Music of Multicultural America midterm
Howlin Wolf
Chicago "Electric" Blues; Muddy Water's biggest opponent
Willie Dixon
Chicago blues composer and session bass player
Muddy Waters
Chicago blues who used electric guitar, discovered by Lomaxs, more refined pioneer of rock
Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Matchbox Blues", 3 verses don't line up between the different versions, different guitar used as well
ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
Mamie Smith
A vaudeville singer, was the first African-American woman to sing the blues
downhome blues
Early blues, chiefly sung by a-a men accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar; smaller ensembles, just verse
Mike Seeger
American folk musician
Tommy Jarrell
An influential old-time fiddler and banjo player from the mountains of North Carolina; "Drunken Hiccups"
Bessie Smith
Empress of the Blues; vaudeville
Dennis McGee
Famous fiddler in the 30's. Music parter of Amede. Put Cajun music on the map. Responsible for the type of music still being played in Louisiana
Jimmie Rodgers
Father of Country Music; combined country, blues and yodeling
Amede Ardoin
First great Creole accordion player from Louisiana in the early 20th century. Created Cajun accordion style. Played w/ Dennis McGee.
The Weavers
Folk revival group
Cecil Sharp
Founding father of folklore revival in England, and many of England's traditional dances and music owe their continuing existence to his work in recording and publishing them; collected only white music
Johann Gottfried Herder
German scholar who studied the origins of folk music, rural, enlightenment counter
Francis James Child
Harvard professor & folklorist who collected text only and published variations of 305 Scottish and English folk ballads
Ralph Peer
Missouri-born talent scout who worked as an assistant on Mamie Smith's first recording sessions and was the first to use the catchphrase "race music." Discovered the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers "hillbilly music"
Fiddlin' John Carson
Musician from Georgia who made the first commercially successful hillbilly record
Leonard Chess
Owner of Chess Records, specialized in blues, signed Chuck Berry
John Lomax
Recorded and preserved folk and cowboy music with his 1910 anthology, "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads; mentored by Child proteges, sought out living practitioners; took LB's $, treated him as an indentured servant
blue note
a minor interval where a major would be expected, used especially in jazz.
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin & Canray Fontenot
accordion & fiddle for Cajun music
agency
an individual's active role in shaping their situation (Lead Belly)
Paul Butterfield Blues Band
appeared at the Newport Folk Festival with Dylan in 1965, 1st Chicago blues band, walking bass line
Olive Dame Campbell
collected songs in Southern App; first to do fieldwork, recording device; more ethnographic; racialist agenda
Hillybilly music
commercialized, early country
Alan Lomax
ethnomusicologist; recorded LB while in prison and put together a large collection of old spirituals and folk songs; used recording technology in fieldwork, focused on musical style; more dynamic, ethnomusicological
Clifton Chenier
first "King of Zydeco". Won title by winning an accordion contest.
The Carter Family
first family of country music
Pete Seeger
folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s; wants to get audience involved, no star allure, communal
affinity
fondness; liking; similarity
Robert Johnson
icon of downhome blues, more professional, related to work songs, "Crossroad Blues"
mediation
intermediate stage between artistic production & the audience
Danny Poullard
internal creole revival, liked the white style of accordion (cajun); SF Bay
Bob Dylan
introduced electric guitar to the Newport Folk Festival; part of counter culture
Leo Soileau
introduced the fiddle to Cajun swing; movement of Cajun to professional music; urban, whiteness
cajun swing
like country music, peddle steal guitar, more commercialized
urban blues
lyrics are more focused on urban, electric guitar, refrain, possible horns
roots
music springing from a particular culture
Dewey Balfa/Balfa Brothers
non-professional Cajun musicians, preserve French creole tradition; also educated schools
New Lost City Ramblers
old-time revival
Lester Melrose
one of the first producers of blues records at Chess Records
folk song
participatory, guitar, banjo, nasally
multimusicality
people who play many types of music (LB)
commodification
process of turning something into a commodity for sale
folk
rural/peasant, not urban, reaction to the Enlightenment
old time string band music
social dance music, fiddle, guitar
British ballads of S. Appalachian
solo, female voice, unadorned, dramatic text
traditional
songs about tradition, rural, field music
ethnomusiciology
study of music of different cultures
vernacular
the language of everyday speech in a particular region
zydeco
the music of French speaking African Americans of South Louisiana; the song is sung in French and musical accompaniment includes an accordion and the rub board
fieldwork
the study of geographic phenomena by visiting places and observing how people interact with and thereby change those places; seen with British ballads & hillybilly music
songster
wandering musician; LB
Lead Belly
wanted a professional career & had a broad spectrum of music, wrote his own music, exploited by the Lomaxes, "In the Pines", "Mr. Tom Hughes Town"
cajun-creole
white, accordion, nasally, fiddle