![]() ![]() ![]() Sings "Blue Yodels" and "Waiting for a train"Īccredited with moving the genre from it's early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer based format that helped make it internationally succesfulįormed during the late 1950s as a sub-genre of american country music Traditional features vocal quality (nasal, unadorned, no vibrato, straightforward rendition of the melody) and no drums, horns, riffs or other influences from pop or jazz Recommended to peer by Polk Brockman to record Won the Atlanta Old Tim Fiddler's Convention many times Okeh/Black Swan/Columbia/RCA Victor/Dekka Records Renamed rhythm and blues in 1948 a the urging of Paul Ackermanġ930's, independent radio stations discovered that a set of recorded songs provided for a suitable show on the radio ![]() Record companies used terms race/hillbilly musicĬonsidered blues, jazz, country music today Most associated with commercial field recordings Hybridization contributed to the blues entering mainstream of American popular music Hybrid approach, blending aspects of Tin Pan Alley style with blues Interviewed Lead Belly, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton- with Library of Congress Right hand plays riffs idiomatic to pianoįamous ethnomusicoligist/folklorist in the 1940s Repetitive bass figure outlines blues harmony Verse/refrain form (4 bars tell a story eight repeat the refrain)Ī style of piano-based blues that became very popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s Novelty son, syncopation, dance like beat Dorsey is regarded as the father of black gospel Hokum blues band - sings "It's Tight Like That" and "I'm Gonna Get High" The person responsible for advertising songs and getting them to radio stationsįirst two lines are repeated, then new lyric line introducedīerlin was the most prolific and consistent of TPA composers The people responsible for ensuring artists and composers are paid when their material is used commercially The person who prepares and adapts an already written composition in a different way The person who creates the music, either by notation or oral tradition Named after the barrage of different sounds that could be heard coming out of windows as songwriters worked Located in NYC- produced sheet music and popular songs People became more interested about a particular artist's version of a song and songs started to be identified by who recorded them, rather than who wrote them Used to be popularly sold so anyone could perform it any way they wished to. Term used to describe the creation of music as a product to sell Vaudeville theatre chain (keith-albee-orpheum-co) "mother of the blues" and mentor to Bessie Smithįamous blues singer sang "Backwater Blues" Sounds more professional than country blues Songs that cross over into different genresĮx: country songs become pop or top billboard songs Rhythmic complexity with accents off the down beat Provided music for social dances such as turkey trot, chicken scratch and bunny hugĪccompanied a simplified version of piano ragtime musicįascination of black people by white peopleĭeveloped ragging piano style, improvising around the themes of popular songs and marches in a syncopated style Marching band music contributed the regular "oom-pah" bass common in ragtime pieces Introduces syncopated african-american rhythm into popular musicĮnlivens music by shifting melodic accents off the beat in a bouncy beat(aka syncopation)Īdditive rhythm thattakes groups of beats and strings them together linearly (ex. Originated through the mississippi valley Groups would follow a geographical itinerary Theatrical genre of variety entertainment Imitated an African-American dance-step called the "cakewalk" and called is "Jumpin' Jim Crow"Īfrican-american parody of white americans making the grand entry to a social dance, usually accompanied by rhythms of exemplified syncopation George Washington Dixie - "city slicker," "country bumpkin" Instruments: banjo bones and tambourine, fiddle Showed disdain for the attitude of elite/genteel society The series of nots, chord pattern or musical phrase that is repeatedĪ short melody that often gets repeated appeared often in Motown melodiesīlackface performance (white people performing black arts)ĭesignated as America's first type of popular music Beats 2 and 4 essential component of rhythm ![]()
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