African American
Worship Music
Worship Music
This is the typical style of vocals in African American music - not strict or rigid, that that of classical music.
What are speechlike vocals?
This is the term for making up the music as you go.
What is improvisation?
This is the texture of most Indigenous music.
What is monophonic?
This is the name of the event that features intertribal singing and dancing, including drum circles.
What is a powwow?
These are the syllables in Indigenous music which do not have a lexical meaning but are nonetheless understood.
What are vocables?
This is the type of interaction you are likely to see at an African American worship service (not a performer/audience relationship).
What is participatory?
This is the style of electric guitar-centered blues played by Muddy Waters in the song "Hoochie Coochie Man."
What is Chicago-style blues?
These are the two nonvocal instruments you are most likely to hear in an Eskanye.
What are the cow horn rattle and water drum?
This is the name for the verse that is heard four times in drum circle music.
What is the Push-Up?
These are the louder, harder drum strokes that signal the arrival of a new section in drum circles.
(Remember, a rectangle is not always a square...there are two other names...pick the MAIN one!)
What are honor beats?
These are songs in the African-American community that are focused on a Christian life, but tend to be more lively than a hymn.
What are gospel songs?
This is the term for variable notes in secular African-American music.
Who are the gods?
These are the personnel involved in drum circles.
Who are leads, seconds, songmakers, and drum carriers?
This is the term for the 'conversation' that happens between two musicians or groups of musicians in a song.
What is call and response?
This is the TEXTURE of most African-American worship and blues music.
What is heterophonic?
This is the most common form (based on a specific chord progression) in blues music.
What is the 12-bar blues?
This is the Navajo concept of being truly at peace with yourself and one with your surroundings.
What is hozho?
This Indigenous language is briefly used in "Reservation of Education."
What is Navajo?
This is the term for phrases that have similar musical ideas, such as the rhythmic and pitch similarities at the start of each phrase of the Happy Birthday song.
What are motivic relationships?
This is the word for the way that lyrics are arranged in African-American worship music, also known as strophes or verses.
What are stanzas?
What is Downhome blues?
(aka Delta, country)
This is the religion practiced by the Haudenosaunee people.
What is Longhouse Religion?
In the climate of assimiliation, this particular practice by the US government was the subject of the song "Reservation of Education" by XIT.
What are boarding schools?
While jazz is a technique and a way of forming the music, blues is these two things.
What are a feeling and a form?