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| having verses, repetitive melody |
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| rhythms not in obvious places |
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many rhythms at the same time
*too irregular: not common in America |
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| color/sound quality of something |
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| "grace note", bending note, slightly out of tune, between 2 pitches |
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| syncopate, rough up sound to make sound more interesting |
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| invention of the phonograph (Edison) |
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| first commercially successful recording, 78 rpm (deeper grooves, slow rotations, better quality |
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early slang term for sex
(like rock'n'roll) |
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| repetitive rhythm pattern that isn't the regular pattern |
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first jazz recording EVER.
Original Dixieland Jazz Band (white group) |
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| First nationwide commercial networks |
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| First sound film "The Jazz Singer" |
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| popularized couple (ballroom) dancing |
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-most prominent ragtime composer
-African American
-"Maple Leaf Rag" |
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-first famous soloist
-trumpet
-improvisation
-mixed jazz and blues
-scat |
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-piano
-first famous jazz composer
-claims to have invented jazz |
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-"King"
-trumpet/band leader
-Creole Jazz Band |
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-piano
-imitated Louis Armstrong
-style: single note solos |
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composing and performing at the same time
-practical b/c no use of sheet music
-lengthened songs and decreased memorized material |
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-singer, actor
-funded development of first microphone
-changed recording and performing environment |
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-"King of Jazz"
-mixed jazz into dance music
-28 #1 records |
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| ragtime turned mainstream |
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-early "crooner"
-"My Blue Heaven" |
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| -stride piano (smoother, more modern, improvisation, than ragtime) |
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-Freer African storytelling style
-Blues singing style |
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-Blues sensibility with Tin Pan Alley style
-Urban blues |
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-guitar/singer
-"sold his soul to the devil to play better" |
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"Father of Modern Country Music"
-blue yodels |
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-gospel/ fiddle tunes
-country/hillbilly music |
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-country/hillbilly music
-spread by radio
-discoverd by guys looking for Blues artists in the south |
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| First three national broadcast stations |
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-black face, mistrel, vaudeville
-Jazz Singer
-theatrical style |
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1877 invented by Thomas Edison
-originally to record President talking |
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| Columbia, Victor Talking Machine Company |
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| First black jazz recording |
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| Joe Oliver's Creole Band 1923 |
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-blue notes
-story/image oriented, feeling not linear
-12 bar |
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-pop music popularized
-memorable melodies
-composer 200+ songs published |
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-marches
-one of the 1st to make commercially selling records
-fixed copyright laws |
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-independent publishers in Manhattan
-center for American pop
-simple, catchy songs (shift from 1800s) |
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-cultural environment
-French and Spanish influence (interracial marriage)
-slaves, free blacks, refugees, Caribbean, Italian refugees
-PORT CITY ($ tourism, entertainment) |
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-white musician majority
-more integration
-Bix Beiderbecke (trumpet) |
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trumpet, clarinet (melody)
piano/tuba/bass- pulse (boom)
banjo/guitar/drums- steady rhythm (chick) |
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-backbeat drum
-blues: hopeful undertones
-dance
-oral tradition, no music notation |
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instrumentation, chord progression
-folk music |
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instrumentation, chord progression
-folk music |
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