MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African-American Dance, Double Bass, Electric Guitar
17 Apr 2016
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Chapter 2: popular music of the 19th century and early 20th cent. First form of musical and theatrical entertainment recognized as distinctly american: featured white performers who darkened their skin (known as blackface and enacted parodies of. Live minstrel shows took place in theatres, bars, and barns all across the country: minstrel songs sold as sheet music - big business, hit ethiopian song - zip coon. Minstrel dance: the cake walk, originally an african american parody of white dance styles, then became a white parody of the black parody . It positions them as strictly victims, as opposed to subjects who continually resist their own domination in various ways, even as they continue to be marginalized. Music has always been a way out of (if only temporarily) the degradations of second class citizenship in north american culture. Wind instruments: woodwinds sound produced by blowing into a metal or wooden tube through a mouth piece with a vibrating wooden reed.
