MUSICOL 139 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: African-American Music, Big Mama Thornton, Machine Age
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Assembly line model: rock n" roll, african american musical practices, working class worldview, Recordings (oral, heavy-handed/urban, nationwide appeal, focus on youth culture, 12 bar blues, electric guitar the beat : explain what was revolutionary and significant about rock and roll. Racial ambiguity: once was used as a word to replace r&b to cover up r&b"s african. American musics across genres or commenting on the search to construct/synthesize an american music, whether by consciously drawing on existing musics or by forming new hybrids) Used taxi horns in an american in paris for musical effect: modern european composers have largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from machine age america. Spring: wanted to think of these compositions as an extension of his compositional abilities rather than works that counteracted his previous work. Berry: marketed towards an interracial teen audience, berry"s style was heavily based on blues and jazz guitarist influences like charlie.
