion Publica
How is the Mestizos important?
In reestablishing a state, a national identity is needed for some kind of reclamation. The mestizos becomes that
Industrial and Agrarian
Joining in the center, showing the two economic histories of mexico, symbolised by the traded iron and bread and the hammer and scythe
Mestizos
Mestizos is in a position suggesting jesus implying the cosmis race and also the emergence of a new people/race and a new national identity
