MUS 505 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-7: African-American Dance, Song Plugger, African-American Culture
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Music is organized sound - edgard varese context of organization of sound= material, economic, social conditions/episteme: what is know and given at a certain time. Christopher small - musicking = taking part in musical performance (dancing + listening to music)/ away from it being an art object and a performance between people taking place in real time. Culture - north american culture/music fundamentally de ned by the slave trade, forcibly taken from africa - music and dance was a way to communicate. N. a. music is a fusion of european colonizers, african slaves and indigenous people of north america. Slavery: africans brought to n. a. to work in sugar, tobacco, cotton and sugar elds. Early african music in america = ring shout, spiritual blues ~ foundations of american music. Colonizers: from british isles (england-scotland-ireland)/protestants broke w/catholic church/reformation. Their religious music psalms (8) + hymns i sing the mighty power of god . Secular music (oral traditions) ~ sea shanty.
