MUS 135 Study Guide - Music Of Africa, Work Song, Historically Black Colleges And Universities
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Traditional african music, folk music: africans used/defined music differently from europeans, africans had work songs that took their minds off of work, music is passed by oral tradition. Relatively short musical phrases that are repeated often: harmony: chord that supports the melody, first africans arrived in america in 1619, 12 years after founding of jamestown, psalmody: earliest form of music to develop in america, stage one: africans. Holler: this served as a non-textual means of communicating between slaves over long distances. Call: non verbal, social interaction, yell kinda thing. Cry: sometimes have text, personal form of expression. Slave getaway for religious meetings; dance and sing spirituals ( swing low, sweet chariot ) Moses: great emancipator: ohio river was a good passage area, ring shouts: New year"s eve: watch night slaves thought that the year of jubilee come on jan. 1. Black college: hbcu- historically black colleges and universities. Fisk jubilee singers: there"s no hiding place down here .
