• The very first Negro spirituals were musical pieces inspired by traditional African sounds, rhythm and beats. Some of these traditional sounds were called “shouts” which were accompanied with dancing, hand clapping and foot tapping. • Ring Shouts The Story of American Gospel Music
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• The very first Negro spirituals were musical pieces inspired by traditional African sounds, rhythm and beats. Some of these traditional sounds were called “shouts” which were accompanied with dancing, hand clapping and foot tapping.
• Ring Shouts
The Story of American Gospel Music
• The basic elements of shout rings are:– Calls– Cries– Hollers– Moans and groans– Call-and-response– Various rhythmic
aspects
The Story of American Gospel Music
• The Second Great Awakening was a Christian revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
• It stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society.
Second Great Awakening, 1820s – 1870s
• In the early nineteenth century, African Americans were involved in the “Second Awakening”. They met in camp meetings and sang without any hymnbook.
• The Second Great Awakening was a Christian revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
• It stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society.
Second Great Awakening, 1820s – 1870s
• As they had done in the Motherland, the early African slaves came together as a community to share stories of their daily lives, to worship God, and to pay homage to their ancestors through music and dancing.
• The gatherings where the slaves joined together to create this new music appeared to be religious in nature and did possess some elements of Christianity.
Ring Shouts
• To appeal to God, call out to the ancestors, and talk with each other, the slaves continued the sacred African circle dance known as the "ring shout."
• The dance combines singing with rhythmic shuffle dancing performed in a circle and executed in a counterclockwise movement.
• As traditional negro spirituals continued to be sung, new Gospel songs were created.
• The lyrics of these new songs dealt with praising the Lord, with personal improvement and with brotherly community life.
• Many of them were inspired by social problems: segregation, lack of love, relationships, social issues etc...gateway to the Blues
• Ragtime is an African American original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm.
• It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published as popular sheet music for piano
• Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMA
• The Blues were born in the North Mississippi Delta following the Civil War. Influenced by African roots, field hollers, ballads, church music and rhythmic dance tunes called jump-ups evolved into a music for a singer who would engage in call-and-response with his guitar. He would sing a line, and the guitar would answer.
• Rock music has experienced a great deal of musical growth and maturity since its creation. It evolved from African American and European musical traditions as they were formed within the United States during the 40s and 50s.
The Birth of American Rock-n-Roll
Musical Roots of the Blues• Earliest roots of blues lie in
African, Middle East, and European cultures
• Earliest American blues songs were sung by griots (oral poets)
The Roots of American Rock-n-Roll
• Rhythmic flow, varied vocal tones, and duple (double) rhythms
• American blues is a transplant version of griot songs (personal expression)
• African music was mixed with European traditional music
The Birth of American Rock-n-Roll
Country blues is the earliest known blues inAmerican. Its origins are from the U.S.southern regions.• Mississippi Delta (called delta blues) had a direct
influence on rock music• Delta blues music is highly emotional, rough,
expressive, and rhythmic (Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, and Son House)
• Traditional blues style was influenced by West African call-and-response methods
The Birth of American Rock-n-Roll
• Son House• http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=8jN5vqEyV7g
Country Blues cont.• Plantations in
Mississippi built the foundation of the music
• Delta blues express desire of liquor, women, sex, and love
• It is poly-rhythmic (African tradition)
The Birth of American Rock-n-Roll
Classical Blues• Twelve bar form and
usually a female lead vocalist
• Ma Rainey (Mother of the Blues) and Bessie Smith
• Moans, dramatic pauses, and melody slides
Bessie Smith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MzU8xM99Uo&feature=related
• Seventeenth – nineteenth centuries, European settled in the south and southwest part of the United States
• Country music had simple rhythms, hymns, and folk melodies
• Africans traditions all influenced this musical style with the creation of the banjo
The Country Roots of Rock Music
• Maddox Brothers and Rose• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=REgjg9xD-lo• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Hillbilly Music – fiddle, guitar, barn dance, with African American boogie woogie and American white country music are the major influence of this musical style. (Jerry Lee Lewis)
• Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry (born October 18, 1926) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music.
• He refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with lyrics focusing on teen life and consumerism and utilizing guitar solos and showmanship that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music.
• Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources.
• Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums.
Rock Music, 1970s – 1990s
• Musically, rock has centered around the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums.
Rock Music, 1970s
• Queen• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=xdCrZfTkG1c&feature=fvwrel
• Aerosmith• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=bKttENbsoyk&feature=related
• Hard rock was more often derived from blues-rock and was played louder and with more intensity.
It often emphasized the electric guitar, both as a rhythm instrument using simple repetitive riffs and as a solo lead instrument, and was more likely to be used with distortion and other effects.