Ars Americana: American Popular Arts: października 2018

Here are the lyrics for this week. There are a lot of them so it will be much easier to follow if you have them printed.... and it's too many pages for me to print for you : (

I haven't checked each and every link, if you find a dead link, then please report it.

Blues Structure

8 bar blues (Key to the Highway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K6DeIZCGdY

12 bar blues (random)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDkJC6aQhFw

16 bar blues (Watermelon man)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nzuNOhylU

A more formal explanation (don't worry if you don't understand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8rx9-_jWE

another one (again, don't worry if you don't understand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgADlsST1_M

Classic Blues

Crazy blues

Mamie Smith (1920

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ

Send me to the 'lectric chair

Bessie Smith (1927)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ6w5IlqhSk

Dirty Butter

Minnie Wallace (1929)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFhV2c601r4

Country Blues

Black snake moan

Blind Lemon Jefferson (1926)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8

Devil got my woman

Skip James (1931)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mmZFox4Rkg

Cross Road Blues

Robert Johnson (1936)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A

Shave 'em dry blues

Ma Rainey (1923)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_3F0wfk70

Hokum/Dirty Blues

Tight like that

Clara Smith (1929)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEleM86fPtE

Shave 'em dry

Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) (1935)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPCmIxv-3k

Jazz and Blues

Fine and mellow

Billie Holiday (1939)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHArH4K_P9w

New blow top blues

Dinah Washington (1951)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMmfI1M3HTc

Rhythm and Blues

Hound Dog

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (1952)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB0ZM_oXc4E

Shake Rattle and Roll

Big Joe Turner (1954)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wTQsAgktg

It Hurts Me Too

Elmore James (1957)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzr1Rfn-P4Y

Blue Eyed Blues (neo British Blues)

Key to the Highway

Derek and the Dominoes [Eric Clapton] (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa8RfHWj6YQ

sobota, 13 października 2018

Listening list for October 18, 2018

Lyrics are here.

Just three songs and the lyrics are not tremendously important for any of them, lots of instrumentals and film clips this week.

See y'all in class!

I'm just going to add one more link for this week.
"When I die, you better second line"
A New Orleans Jazz Funeral (for singer Juanita Brooks)

Lots of interesting things combining African and New World elements

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG6KH905cGU

I haven't checked each link, so please leave a comment if you find one that doesn't work.

Any, here is the stuff to get started...

Coon songs

The Whistling Coon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVYHSlEssYY

Nigger Loves his Possum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6F_S4LbdpE

If the Man in the Moon was a Coon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25vrq90d1eU

Minstrels and Blackface

General info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU5a24EpQvA

Sand Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6dXrm1YjBE

Comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_swtbIi2F0

Black and White Minstrel Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1RuOrWo_P0

Ragtime

Dueling Pianos (close to a jazz 'cutting session')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOi9K7yZ6QA

Maple Leaf Rag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc

The Entertainer

(piano version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPmruHc4S9Q

the Entertainer 1973 version (from the Sting)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQVMoGqWJHc

Solace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2NQYxpM-b4

Bethena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SskkUtimyLI

A Real Slow Drag from Treemonisha

(audio)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TmPa8UFxBo

(performance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgWU6JCZkg

See y'all in class!

piątek, 5 października 2018

Listening list for the African American Musical Tradition - first list (mostly 19th century)

Here are the lyrics for class October 11, 2018.

I haven't checked each and every link to make sure it still works, if you find a dead link, please leave a comment or send an email to my university email address.

Also feel free to leave comments on your impressions of the music.

This list is longer than usual as we won't be listening to entire songs for the most part.

Work Songs

Hoe Emma Hoe

first version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC3_ONtSEiU

second version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIoWRVE-H58

Prison work songs

Early in the morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk5RV_Q

Black Betty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiCEVl_9-MM

studio version - Leadbelly