[MUS 302] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (30 pages long)

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Sometimes white americans had a fascination with black culture (in. Gullah- a development of african culture in america. The buzzard lope georgia sea island singers (1. 8, p 57-8) African aesthetics: call and response, drums, syncopation, ring shout. Compared to : after the ball charles harris, 1892. First american composed piece of music to sell 1 million copies. Control of timbre, no matter what the emotion is. Opposed to african singing, timbre follows emotion. Blues was seen as a genre with lots of sadness; became a stereotype for all black music: blues=black/sad= black people are better equipped to express their sadness. Uses a slide to step out of the machine": has a natural gravelly voice that is contrast to european music, call and response between guitar, stomping, and voice. Slave/plantation bands were able to play classical and african based music. They could make african music accessible to white people.

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