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Enigue Nigue

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Artist: AfroCuba de Matanzas
Decade: 1990s
Genre: Afro-Cuban Rumba
Form: Strophic
Significance: Montuno section, involves call-and-response and solo improvisation.  Example of rumba, friendly competition song.
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Dipper Mouth Blues

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Artist: King Joe Oliver & Creole Jazz Band
Decade: 1920s
Genre: Jazz
Form: Three sections, ABC
Significance: Improvisation, first African American Jazz recording. King Joe Oliver as Louis Armstrong’s mentor.

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My Blue Heaven

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Artist: Gene Austin
Decade: 1920s
Genre: Crooner, Tin Pan Alley
Form: Verse-refrain (AABA refrains)
Significance: Best-selling record of its era.  Features crooning as a new musical style.
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St. Louis Blues

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Artist: Bessie Smith (& Louis Armstrong)
Decade: 1920s
Genre: Classic Blues
Form: Twelve-bar blues
Significance: Early racial crossover hit, one of the first hit blues songs.  Race record.
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Black Snake Moan

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Artist: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Decade: 1920s
Genre: Country Blues
Form: 
Significance: Jefferson as the first country blues star, sexual imagery in the text.  Race record.
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Hound Dog

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Artist: Big Mama Thornton
Decade: 1950s
Genre: R&B
Form: 12-bar blues
Significance: One of the most influential female R&B singers.  Lyrics project image of female power.
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Maybellene

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Artist: Chuck Berry
Decade: 1950s
Genre: Rock n roll (vocal-based R&B)
Form: Verse-Chorus
Significance: Chuck Berry's first pop music hit. Novel synthesis of explosive tempo, electric guitar, and humorous lyrics.
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Don’t Be Cruel

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Artist: Elvis Presley
Decade: 1950s
Genre: Rock n roll
Form: Verse-chorus
Significance: Uses electronic reverb, a mixture of rockabilly, swing, blues, and R&B styles; with backing vocals by the Jordanaires.
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La Bamba

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Artist: Ritchie Valens
Decade: 1950s
Genre: Rock n roll
Form: Strophic
Significance: Latin influence on rock n roll, adaptation of Mexican son jarocho folk song.
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You Can’t Hurry Love

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Artist: The Supremes
Decade: 1960s
Genre: Motown
Form: Unknown, intricate
Significance: Example of an innovatively structured Motown song with a structure that reflects its lyrics
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Good Vibrations

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Artist: The Beach Boys (led by Brian Wilson)
Decade: 1960s
Genre: Rock n roll
Form: Unique
Significance: The most innovative single from the 60s. Features a developing, non-repeating form, with unusual instrumentation and a theremin.

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El Watusi

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Artist: Ray Baretto
Decade: 1960s
Genre: bugalu (Latin soul)
Form: ?
Significance: Based on Latin charanga dance music style, with violins playing repeated montuno.  One of the musicians plays the role of a man nicknamed "Watusi".
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Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag

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Artist: James Brown (The Godfather of Soul)
Decade: 1960s
Genre: Soul
Form: Twelve-bar blues
Significance: Classic form, but groundbreaking new sound that defined dance-oriented soul music, with a repeating instrumental riff.

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Like a Rolling Stone

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Artist: Bob Dylan
Decade: 1960s
Genre: Urban folk
Form: Verse-chorus
Significance: Challenged existing restrictions on length, subject matter, and poetic direction of pop music.  Renowned for its sonic density, and being the longest pop single up to its time.
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Oye Como Va

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Artist: Santana
Decade: 1970s
Genre: Jazz, Latin rock, Salsa
Form: Sectional
Significance: Features electrified Afro-Cuban dance rhythm.  Example of improvisational, rhythmicaly layered nature of Santana recordings.
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Bad Girls

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Artist: Donna Summer
Decade: 1970s
Genre: Disco
Form: Verse-chorus
Significance: Characterized by heavy beat, fast tempo, and repetitive song form
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Pedro Navaja

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Artist: Willie Colon and Ruben Blades
Decade: 1970s
Genre: Salsa
Form: 
Significance: Contains call-and-response dominated montuno section.  Song had enormous impact on Latin American audiences.
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The Message

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Artist: Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Decade: 1980s
Genre: Hip-hop
Form:
Significance: Established trend of social realism in rap. Portrays the first honest description of life in the ghettos.

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Walk this Way

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Artist: Run-DMC feat. Aerosmith
Decade: 1980s
Genre: Hip-hop
Form: 
Significance: Example of the first successful synergy between rock and hip-hop.
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April Showers

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Artist: Al Jolson
Decade: Two recordings, 1920s & 1930s
Genre: Tin Pan Alley
Form: Verse-refrain (ABAC refrains)
Significance: In second recording, Jolson breaks into song-speak. In second recording, band plays mood-setting intro.

Music 162 Final (Ch. 11-15) (2 decks)

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