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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