Here is a pre-class listening list. Please note that these are general videos meant to give you an idea about the content to come. Not all videos will necessarily appear in class and some videos not here will be shared in class.
nb. I mostly cut and pasted links, if any are dead please let me know (email/chat on teams) and I'll try to repair.
I should have lyrics for the class videos during the weekend.
AFRICAN ROOTS
Rhythmic complexity: Adowa Dance.
Similar to Breakdancing (Northern Nigeria, 1959).
Costumed religious dance (Zaouli - Ivory Coast).
Sexualized dancing (la ventilateur from Senegal).
Singing while farming (Ghana).
Post office employees from Ghana (starts at around 0.17).
ON TO THE AMERICA:
Field Hollers and Work Songs.
Hoe Emma Hoe
Prison work songs
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
If the Man in the Moon was a Coon
Minstrels and Blackface
Comedy (in theory)
Black and White Minstrel Show (late 1970s UK TV)
Cake walk
Stage performance (recreated from a 1936 movie, Cake Walk starts around 0.35)
Stage performance (from 1903)
Ragtime
Dueling Pianos (something like a cutting session).
The Entertainer (piano version)
The Entertainer 1973 version (from the Sting)
A Real Slow Drag from Treemonisha
Enoy! And See y'all in class!
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