MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: The Minstrel Show, African-American Music, Song Plugger
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Lecture/ week #2 - i didn"t raise my boy to be a soldier (1915) Great awakening 1730 concepts in the christian faith that paralleled with the experience of the oppressed people ex. The meek shalt inherit the earth the idea of redemption or a better life on the other side through either death judgement day abolishment of slavery: messages of freedom and equality on judgment day. Black preachers developed musically-intoned sermonizing that in uenced popular musicians such as james brown and ray charles. Deep river, marian anderson (1939) idea of crossing over directly out of lyrics of the song the deep river of adversity, separating us from where we come from and where we want to be. Polyrhythmic textures: interlocking of multiple repeating patters: more than one lines of rhythm working together, makes this harder to keep time but forces the music forward. European system, we value clear and clean timbres with all instruments.
