Minstrelsy - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Minstrel Show:first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as American in character. Minstrel Shows featured:mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and enacted parodies of African American music, dance, dress, and dialect. Today blackface minstrelsy is:quite reasonably regarded with embarrassment or anger. Evolution of blackface minstrelsy suggests:that this seminal form of American pop culture emerged from rough-and-tumb...

Test 1 1. Syncopation occurs when: • An accent arrives in an unexpected place (Correct) 2. "Harmony" is defined as: • Multiple pitches at the same time (Correct) 3. A layered rhythmic pattern: • Groove (Correct) 4. "Meter" is defined as: • A pattern of stressed and unstressed beats (Correct) 5. refers to the collection of instruments playing at any given time, while refers to the tone color of a single instrument. • Texture: Timbre (Correct) 6. American Song...