Gospel music
Gospel music was most common, and began, in this community.
What is the African-American community?
Soul music evolved from this type of music.
What is gospel music?
A series of notes that make up a single line of music; the main line you would hear in a piece.
What is a melody?
The Civil Rights movement in the 1960's aimed to grant rights to these people.
Who are African-Americans?
R&B stands for...
Rhythm and Blues
This blues musician combined his knowledge of blues and church hymns to create gospel music.
Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
The time period in which soul music became popular.
What is the 1960's?
A series of notes that make up a musical line underneath the melody of a piece, creating chords.
What is a harmony?
A drumset player cannot create harmony. True or false?
True-- drum sets cannot play specific notes, so can't create harmony.
This term refers to a certain style or type of music.
What is genre?
Gospel music combines rhythms and styles from this type of music with the religious message of hymns.
What is blues?
This musician and singer is often known as the "Queen of Soul"
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This type of harmony involves lots of notes at the same time, likely in a different rhythm than the melody.
What are chords?
This type of music was encouraging to people fighting for civil rights.
What is soul music?
A specific record company in Detroit (nicknamed "Motortown") created this type of music.
What is Motown?
This musical technique, often found in gospel music, involves one person singing or playing a short melody, followed by another person or group echoing that melody.
What is call and response?
Name a soul musician, and a song by that musician.
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This term refers to a certain style or type of music.
What is genre?
This famous speaker delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech just after Mahalia Jackson sang during the March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Enslaved African-Americans used this method to communicate with each other as a secret code.
What is music?
"Precious Lord, take my hand" was the song that brought this gospel musician to fame, as well as the genre of gospel as a whole.
Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
This song by James Brown was a bold statement of Black pride.
What is "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"?
This style of music is sung without instrumental accompaniment.
What is a cappella?
George Clinton is known as the father of this subgenre of R&B.
What is funk?
"Beat" or "groove" also refers to the ________ of a song.
What is rhythm?