MUSA1300 Midterm: Music Midterm Review .docx
22 Jan 2014
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1843: virginia minstrel shows had lengthier performances (cid:224) featured standardized set of performers and organized around sketches/ songs with three main characters: mr. interlocutor = lead performer who sang and provided patter bet acts, bones, tambo, typical minstrel song= fiddle, one or more banjos, a tambourine, and a pair of rib bones held in one hand and clacked together to create a syncopated rhythmic pattern, minstrelsy important (cid:224) popular culture as a key to understanding the development of racial identity in the us including contemporary notions of whiteness and blackness, minstrelsy arose during the 1830s as an expression of a predominately white urban youth culture which sought to express its independence through the appropriation of black style, basic pattern (cid:224) new genre of music arises w/in a marginalized community and then moves into the mainstream of mass popular culture thereby losing much of the rebellious energy that gave rise to it in the 1st pl.
