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Title: American Popular Music

Description: MIHI

Total Flash Cards: 5

Created: 11/26/2011 18:51:39

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What is vernacular Music?
 Definition
music we sing and hear as naturally as we speak in our native tongue.
Term
Name two composers of Vernacular music in the 19th century
Definition
John Philip Sousa
Stephen Foster
Term
What did Stephen Foster compose?
 Definition
parlor songs or ballads
"beautiful dreamer"
"jeanie with the light brown hair"
Plantation songs
"camptown races"
"oh sousana"
Term
What is a Minstrel Show?
 Definition
compromised of bajo music, songs jokes skits
Featured songs written by white ass holes in their idea of a "black" style...idiots
Term
What are spirituals?
Definition
Religious folk songs created outside of an established church