Chapter 6 - Advocacy
1) To investigate ways in which music has been used in the service of a cause.
2) To study representative songs of advocacy dealing with the plight of the farmer, labor disputes, and civil rights.
Terms and Concepts to Know protest songs
Fiddlin’ John Carson
“Folk Consciousness”
Bob Dylan
Highlander Folk School
Aunt Molly Jackson
Woody Guthrie
Pete Seeger
1.
Woody Guthrie personified the urban folk movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and
Bob Dylan’s career beginning in the 1960s reflects many of the changes between these two phases in folk music history. Be familiar with differences between these two performers.
2.
From where did the 1960s African American civil rights advocates draw their songs?
3.
What are some current issues that have resulted in protest music?
Chapter 8 – Blues
Terms and Concepts to Know blues subjects twelve-bar blues form blues singing styles bending
“bottleneck” style (slide)
“blues harp” jug bands and washboard bands folk, rural, or country blues classic blues blues and jazz instrumental breaks call-and-response boogie-woogie ostinato race records urban blues

1.
What issues of class are involved in our attempt to understand early blues musicians?
2. Candelaria/Kingman focus on which three characteristics of the blues?
3. What is the standard poetic structure of blues lyrics?
4. Which was the first instrument to become the standard accompaniment to the blues?
5.
What are the dates of the “classic” period of the blues?
6.
Who was Gertrude “Ma” Rainey?
7.
Who is Bessie Smith?
8.
What are some of the changes that have occurred in blues at the turn of the century?
Chapter 9 – Rock
1) To look at the origins of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s as an offshoot of rural southern traditions--namely, blues and country music.
2) To survey the diverse trends in rock music from the 1960s to the present.
Terms and Concepts to Know rhythm and blues rock ‘n’ roll boogie-woogie bass backbeat theremin contrasting soundscapes folk rock protest rock rockabilly radio country music cover version teen idols
British Invasion psychedelic rock acid rock hard rock heavy metal glam rock punk rock music video concept album
1. What is the difference between rock ‘n’ roll and rock?

2. How has the role of recordings and performance changed with rock in comparison to other styles?
3. Considering the vast array of musics known as rock, three characteristics that most share are:
4. What are some examples of altruism in rock that have occurred since the 1980s?
5. Who was Allan Freed?
6.
What was the “British Invasion”?
7.
How has music become arguably more of a visual than a sound experience?
Chapter 15. Ragtime and Precursors of Jazz
Terms and Concepts to Know ragtime song syncopation ragtime piano music ensemble ragtime ragtime rhythm ragtime form stride piano (“Harlem piano”) ragtime revival
African American bands parade music for funeral
The roots of ragtime are broad. Understand some of the possible sources of the syncopated rhythm that is characteristic of ragtime music and provide at least one example.
Study the two offshoots of ragtime: stride piano and novelty piano.
Chapter 16. Jazz
Terms and Concepts to Know
New Orleans jazz traditional jazz early recordings improvisation
12-bar blues form rhythm section jazz texture big band swing era
Latin influence
“cocktail combo” bop cool jazz modal jazz free jazz
Kansas City “jump” “third stream” jazz-rock fusion ground bass (ostinato) neo-bop super-bop

scat singing
“break”
Chicago
New York vibraphone hard bop repertory bands
Wynton Marsalis
Be familiar with the big bands of the swing era. Understand the contributions of Duke
Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.
What is “third stream” jazz? Whose label is this?
I Am a Union
Woman
Aunt Molly Jackson CD 1, Track 29 p. 78 p. 81 p. 85
Masters of War Bob Dylan
We Shall Overcome Freedom Singers
(SNCC)
Countin’ the Blues Ma Rainey
Prison Cell Blues Blind Lemon
Jefferson
CD 2, Track 1
CD 2, Track 2
CD 2, Track 10
CD 2, Track 11
Preachin’ Blues Robert Johnson CD 2, Track 12
Mr. Freddie Blues Meade Lux Lewis CD 2, Track 13
Good Rockin’
Tonight
Wynonie Harris CD 2, Track 15
Rock Around the
Clock
Bill Haley CD 2, Track 16 p. 116 p. 117 p. 119 p. 123 p. 129 p. 130 p. 252 p. 254
Maple Leaf Rag
If Dreams Come
True
Just a Little While to Stay Here
Hotter Than That
Scott Joplin
James P. Johnson
Eureka Brass Band
Ko-Ko
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Duke Ellington and
His Orchestra
KoKo Charlie Parker
Out of This World John Coltrane
Miles Davis Bitches Brew
CD 3, Track 17
CD 3, Track 18
CD 3, Track 20
CD 3, Track 22
CD 3, Track 23
CD 3, Track 24
CD 3, Track 25
CD 4, Track 1 p. 259 p. 265 p. 268 p. 272 p. 274 p. 276