MUSI 431 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Dance Hall
1 Sep 2016
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Influences: puerto rico, jamaica dance hall music, trinidad soca (rhythm, columbia chapeta (rhythm) Characteristics: rapped lead vocals, upbeat rhythm, sol influences. Historical: originated in jamaica, construction of panama canal led to spread. Workers migrated from jamaica: egardo a. franco el geneal . Most popular musician who contributed to popularity: spread to us and continued to evolve. Nyc, la, miami: dance moves just as popular as music. _: currently popular in mexico, peru, panama, and much of the caribbean, multiple subgenres developed. All end in ton as homage to original term. Musical elements: rhythm: haba ero pulse and tresillo. Tresillo = dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter x infinity: simple harmony. Not acoustic more about production value. Society"s art shaping perceptions of social relations (moore"s argument) Blackface (minstrelsy: roles conformed to stereotypes/fears of white people. Don"t actually reflect reality: most popular form of entertainment in us from 1840"s vaudeville"s rise in the early.
