Miscellaneous
When did the 1st Africans arrive in North America?
August 1619
Who made the link between the Bessie Smith blues and Mahalia Jackson's gospel?
Thomas Dorsey
African music focuses on improvisation through ________ songs.
extempore
What is the progression of types of religious songs throughout the years?
Psalms --- Hymns --- Spiritual songs
In what year did all 13 colonies have slaves?
1700
Who was the 1st African author to write a book in English?
Equiano
What is rhythm that comes on the off beat?
Syncopation
What is the "Great Awakening"?
A demand for livelier music in worship. Hymns were created (more of religious poems instead of spiritual songs).
By the end of the century, what fraction of the Methodist church was black?
1/5
Who was the 1st to write the music he heard from Africa (transcribe)?
Thomas Edward Bowdich
What is the name of an African thumb piano?
mbira
What is call and response?
Altering solo vs. solo, solo vs. small ensemble, solo vs. group
What was the earliest, permanent, African American congregation?
First African Baptist Church in Savannah, GA
Who formed the Methodist Church along with their father?
Wesley Brothers (John, Charles)
What is it called when a presenter sings a line and the congregation follows?
Lining Out
What was the Withdrawal Movement (can provide a specific example)?
(Richard Allen and Absolin Jones, when the white trustee asked them to leave their 5am service)
What does Glossolalia mean?
speaking in tongues
Who published a hymnal for his church? What was the name of the church?
Richard Allen
AME Church
List the 4 types of African instruments and what they are.
Membranophones - drums
Idiophones - bells, gongs, sticks, rattles
Aerophones - wind instruments
Chordophones - string instruments
Describe the key characteristics of Evangelicalism, the Holiness Movement, and Pentecostalism.
Evangelicals stress personal conversion and societal reform; strict rules.
The Holiness Movement also stressed personal conversion, with emphasis on moral and behavioral codes; differentiate from the rest of the world.
Pentecostalism stressed baptism and experience, especially speaking in tongues.