MUSIC140 Final: MUSIC 140 Lecture Notes [Full Course] File contains concise, accurate summary of lecture notes taken during the course. Arranged chronologically by date for ease of use. Contains notes from the entire semester.
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Spirituals pre-civil war / gospel post civil war. At the end of the year the owner would take those crops and sell them and share the profits with the former slave 50/50. In the beginning however the slaves had no property so they needed the former slave owner to set them up in the first place with food, a place to stay, equipment, etc. This would lead to indentured servitude as the former slave never made enough with his crop to equalize what the former slave owner spent on setting them up. Jim crow laws in southern states said that in your own establishment you could choose who you wanted to serve and who you didn"t, and that you could make this decision based on skin color. Laws passed due to bitterness about the south losing the war. In this post-war environment we begin to see the emergence of jazz, ragtime and blues.
