Chapter 4 American Music

The __________ has clear West African antecedents.

banjo

Which of the following is NOT a practice or aspect of black musical worship?

field holler

Heterophony is a texture in which

multiple voices simultaneously vary a melody.

According to the 1850 census, in what ratio did people of African descent account for the American population?

one in six

Visiting a plantation in the summer of 1841, New Englander Lewis Paine observed slaves dancing to a unique kind of accompaniment known as

patting juba.

In which colonial region did blacks heavily outnumber whites?

South Carolina

In the Northern United States, Christians generally favored conversion of blacks.

True

The Great Awakening occurred during which period?

1730s and 1740s

The transatlantic slave trade started soon after Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

False

The limited nature of early oral and written African American histories most closely parallels the documentation of what North American demographic?

American Indian

The first all-black congregations were formed in the South in the 1770s and 1780s by

Baptists.

African Americans skilled in Western instrumentation was not commonplace in the 1700s.

False

Legal and social distinctions in which region were less sharp and increased the possibilities for a merging of culture?

Louisiana

Modeling it after the Bay Psalm Book format, __________ published the first hymnal assembled by a black author for a black congregation.

Reverend Richard Allen

Before the end of the American Civil War achieved the abolition of slavery, free blacks in the North had been finding niches in the American music business.

True

By 1800 New Orleans was a multiracial society with less rigid stratification than anywhere else on the continent.

True

By all accounts, slaves were generally expected to sing as well as to work.

True

Settings for camp-meeting hymns typically proved to be interdenominational gatherings that set religion above race.

True

The African American spiritual served a dual purpose as both a religious expression and a call to action.

True

Which of the following is NOT an expressly African musical trait or practice?

Western European harmonic sensibility