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Music 152
Final Exam
30
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Undergraduate 1
12/06/2010

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Bill Monroe
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Played Mandolin- acoustic, virtuoso player, "churchy" harmonies, fast solos, high "tenor" singer, made up of mandolin, banjo, guitar, fiddle, bass, choreography around a single microphone. "blue grass genre" (Bill Monroe and the bluegrass boys)
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Carter Family
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"keep on the sunny side" maybelle, sarah, a.p. carter
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Clawhammer
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banjo technique from Africa, learned by minstrel performers
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Dixie
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composed by Dan Emmett-minstrel banjo player
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Earl Scruggs
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banjo player- 3 finger style of playing-fast, inventive, loud, driving. "scruggs style" banjo playing
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Elevation of the banjo
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1880-1900 beautifully decorated instruments, method books, concert hall, performances, competitions. Sponsored by instrument companies
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Grand Ol' Opry
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"strictly clean and decent" started incorporating cowboy music out of nashville-became center of country music
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Hank Williams
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C&W star 1922-1953-deceptively simple-young alcoholic, died on new years eve on his way to a gig
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Hillbilly
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southern, illiterate, alcoholic, mindless, foolish, ill-fitting clothes etc.
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Jump Jim Crow
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minstrel character-segregation laws named from him.
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Nudie
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main taylor from nashville- made C&W stars cowboy suits
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Tommy Jarrell
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fiddle and banjo player- Mt. Airy, N.C.--highway worker, moonshiner, fiddle in smithsonian last
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***Analogy Used in Movie**
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tommy's sister talked about old sticky table clothes
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Fiddlin John Carson
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first country music recording-1923
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XERA
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broadcasted from mexico-pirate radio- selling junk. Jimmy rodgers was a musician played on there.
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AIM-American Inian Movement
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organization that became the reps of red-power movement
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Drum group
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(a drum) large northern plains style of music making, everyone has single drum stick around huge drum
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Ghost dance
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originated with the Payo people in death valley-diffused through north america-came from a vision by wokboka(shaman)-involved praying and discipline-if done right, ther lives would be perfect(buffalo, no more white man, invincible)
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Intertribal
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practice rituals performed by other tribes(ghost dance)
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Pine Ridge
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large lakota reservation in south dakota. lowest life expectancy of any community in north america.
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Powwow
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weekend long celebration about socializing- music and dance are essential
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Terraced Melodic contour
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melodic contour(shape of melody) starts high and then descends and then starts high again(not as high) then descends-Lakota songs have specific-AABCBC
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Tom Bee
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native american rock musician and record producer-XIT
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Vocable
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nonsense syllable
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Wokboka
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Payu medicine man who had vision for ghost dance
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Stephen Foster
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american composer(old susana) made a living writing for minstrel
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akonting
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African prototype of the banjo
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minstrel shows
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mid 19th century traveling shows that portrayed racist stereotype.
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wounded knee
Definition
site of massacre that ended the "indian wars" people gathered together to do ghost dance
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XIT
Definition
band stands for crossing of indian tribes-was tom Bee's Band
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