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Which of the following was a well-known composer of plantation songs? endstream Minstrelsy swept the world in the 1830s and 1840s much the same way that rock and roll did more than a hundred years later. endobj Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. What is the musical term for the quality of sound, sometimes called "tone color"? He is the earliest known person to have played the banjo on stage. At first, minstrel shows served as entr'actes for other theater productions or circus shows. Eric Lott: Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster? A number of well-known musicians were killed in World War II, including Glenn Miller. Which of the following is true about black southern gospel music? Which songwriting team composed the musical Oklahoma!, which opened in 1943? It accompanies dances featuring sexual role-playing and was originally suppressed by Cuban authorities. Which White banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels? Rather, it's more and more standardized, it's more and more routinized. The classic blues included artists like Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, and Ethel Waters. On his return to England, he began to incorporate his observations into skits, sketches, and songs. More recently, musicians such as Michael Miles, and in particular Rhiannon Giddens, have achieved huge followings by reviving the minstrel style with all its original feeling. WebBlues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Which is the best definition of "strophe? The new Virginia Minstrels performed in Dublin at the Theatre Royal from 24 April to 7 May during entr'actes, then continued for a series of entr'actes and complete minstrel shows in Cork, Belfast, then Glasgow by the end of May. The influence of minstrelsy is still felt keenly by clawhammer players and in the lyrics and arrangements of classic old time tunes. Fath Ruffins: And it was also the ability to laugh at them and feel superior to them because that was considered negative. Emmett, D[aniel] D[ecatur]. Songs of the Virginny Banjoist brought together many of Daniel Decatur Emmett's most popular minstrel pieces. Our publication program covers a wide range of disciplines including psychology, philosophy, Black studies, women's studies, cultural studies, music, immigration, and more. His act featured two of the earliest Ethiopian songs to enjoy widespread popularity, "Long Tail Blue" and "Coal Black Rose.". Stuart had Sweeney attached to his staff, which became one of Stuart's best-known personal quirks. CK 48607. White actor born into a poor family in New York's Seventh Ward. hbspt.cta._relativeUrls=true;hbspt.cta.load(1901150,'f4f28fb7-6281-4538-924c-bc79ec680474',{"useNewLoader":"true","region":"na1"}); The head and strings of a period minstrel banjo are made from animal hide and processed intestines respectively. 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Dan Emmett Which of the Which 1927 musical featured music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and was a new kind of musical show of unprecedented seriousness and depth? Between 1895 and 1915, Joplin composed many of the classics of the ragtime repertoire and helped popularize the style through his piano arrangements, published as sheet music. The unique sound and conventions of minstrel banjo remain an attractive option for all players seeking to enrich their experience of the instrument. It was even -- foreign. It doesn't just affect them. That would provide more melodic and harmonic expression, as the quote suggests. He embraced both genteel traditions and less highly regarded but popular traditions such as minstrelsy. Well, religious songs drop out because everybody at the camp isn't necessarily of one religion. For which of the following was Mario Bauza known? Susanna', Camptown Races', and Swannee River' are all among them. The two toured, performing in early October at the Theatre Royal in Birmingham and later that month in a circus at Leicester. The centrality of it as a cultural institution makes it an inescapable cultural condition for black performers moving into public. As a rule, minstrel banjos are also much bigger than their contemporary counterparts. Which of the following became the conductor of the US Marine Band? If they didn't like the song, they would cut it off. Which of the following is generally true about Tin Pan Alley songs? What legacy did blackface minstrelsy create for American culture today? If the word cannot be divided, write *DND* for do not divide. Then when a white boy did it, John Fogerty in Creedence Clearwater, he sang, "I hoid it through the grapevine," almost as if he was going to exaggerate the black characteristics. On the one hand, [there's] the desire to take a kind of racial ridicule to the stage and to make fun, indulge in sport at the expense of black people and made a lot of money at the same time. Ken Emerson: Who was the most influential songwriter of American popular song during the nineteenth century? It's kind of like in the 1950s if you were a middle class guy and you saw Elvis, you knew that Elvis was shaking his hips in ways that weren't typically countenanced for white middle class boys, and that's why all the citizens' councils in the South called Elvis "nigger music" and were terribly afraid that Elvis, white as he was, being ambiguously raced just by being working-class, was going to corrupt the youth of America. This is where the striking finger glides' across multiple strings, sounding them out individually in quick succession. He embraced both genteel traditions and less highly regarded but popular traditions such as minstrelsy. Nonetheless, the musical form represents America's first indigenous musical theater. Which of the following is true about FM radio? There was a release. Was blackface minstrelsy only about caricaturing blacks? One of the best-known and most successful composers of plantation songs; the first successful black songwriter. He became the sniveling black man who was really a coward and was ignorant and somewhat comical in his connection to the slave masters. Which of the following became the conductor of the U.S. Marine Band? And perhaps quite rightly they are. It's a kind of love and loathing that's happening simultaneously. It's not just on one side or the other. That's when you get the semi-circle with the traditional minstrel set-up, with these two characters being outrageous, who fidgeted all the time, who were saying the most inane things that could possibly be said. a. It was popularized in the United States by songs like "The Girl from Ipanema.". Obviously, from Elvis Presley to Beck that has been one of the primary impulses behind rock and roll. Which record format released in 1949 by RCA Victor Corporation allowed a listener to load a stack of singles? Individually, however, they also carry specific meanings which offer tantalizing insights into the development of the banjo throughout the ages. WebWhich White banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels Daniel Emmett Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster? A rhetoric that itself is double in the sense that they'll do anything not to be considered slaves. In 1996 I know members of theYale Glee Clubdecided not to sing "My Old Kentucky Home" because they considered it to be racially derisive. Blacks were presumed to be this way, the stereotype was this and therefore the media had to reflect it in that way. Led by white banjo virtuoso Dan Emmett (18151904); created a lengthy stage performance that featured a standard group of performers a) Mr. Which of the following is true of Bing Crosby's recording of "How Deep Is the Ocean"? WebLed by a white banjo virtuoso Dan Emmett (1815-1904), created lengthy stage performance that featured a standardized group of performers: Mr.Interlocutor- lead Sam Sweeney died, possibly of smallpox, on January 13, 1864, and was buried in Graham Cemetery, Orange, Virginia.[13]. Huckleberry Finnis, I think -- this is hotly debated now -- but it's ambiguous to this day in ways that I think still one could make a fairly defensible argument for withholding [it] from school students until a certain age, 13 and 14, when they're able to deal with certain of the racial implications. The "father of American minstrelsy" was Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice, who, between 1828 and 1831, developed a song-and-dance routine in which he impersonated an old, crippled black slave, dubbed Jim Crow. They say, "We'rewage slaves. "[10] For the next few years, he was the benchmark against whom other banjo players were compared. At this time, Dick Pelham met up with Sweeney and Brower, and the trio decided to reform the Virginia Minstrels with Sweeney as banjoist. He supposedly added the fifth string because he was "allegedly unhappy with the limited rhythm and melodic variation of the four-string banjos popularly in use. 1855. He embraced both genteel traditions Copyright 2010 Center for American Music. That same month, he performed alongside James Sanford at the Broadway Circus in New York with a blackface burlesque of The Dying Moor's Defence of His Flag called "Novel Duetts, Songs, &c". It emerged in the Mississippi Delta and was first recorded in the 1920s. At one and the same moment, though, you have a real interest, cross-racial interest in what it feels like to be a black person. It's part of black history and it's part of American history and you can't change history. Which of the following is true about Gene Autry's musical style? Sean Wilentz: And Jacksonian Democrats, common people, wanted to cast it in their own image. Middle-class culture is one that has worshipped the mind and has largely tried to divorce the body from the expression of what they are. The London Mathews; Containing an Account of This Celebrated Comedian's Trip to America. An ex-minstrel show performer from a middle-class background, Bland wrote some seven hundred songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (published in 1878, for a long time the official state song of Virginia) and "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" (published in 1879). And in many ways it's a song that enabled us to begin to undo racial bigotry and prejudices that exist in this country. Papers of Daniel Decatur Emmett and the Ankeney Family, 1850-1881. In July 1843, Sweeney played during entr'actes at the Adelphi Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Minstrel troupes toured the United States constantly from the 1840s until the 1870s, helping create an embryonic national popular culture. Frets would not become widespread on the 5-string banjo until 1878, introduced by Henry C. Dobson and then formally manufactured by the Buckbee Company. "The Journal of American Folklore", 85(335). It was necessary for them -- it was necessary for them to do that to be on stage. Ken Emerson: And that may just be the condition of being white in America, but I think that there's a kind of evasion of the full implications of Foster. And he had the idea of dressing in shabby attire, which he may or may not have borrowed from an African American that he met in the streets of Louisville, and going on stage, and it was the kind of entr'acte between parts of a play, he got on stage and did this extraordinary andextravagant danceto this tune called "Jim Crow." Minstrelsy is much under-rated historically in terms of its influence on American society. Which film, released in 1927, became the first to exploit sound successfully? Stephen Foster, when he heard a minstrel show, would have heard something that sounded altogether different from what his sisters or other polite society were playing at home. Eric Lott: Deane Root: He was a cornet player and leader of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Crosby constantly varies his dynamics within individual phrases. It's one of the things that defines your stance as a black public performer; there's no easy way around it. document.documentElement.className += 'js'; Think for instance of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," when Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight and the Pips sang the original versions of the song. The publisher of Songs On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Joel Sweeney's younger brothers, Sampson ("Sam") and Richard ("Dick"), and his sister Missouri were also talented banjo and fiddle players. But I think that the rousing nature of the event -- I mean, this is a moment in theater history when it was typical and more or less sanctioned for men to rush the stage. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Certainly it had a [lasting] effect on the entertainment industry in the sense that most producers in Hollywood, most producers on the radio demanded that black people speak the same way they spoke during the 1800s, even when we get to the 20th century and we get to film, we get to radio. Which film released in 1927 became the first to exploit sound successfully? Perhaps for that reason alone, it has never been allowed to disappear entirely. Which White actor invented the minstrel character Jim Crow?. From the Tracy W. McGregor Library of American History. Which singing style emerged soon after the invention of the electronic microphone? Which honky-tonk artist recorded "The Wild Side of Life?". One of the most controversial eras of American performance history was launched. The basic features of the blues form include which of the following? Which of the following is true about the country blues? In colonial America the banjo was known as an instrument of "the lower classes,"[8] but by 1841, Sweeney was remaking the banjo into an instrument for the middle class. They would not become common until well into the 1900s. [Consider] the stereotype of Uncle Tom, for instance, the black man who is without backbone and who is really the white man's black man. Stephen Foster's music today is deeply embarrassing for two reasons. So that image came totally from minstrelsy, and if we could go down the line and point out other ways in which those images pervaded the society at that time, those were the images, that was the sense of what black people were like. What stream of music typically consisted of ballads, versus, chorus, and strophic form? But behind the myth of the games creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession and corporate double-dealing. He toured through Virginia in "Outlandish claims have been made about Sweeney, from his being the "inventor" of the banjo to his being the first white man to play the banjo. Minstrelsy had clanging banjoes, it had clanking bones. In 1831 there's the Nat Turner rebellion. a. Thomas Dartmouth Rice b. George Washington Dixon c. Daniel Emmett d. Edgar Meyer e. Alison Kraus Which of the It offered better sound quality than AM radio. % I think it becomes much clearer when one looks at black minstrelsy again because when black minstrels started to take to the stage, they were advertised as the real thing. In fact, one group was called "The Real Nigs." And that needs always to be forefront in any consideration of this. An enormous amount of American musical history and tradition is tied up with the banjo in this, its earliest standardized form. Virginia Minstrels: A minstrel troupe led by the Performers blackened their faces with cork and, by distorting elements of African-American culture, created stereotypes such as the urban dandy "Zip Coon" and the guileless plantation slave "Jim Crow.". As the United States expanded westward and new towns sprung up across the continent, traveling minstrel troupes would follow in their wake, providing entertainment to the settlers. Who proposes the murder of Antony? Although vaudeville replaced minstrel shows as the most popular form of professional musical theater at the turn of the twentieth century, minstrelsy retained a presence in amateur theatricals until the 1950s. It was exaggerated. And they felt that they had a right to have someone do the dance again if they particularly liked it or the song. The first thing to note about minstrel banjos is that they tended to be wood-heavy constructions, from the tuning pegs down to the tailpiece. As a blackface performer, he introduced the "Jim Crow" character. At summer camps, there was lots of singing around the campfire. I think there are still the lenses white people put on when they look at black Americans, and it's sad but it's kind of desperately indicative of the way in which this country still hasn't surmounted the kinds of feelings that gave rise to minstrelsy in the first place. Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues?". Classically trained guitarists seeking to impart greater respectability on the instrument (considered to be low-brow by the upper echelons of society) imported their own finger picking style. He is known for popularizing the playing of the banjo and has often been credited with advancing the physical development of the modern five-string banjo. WebLed by white banjo virtuoso Dan Emmettb. And of course that was the minstrelsy, that's what was happening and the sort of the exaggerated caricatured stereotypical black dialect of minstrel songs in the 1830s and 1840s. By 1839, Sweeney was performing in various blackface venues in New York. Which white actor invented the minstrel character "Jim Crow?". How did class frictions relate to blackface minstrelsy? Much more so than today, audiences controlled what went on the stage. That's precisely when issues around slavery and abolition begin to heat up -- not at the center of American politics but certainly as its margins and increasingly moving towards the center. Joel Sweeney, a native of Appomattox, Virginia, popularized the African-inspired banjo, although Emmett favored the instrument in his compositions. African American composer and pianist; the best-known composer of ragtime music. Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster? They celebrated the exploits of black heroes and "bad men.". The differences were much more in the style of the performance itself and in the kinds of words that were being put to it. Sam Sweeney's signature song, possibly penned by Stuart himself, was "Jine the Cavalry." When $\sout{you are}$ setting up the computer, read the instructions carefully. Web1. The minstrel show is also the To this day Stephen Foster's music touches on what unites us as Americans and also on what divides us. It becomes the first kind of a national theater or national entertainment that people began to see outside of their local setting. // cutting the mustard It was filled with things that a middle-class culture considered beneath it and amusical. For the adverb clause, draw a line through a word or words to produce an elliptical clause. The act itself gradually grew in complexity, developing a unique three part structure and cast of recognizable characters. The 1870s saw a steep decline in the minstrel style of play. This photograph was taken at a minstrel show at the Elk's Lodge in Charlottesville, held on February 2 and 3, 1925. They loved it. A few years later he joined a circus and traveled throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Web1769, White banjo players performed in blackface 1843, First documented minstrel show by Dan Emmett & Virginia Minstrels 1840s-1850s, Minstrel Craze; Banjo becomes urban instrument (the minstrel show popularized the banjo; it was a long time before the banjo could be regarded separately from the racist content of the minstrel show) The mask of blackface enabled you to have voice and to speak without fear of repression. Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917? He first performed throughout central Virginia for county court sessions. **(a)** List two causes for the split in the Democratic party in the 1860 election, **(b)** List two effects of the election. Where was the Minstrel Show most popular? Webwordlist = ['! The banjo as described above did not assume its familiar, 5-string form until at least the 1820s. Songs of the Virginny Banjoist. Now, how that impacted upon society itself was that they embraced it. WebJust as Sweeney began introducing the banjo to England, a group of musicians in New York City was creating the minstrel show as a full-scale entertainment. Which of the following is true about the tango? WebPop Goes the Weasel was the vehicle for many virtuoso and comic fiddlers to display their prowess on the instrument. Which of the following became the first nationwide commercial radio network in 1926? And blackface minstrelsy, in a very interesting way, moves back and forth over these lines. WebWhich White banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels? How can we understand our past, which created what we are today, without looking this in the eye -- and hearing it in the ear? Monopoly is Americas favorite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. Eric Lott: [Winchester, VA: 1863]. Joel Walker Sweeney (1810 October 29, 1860), also known as Joe Sweeney, was an American musician and early blackface minstrel performer. Read about Charlotte Susanna Foster, Jane McDowell Foster,Stephen Collins Foster andWilliam Barclay Foster. African Americans come to be excluded from certain aspects of American society. African Americans live both enslaved and free within that society, but everybody else is living in the society, too. Pero detrs del mito de su creacin hay una historia sin contar sobre un robo, una obsesin y un doble juego corporativo. When the Virginia Minstrels came along what they did was to develop other characters, and the characters they developed were much more over the edge than the character Rice had portrayed. These claims are part of an effort, beginning in the nineteenth century, to divorce the banjo from its African American origins. Today's clawhammer banjo is descended directly from stroke style, with the original style considered to be more complex than our modern version. ' Additionally, the bridges on minstrel banjos tend to be positioned in the center of the head, or even higher, closer to the neck. a. "[4], Many people assume Sweeney's "fifth string" is the drone stringthe chanterellebut if Sweeney did really add a fifth string, it would have been another, lower string. Should we change Foster's songs to remove their racist aspects, or not perform them? In the same way that Elvis Presley electrified the world, so did Daddy Rice when he did "Jump Jim Crow" on the London stage. It presented the black character as being stupid, as being comical, as being basically a frivolous character. Grand Ethiopian Concert! Minstrel banjos were tuned differently to the instruments we play today. Monopoly es el juego de mesa favorito de Estados Unidos, una carta de amor al capitalismo desenfrenado y a nuestra sociedad de libre mercado. var googletag = googletag || {}; The most offensive of the lyrics used words like "nigger" which would have been common in the 1840s or 1850s [but] the lyrics that I was taught didn't have that in them. The same thing happens at Mardi Gras. First of all, because of the obvious racial epithets and caricatures and stereotypes that he uses, which were typical of the time and unfortunately are still typical of our time today. A minstrel troupe led by the white banjo virtuoso Dan Emmett; their show introduced more lengthy performances featuring a standardized group of performers. Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. 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