piątek, 28 lutego 2020

The African American Musical Tradition (AAM) First listening list (for class on March 05, 2020)

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 (and probably won't get through everything on this list (which will be moved to the next lesson).

The Notes for the first lesson and the lyrics for songs played should be posted by Monday evening (19.00).

African Roots
Rhythmic complexity: Adowa Dance

Exhuberant dancing

Costumed religious dance (Zaouli)

Not sure exactly what this is (very weird… from Senegal)

Sexualized dancing (la ventilateur)

Singing while farming (Ghana)

Post office employees from Ghana (starts at around 0.17)

ON TO THE US:

Work Songs

Field Hollers

Hoe Emma Hoe
first version

second version

Prison work songs

Early in the morning

Black Betty

studio version - Leadbelly

British rock version – Ram Jam


Spirituals

Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Fisk Jubilee Singers) -1909

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Paul Robeson)

Deep River (Marion Anderson)

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Odetta)

Oh Freedom (Princely Players)


Coon songs

The Whistling Coon

Nigger Loves his Possum

If the Man in the Moon was a Coon


Minstrels and Blackface

General info:

Sand Dance

Comedy (in theory)

Black and White Minstrel Show (late 1970s UK TV)

Cake walk

Historical footage

Stage performance

Stage performance (recreated from a 1936 movie, Cake Walk starts around 0.35)

Ragtime

Dueling Pianos (something like a cutting session)

Maple Leaf Rag

The Entertainer
(piano version)

the Entertainer 1973 version (from the Sting)

Solace

Bethena

A Real Slow Drag from Treemonisha

(audio)

(performance)
mojo bag

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