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Five “Themes”

1. Listening Critically (terminology)2. Music and Identity3. Music and Technology4. Music is a Business5. Music has “Centers” and “Peripheries”

(places)

Music Centers & Peripheries

• “Centers” – money, power and control- NYC, LA, Nashville (?!)- aims at the mass (= urban, white) market

• “Peripheries” – the edges- physically remote- lacking in power or influence- stylistically unique or “different” (often)

• Peripheries influence and change Centers

Streams of Traditions• Three main sources of American Pop Music• European

- chiefly white (Anglo) Northern Europe- British Isles (Scotch, Welsh, Irish, etc.)

• African- chiefly from West Central Africa- imported slaves (mostly) to Southern regions

• Latin America- Caribbean, Mexican, Brazil, etc.- often mixes African w/ indigenous elements

“Barbary Allen”• Folk Music• Appalachian region

(from Anglo-Irish) • “Ballad” tradition

(tells a story)• Child Ballad # 84• Strophic form• “a cappella”

performance• Jean Ritchie--Barbry All

en – YouTube

[Textbook, p. 21-3]

Jean Ritchie (b. 1922; d. 2015);

Kentucky native

“Soldier’s Joy”• “Old Time Music”• String-band tradition• Used for dancing• 1st “Hillbilly” recordings• Ex.

Gid Tanner And His Skillet Lickers-Soldier's Joy

[Textbook, p. 23-5]• Revived as “folk music”• Tommy Jarrell - Soldiers Joy

– YouTube [Textbook, p. 25]

“Gid” Tanner and Skillet Lickers

Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985)

African Musical Traits

• Gahu Ghanaian/Ewe dance/drum – YouTube• African Ghana Drum Music – YouTube• African Drumming - dancedrummer.com - African Music

• Emphasis on Rhythm

• Use of Percussion• Interlocking Parts

(Dense texture)• Ostinato• Improvisation• Call & Response

“Coo Coo”• African-American• Influence of African

polyrhythms• Banjo (from Akonting”)• Improvisation• The Coo Coo (Coo Coo

Bird) • Dink Roberts: Fox Chas

e / Old Rattler (1983) – YouTube

“Dink” Roberts (1894-1984)

“Long John”• “Work Song”

- pass the time- coordinate action

• Southern Plantations• “Chain Gangs”• “Call and Response”• "Lightnin" Washington-

Long John – YouTube

[Textbook, p. 32]• WORK SONG / LIGHT

NING - LONG JOHN - YouTube

“Stagolee”

• Af-Am Ballad tradition• Reconstruction era

- Sharecropping- “Jim Crow” laws

• Mythic character (“Stagolee,” etc.)

• Polyrhythmic guitar• Stackolee Mississippi Joh

n Hurt – YouTube

[Textbook, p. 33-4]

“Mississippi” John Hurt (1892-1966)

“Latin America”

• South of United States• Colonized by Europe

- Spain- France- Portugal

• Mixtures of - Indigenous- European- African (sometimes)

“La Cumparsita”• Tango (dance from slums)• Argentina (chiefly, but also….)• “Habanera” rhythms• Arrastre (“drag”)• Examples [textbook, p. 37-8]

- Carlos Gardel - La Cumparsita - Tango – YouTube (1928 rec.)- La Cumparsita - Francisco Canaro y su orquesta ( G. Matos Rodriguez ) – YouTube (instrumental version)

• Dance Examples- Basic Tango Demo (Music) by Mirko & Alessia – YouTube- Roberto and Jacklyn's Sexy Tango - YouTube

Carlos Gardel (1890-1935)

“Enigue Nigue”• Afro-Cuban

- based in drum ensembles- docks of Matanzas (Cuba)

• Rumba (competitive dance)• Guaguanco

- “Rooster and Hen” - “vacunao”

• Examples - Rumba Street Party 2 with Clave y Guaguanco by AfroRomanzo – YouTube- Rumba Guaguancó - "El Solar de los 6" - Cultura de Cuba - viaDanza Tanzreisen – YouTube

• Textbook ex., p. 39-41(on your own)

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“La Negra”• Mariachi

- entertainment- marriage, social events

• Guadalajara, Jalisco(western) Mexico

• Small string bands• Professionalization (1930s)

- move to urban centers- add trumpets, others

• ExampleMariachi Vargas deTecalitlan Son de La Negra[Textbook, p. 42-3]

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