MUSI220 Chapters 1 and 2

How are African American ballads different from English-Celtic ballads?

What are the most common themes in native ballads?

A ballad from the Old World that has adopted elements of its new cultural surroundings

A songster is:

A ballad with a known author, based on actual occurances, features occupations like buffalo hunter

What is one example of a "jubilee" or celebration?

The sole purpose of Cries, Calls, and Hollers was to pass time while working in the fields?

What is short meter, as in "John Henry"

The African American ballad grew out of the need to prolong the work song

Which does not describe the musical style of field hollers, street cries, and calls.

Describe the rhythmic characteristics in "Music in Praise of a Yoruba Chief" .

What is the ballad meter of most English-Celtic ballads?

Which of these shows a crammed iambic foot?

The greatest African musical influence in America came from

Which of the following is an imported ballad?

A broadside is:

Variants of ballads are created when people forget the words, misunderstand language, or words are no longer in use.

Both "Sheep, Sheep" and "Yoruba Chief" use which scale as the base of their melodies?

Which of the following accurately describe(s) a ballad?

Which of the following is a native ballad?

Foot tapping on beat, clapping on backbeat, and call-and-response form describe which song?

What is not a significant contribution of the Fisk Jubilee Singers from Fisk University?

Which characteristic does not describe spirituals before the concert phase?

Which is not an example of gang labor after the Civil War?

Which is not important in the creation of the African American spiritual?

Where is the Yoruba cultural group from?

Who were the characters of African American ballads?

Which is NOT a reason why African traits have survived less in the U.S?

The functions of work songs were to communicate and to coordinate and lighten the work

Which is the most dominant musical characteristic in "Music in Praise of a Yoruba Chief"

Where in the Western Hemisphere has African Culture survived most strongly?

The drumming of the Yoruba culture significantly influences which of the following music?

Biblical lyrics of the spirituals were often metaphors for circumstances of slavery and hope for freedom

Which does not characterize the "concert" phase of the spiritual?

African American ballads were often improvised and contained an indefinite number of stanzas

Why is the "spiritual" called that?