Muh3025 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A&R (artists and repertoire) sought out talent arranger reworks songs to complement a particular performer's strengths backbeat A strong accent on beats 2 and 4 of a four beat meter ballad a type of song consisting usually of verses set to a repeating melody in which a story is sung in a narrrative fashion "Barabara Allen" black spirituals Famous Musical repertory that shows traces of painful experiences of African Americans during the slave era that followed their forced movement t...

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...

Old-time music (derived from Europe)a category that comprises string band music (fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and autoharp) European Balladsa story is usually presented in narrative fashion Polyrhythmic (derived from African style)textures produced by many rhythms going on at the same time Syncopation-seen more in African style -"off-beat" pattern, in which the sounds produced by musicians are played very precisely part from or against the underlying steady pulse of the music -r...

A&R (artists and repertoire) sought out talent arranger reworks songs to complement a particular performer's strengths backbeat A strong accent on beats 2 and 4 of a four beat meter ballad a type of song consisting usually of verses set to a repeating melody in which a story is sung in a narrrative fashion "Barabara Allen" black spirituals Famous Musical repertory that shows traces of painful experiences of African Americans during the slave era that followed their forced movement t...

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...

Old-time music (derived from Europe)a category that comprises string band music (fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and autoharp) European Balladsa story is usually presented in narrative fashion Polyrhythmic (derived from African style)textures produced by many rhythms going on at the same time Syncopation-seen more in African style -"off-beat" pattern, in which the sounds produced by musicians are played very precisely part from or against the underlying steady pulse of the music -r...