Vernacular Tradition Review

A performance style in the vernacular tradition in which leader leads with a call and a group responds

Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery

Religious dance of African American slaves, performed with hand clapping and a shuffle step to spirituals.

Jubilees, plantation melodies, slave hymns, and sorrow songs

Thomas Dorsey

A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

a story originating in popular culture, typically passed on by word of mouth.

The group that introduced the spiritual to the northern states and Europe

Refers to the church songs, blues, ballads, sermons, stories, that are part of the oral tradition of black expression. 

Literature that passes by word of mouth from one generation to the next.

songs that are created by nonprofessional musicians and passed along from one generation to the next orally

type of folk song used during work to regulate physical activity or engage worker's attention

A musical style with roots in the black oral tradition; blends elements of folk music, spirituals, and hymns

W.C. Handy

Symbols in African American spirituals for slave masters and slavery

Symbols in African American spirituals for freedom, Canada, or the North

A genre of African American music that often expresses frustration, sadness, or longing

A regional variety of a language distinguished by spelling and pronunciation.

the performance of religious music from notation in which the shape of a note indicates its place in the scale;

Symbol in African American spirituals for enslaved people