BACKGROUND INFORMATION African Music Role of Music: African music is a vital part of everyday life in Africa. It is a part of religious ceremonies, festivals, and social rituals. Songs are used for the important events in a person's life (birth, coming of age, marriage, and death). They are used for curing the sick, bringing rain, and religious dances. Many Africans believe that music serves as a link with the spirit world. Everyone plays an active part in the musical life of the community. Music
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is call and response. It is when a statement in music is made, either vocally or instrumentally, so that it may be responded to. The response can be the repetition of the first statement or the completion of it. This musical attribute is popular in jazz, ragtime, blues, gospel, and R&B. This is one of the many ways in which African music has greatly helped to shape American popular music. Other musical attributes derived from African music include different vocal styles (such as guttural effects
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1. Louis Armstrong- trumpet –A 2. Bix Beiderbecke- trumpet – A 3. Joe “King” – trumpet – A 4. Roy Eldridge- trumpet – B 5. Cottie Williams- trumpet – B 6. Clifford Brown- trumpet – C 7. Miles Davis – trumpet – C 8. Don Ellis- trumpet – C 9. Maynard Ferguson – trumpet – C 10. Dizzy Gillespie- trumpet – C 11. Art Tatum- piano A 12. Fats Wakker- piano –A 13. Bud Powell- piano – A 14. Jelly Roll- piano – A 15. Errol Garner – piano – A 16. Earl “Fatha”-
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influenced by African American music as well as white American styles. Since the introduction of minstrel shows in America in 1840, people have created and developed many other kinds of music. Mostly originated from African Americans, swing, blues, and jazz music was an early beginning to rock music. Many musical qualities were brought with African slaves into America. Some of the qualities include improvisation, “call and response” singing, and a dynamic rhythm. They created spiritual music and blues
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Chapter1 1. What do ethnomusicologists mean when they say, “Music is universal, but it is not a universal language”? Ethnomusicologists perceive music in a semiotic view in which the music is a series of symbols that can be interpreted, not a series of words that can be read. 2. What are the potential problems in classifying music as “classical,” “folk,” or “popular”? In each culture, different styles of music may be considered to be one classification in one culture, and something else in another
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Blues On My Mind In this song by Blue Mitchell, Blues On My mind, Blue Mitchell really emphasizes the blues in his solo. The chords in the song are played a little differently than the regular. There is a lot of added notes such as the ninth in chords as well as added fifths. The drummer is playing a shuffle type feel throughout the whole song. The snare hits on two and four along with the cymbal. In the solo, Blue Mitchell uses the basic blues except he adds a couple of bebop lines especially
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Jazz Gumbo Gumbo was the portrait of New Orleans; it was the birth place of Jazz in the 1800’s. It was an improvisational art form that people created because it celebrates human life and dealt with it and it became powerful. People from all over the world came to New Orleans because it was known to be the “Musical City” in America. Jazz bands played to entertain the rich folks. Slaves had to improvise to survive. African Americans were the only slaves and became introduced to the entertainment
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out in the 1940s when jazz was just starting off. “Early jazz musicians used “hep” for anyone who was in the know” about the culture that was the beginning of something new (Faulkner). The fans of jazz were known as hepcats but Cab Calloway defined the word hepcats as “a guy who knows all the answers, understands jive” so he used the word hepsters instead to describe the people of jazz instead (McKay). This soon caught on and later turned into hipsters. In the 1940s, jazz was becoming more popular
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singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt. Then, offer commentary regarding the similarities and differences
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In Summertime, the use of jazz inspired chords (the dominant 11th and 13th, added 6th) are very different to the simple voiced chords of Flow My Tears, with complex dissonances and intervals. In Bar 2, the use of the F natural is the flattened fifth, creating a blue note, common of African-American folk music originating in slave-song. The references to the pentatonic and whole tone scales are the result of Gershwin’s classical background but his interest in jazz, they are also prevalent in African-American
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