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This composer used transcriptions of Indigenous / Native American music as source material and was the main topic of a core reading in this class.
Who is Amy Beach?
This book by William Billings advanced the place of “American” music as an emergent form and identity.
What is the The New England Psalm-Singer, Or American Chorister (1770)?
This blackface character is a caricature of an old slave with tattered clothing.
Who is Jim Crow?
This mode of performance employed an alternative form of notation in the late 18th and early 19th century.
What is shape note singing?
This style of music is known for its syncopated quality and strong association with pianism.
What is ragtime?
This composer is considered a key figure in the development of American folk music, and is the composer of "Camptown Races."
Who is Stephen C. Foster?
Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, and Horatio Parker, among others, were members of this Boston-based group of composers.
What is the Second New England School?
This device, invented in 1887 by Emile Berliner employed a disc form of playback.
What is a gramophone?
Colonists in the Americas used this conceptual pair as a way of determining “good” or “bad Indians."
What is "Similarity and Difference"?
In 1917, this band made the "first" jazz recording?
What is the ODJB (Original Dixieland Jass Band)?
This guitarist played in the "Texas Blues" sub style of folk/country blues.
Who is Blind Lemon Jefferson?
Shape-note singing was popularized through this particular method and songbook.
What is The Easy Instructor (1801)?
Term to describe a post-Civil War moment where American start to move from a focus popular song forms, to really taking seriously “art” and “art music” as a means of edification. This includes changing concert growing behavior, and the growth of orchestras.
What is the sacralization of culture?
The residency of Antonin Dvořák from 1892-95 resulted in a new interest in this category of music.
What is folk music?
Around the turn of the 20th century this part of society became a critical patron of the arts.
What is academia?
This performer was instrumental in the popularization of Blackface Minstrelsy in the 1830s.
Who is Thomas "T.D." Rice?
This group of composers focused on writing for the concert hall, mostly in and around Boston. They also spent time teaching in universities like Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.
What is the Second New England school?
Reels, Jigs, and hornpipes are examples of music from this immigrant community in America.
“Any change in musical behavior-whether listening, performing, or composing- that has arisen in response to sound-recording technology…any observable manifestation of recording’s influence.”
What is the phonograph effect?
These two marketing categories for music that emerged in the 1920 were strongly correlated to racial identity.
What is "hillbilly music" and "race records"?
This A&R guy "discovered" both Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family on a scouting trip.
Who is Ralph Peer?
This American composer gave a public concert with children in 1830 leading to the popularization and expansion of his teaching method.
Who is Lowell Mason?
This 19th group featured a dedication to reform causes in their music, most notably abolition and temperance.
Who are the Hutchinson Family Singers?
This concept is the combination of real and imagined notions of Black music and their influence on popular music.
What is Blacksound?
This early 20th century American composer was known for his experimentalism and practices of "musical borrowing."
Who is Charles Ives?