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History of Popular Music Vocabulary: The Blues and Racism
Vocab on the blues and racism
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Music
11th Grade
09/12/2013

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Originating in and characteristics of a particular region or country
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indigenous
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A West African traveling minstral that passes news and music between villages through song
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griot
Term
Melancholic music of black american folk origin, originating in the South
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Blues
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slapping the hands legs, and body to produce complex, rapid rhytms that originate back to the slave days
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Patting Juba
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spiritual, rhythmic music in teh Black, southern church
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Gospel
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train that went through New orleans, Louisiana, and ended in Chicago used in the Great Migration
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Illinois Central Railraod
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relocation of more than 6 million Blacks from rural South to cities in the North such as New York and Chicago
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The Great Migration
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Extremely rich and fertile piece of land in Mississippi between the Mississippi and Yazoo river; considered "the most southern region in the world" (in culture sense)
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Mississippi Delta
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bar in rural south for music, alcohol, and gambling with a focus on dancing and socializing
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Juke Joint
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the white equivelant to a juke joint, but with an empasis on drinking and dancing
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Honky-Tonk
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a term used to differenciate between white and black music (this term is a reference used to descripe black music)
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Race Records
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had a monopoly on Blues Music in Chicago
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Chess Records
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invented the first solid body electric guitar
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Leo Fender
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first disc jockey and concert producer of rock and roll; coined the term "rock-and-roll"
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Alan Freed
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An announcer of a radio show of popular recorded music on disks
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disk jockey
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what Chuck Berry called his audience
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Salt and Pepper
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Law case that said that segregation is legal as long as they're equal
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Plessy v Ferguson
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Law case that overturned Plessy v Ferguson in 1954
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Brown v The Board of Education
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mainstream white artists who did covers of Black songs
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Cover singers
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considered the capital of Black America and Blues; in Memphis, Tennessee
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Beale Street
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orginization founded in 1909, oldest and largest known civil rights movement
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
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special tickets for white spectators to buy to Black music concerts
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White spectator tickets
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