Black History Genres and Traditions
This is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century, within African-American communities. Its African musical basis is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation and the swung note. Typical Instruments include Guitar, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, Clarinet and Trombone What Genre is it? A) Classical B) Jazz C) Folk
What is Jazz Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGHT40qkysw Start at 23 Minutes
Name that Tune: # 1
What is "Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer-songwriter, dancer, and businessman. Often referred to as "The King of Pop", or by his initials MJ. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana. He was the eighth of ten children in an African-American working-class family who lived in a 3-room house in Gary, an industrial city near Chicago. He and 4 of his siblings created the group "The Jackson 5".
Name that song; # 1
What is "ABC" - The Jackson 5 The Jackson 5, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana. They were one of the first black teen idols to appeal equally to white audiences.
What instrument did the famous black jazz musician, Oscar Peterson" play?
The Piano. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R42fm4lm2Q Oscar Peterson played the piano in a way that very few others have matched. Regarded by many in his lifetime as the greatest jazz pianist in the world, he had a profound influence on Canadian music. Peterson was born in Montreal of Caribbean parents in 1925. Peterson was also a composer. Among Peterson's innumerable awards and honours were Grammy Awards, the International Jazz Hall of Fame Award, Junos, the Order of Canada, the Order of Arts and Letters in France, the Governor General's Performing Arts Award (1992), and numerous honorary degrees. Few Canadians can match his accomplishment or his recognition. Peterson died in 2007.
This genre of music developed in the United States during the slavery era and American Protestantism. The hymns sung by the white settlers and the spirituals sung by the blacks evolved through the centuries to what is known as ___________ music. What genre is it? A) Folk B) Classical C) Gospel
What is C) Gospel Music
Name that Tune: # 2
The Clark Sisters are an American gospel vocal group Born and educated in Detroit. The Clark Sisters are the daughters of gospel musician and choral director Mattie Moss Clark. They are credited for helping to bring gospel music to the mainstream and are considered as pioneers of contemporary gospel.
Name that song: 2
What is "One Love" - Bob Marley Nesta Robert Marley OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who achieved international fame through a series of crossover reggae albums. Bob Marley was born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. He was a European-Jamaican of British heritage.
What instrument did the famous black musician Jimi Hendrix play?
What is Guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtv14q9ZDg He is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."
This is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.It incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American Culture. What genre is it? A. Folk, B. Blues, C. Country
What is B. Blues music ?
Play BB King's The Thrill is Gone!
Name that tune # 3
What is "Respect" - Aretha Franklin Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer and musician. Franklin has been described as "the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America" and a "symbol of black equality".
Name that Song # 3
Lyrics
What is What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Released at the height of the Vietnam War, "What's Going On" is a call for peace, protesting both the war as well as violent police responses to antiwar protests.
Alicia Keys, is an American R&B singer-songwriter, that is best know for playing which instrument?
What is the Piano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN01vHhFZdA
In the mid 1950's-Who was a man of vision, drive, talent, and determination, became a boxer, songwriter, producer, director, entrepreneur, and founded —the hit-making enterprise.
Who was A. Clive Davis, B. Berry Gordy, C. Leonard Chess
Who was the Founder of Motown Records B. Berry Gordy
Name that Tune #4
Who are the brother and sister duo that first appeared on the PTL Show?
Who are Detroit born and Mumford High educated Gospel Artists; Bebe and Cece Winans
Name that Song # 4
Lyrics
What is Gonna have a Funky Good Time by James Brown?
James Brown (born May 3, 1933, Barnwell, South Carolina, U.S.—died December 25, 2006, Atlanta, Georgia) was an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and dancer, who was one of the most important and influential entertainers in 20th-century popular music and whose remarkable achievements earned him the sobriquet “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business.” Having been sampled more than 5,200 times, James Brown is the most sampled artist of all time, while
Name a Detroit area musician who played the Harp.
Who was Detroit Jazz Harpist Dorothy Ashby?
Ashby was born Dorothy Jeanne Thompson and grew up in the jazz community in Detroit, where her father, Wiley Thompson, a self-taught jazz guitarist,[12] often brought home fellow jazz musicians.[13] Even as a young girl, she would provide support and background to their music by playing the piano.
She attended Cass Technical High School,[14] where fellow students included such future musical talents and jazz greats as Donald Byrd, Gerald Wilson, and Kenny Burrell.
This genre was a type of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. This genre of music often encapsulates the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy. It focuses heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures. Typical instruments include: Drum kit, bass guitar, saxophone, horns, piano, organ, electric guitar, vocals, background vocals What is the Genre: A) Rhythm and Blues (R&B) B) Pop Music C) Country Music
What is Rhythm and Blues (R&B) Music. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NESbSLWHe8 (Start around 40 seconds)
Name that Artist #5
What is "Move your Body" - Beyonce Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, simply known as Beyoncé, (born September 4, 1981)is an American recording artist and actress. She was the lead singer of the R&B group Destiny's Child before going solo. Beyonce is of African decent. In 2001 she become the first African-American woman songwriter to win the Pop Songwriter of the Year award.
Name that Song:
Lyrics
Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in
I am everyday people, yeah, yeah
There is a blue one who can't accept
The green one for living with
A fat one tryin' to be a skinny one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby-dooby-dooby
We got to live together
I am no better and neither are you
We're all the same, whatever we do
You love me, you hate me
You know me and then
You can't figure out the bag I'm in
I am everyday people
There is a long hair
That doesn't like the short hair
For being such a rich one
That will not help the poor one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on, scooby-dooby-dooby
We got to live together
There is a yellow one that won't
Accept the black one
That won't accept the red one
That won't accept the white one
Different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and
Scooby-dooby-dooby
I am everyday people
What is Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone
The song is one of Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band.
What was so different about Sly and the Family Stone?
Being a band of musicians who were black and white, men and women, Sly and the Family Stone embodied the promise and the pain of the country during the Sixties. They encountered racism in many places they performed. They exemplified the youth of the countercultural movement in embracing peace and empowering women.
Name the two black male musicians that played the piano and who were blind. (Half the points for each one you can name)
Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls_tMuFkchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9gXgiHSskk Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an African American singer-songwriter, musician and composer known as Ray Charles. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Stevie Wonder, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an African American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.He has been blind since shortly after birth.