Black Music
This musical tradition features a leader followed by a group response.
What is call-and-response?
The earliest music created by enslaved Africans is known by this name.
What are Spirituals?
These songs blended African traditions with Christian beliefs.
What are Spirituals?
Spirituals often looked to this book source for stories of freedom and deliverance.
What is the Bible?
The composer of Wade in the Water is credited to this group of people.
Who are The Enslaved?
Music created during slavery often served as a secret form of this.
What is communication (or resistance)?
Jazz grew directly from the traditions of this earlier genre.
What is the Blues?
This network is believed to have used songs like Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and Wade in the Water as coded guidance.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The idea that the "North" and "Home" represented
What is freedom?
This Biblical event inspired the message of the song.
What is the crossing of the Red Sea?
This singer was nicknamed the "First Lady of Song."
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
The Harlem Renaissance is most associated with this genre.
What is Jazz?
Rather than being written down, these musical traditions were passed from one generation to the next in this way.
What is oral tradition?
This musical genre grew directly out of the tradition of spirituals and became central to many Black churches.
What is Gospel music?
Traveling through water helped escapees avoid detection by these animals.
What are tracking dogs?
DAILY DOUBLE: Name four genres that grew directly from Black musical traditions.
Blues, Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Soul, Rock and Roll, Hip-Hop, Trap, etc.
The Civil Rights era helped popularize this genre, later called R&B.
What is Rhythm and Blues?
These songs helped workers keep time while performing difficult labor.
What are Work Songs?
The lyrics of many spirituals were inspired by stories from this religion.
What is Christianity?
According to the lecture, the lyrics served as this type of communication.
What is a coded message?
This saxophonist became a leader in avant-garde jazz.
Who is Archie Shepp?
DAILY DOUBLE: Which genre was born alongside Ragtime in the early 1900s?
What is Blues?
This circular dance preserved African traditions in secret gatherings.
What is a Ring Shout?
These student singers helped their school by touring the United States and Europe for profit.
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
This form describes Wade in the Water because the same melody is repeated for each verse.
What is strophic form?