1. Review Sheets #1, #2 & #3 are now posted!
MUH Music in the United States
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Review Sheets #1, #2 & #3 are now posted!
Use these questions to guide your studying.
Do not forget the supplemental reading.
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2. Primary Source Summary Project
Instructions remain posted on course website
READ and FOLLOW all instructions
Paper due on Monday, 7 Oct 5:00 pm (two weeks from today)

3. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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Chapter Four
“Make A Noise” : African American Music before the Civil War
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4. General African Music Traits
MUH Music in the United States
General African Music Traits
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Non-notated (=Oral) tradition
Emphasis on Rhythm (often: Polyrhythm)
Use of Percussion
Density of Timbre (“buzzy sound”)
Use of Ostinato
Use of interlocking parts
Call and Response
Controlled Improvisation
Associated w/ Dance and/or Ceremony
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5. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
AF-Am Music-Making
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Oral Tradition from 18th C (no written records)
Distinguish between: - Slaves performing for whites (encouraged) - Blacks performing for blacks (discouraged)
Traditional (Southern) Af-Am Music-Making
Pattin’ Juba: Danny “Slapjazz” Barber
Hollerin’ (Spivey’s Corner, NC): Champions…
Field Holler: Whoa Buck
Quitting Time: Quittin' time song
Work Song: Lightning- Long John (by a chain gang)
Work Song: “Carrie Belle” [LG 4.1, textbook, p. 79]
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6. Sacred Music in Northern States
MUH Music in the United States
Sacred Music in Northern States
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Limited slavery in North
Christianized Blacks
Segregated Services
A[frican] M[ethodist] E[piscopal] Church (1816)
Hymnal – 1801 (Allen)
Refrains/Call & Response
Am I a Soldier of the Cross? [LG 4.2, p. 82]
Soldier of the Cross - Congregational Hymn [white]
Reverend Richard Allen ( )
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7. Af-Am Professional Musicians
Frank Johnson ( )
Philadelphia Bandmaster Ex. Fireman’s Cotillion
Wm. Henry Lane “Boz’s Juba” (1825?-1852/3) Dancer – Five Points, NY
Elizabeth Greenfield (1824?-1876) “The Black Swan” Natchez – Phila – Buffalo - England

8. Music in Southern States
MUH Music in the United States
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Music in Southern States
Significant % of slaves (often majority)
Possibility of slave revolts (see Wikipedia) - Stono Rebellion (1739, SC) – 25 white, 35/50 black dead - Nat Turner (1831, VA) – 50+ white killed, 56 black executed - Amistad (1839) – 49 captives (39 survived), 4-6(?) killed
Mixed attitudes toward Christianization, etc.
General discouragement of African music-making
Few records of actual practice (no notation)
Isolated observations
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9. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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Runaway Slave Ads
NC Runaway Slave Advertisements
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10. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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Lewis Miller ( )
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