1African-american folk musician "discovered" in the 1930s by the Lomaxes
Leadbelly
2Leadbelly song from 1944 later covered by Nirvana
Where did you Sleep Last Night
3Folk musician with a "common man" image, popular in the 1940s
Woody Guthrie
4Song written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie, now seen as a patriotic song but originally contained lyrics critiquing private property
This Land is Your Land
5Song by Woody Guthrie, recorded in 1940, about poverty and dust bowls, uses speech-song continuum
Talking Dust Bowl Blues
6Song written by Woody Guthrie in 1941 while working for the BPA during the New Deal, glorifying the Grand Coolee Dam, official song of Washington State
Roll on Columbia
7Folk musician starting in the late 1950s/1960s in Boston, a pacifist, has over 30 albums
Joan Baez
8Song by Joan Baez, released in 1960, features lots of vibrato on the voice
Silver Dagger
9Folk musician from the 1960s, had a "common man" image similar to Woody Guthrie, used songs as a vehicle for social consciousness
Bob Dylan
10Song by Bob Dylan about social change
The Times They Are a-Changing
11What happened in 1965 for folk-rock?
Bob Dylan's "Mr Tambourine Man" was covered by the Byrds and became the first commercial folk-rock hit, Dylan's song "Like a Rolling Stone" hit #2 on the charts, Dylan played at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric band
12Civil Rights activism and music
Communal singing practices were often used, especially songs drawn from African American spirituals, connections to urban folk revival, songs used to motivate, unify, defy, occupy space
13Songs used in the Civil Rights Movement
Freedom songs
14Freedom song that adapted from an African American concert spiritual
Oh Freedom
15Freedom song based off African American spiritual "I Shall Not be Moved", features lining out
We Shall Not be Moved
16Anthem of the Civil Rights Movement, emerges from European tunes but popularized by Pete Seeger
We Shall Overcome
17Song written by Bob Dylan, sung at the 1963 March on Washington and released in 1963 by Peter Paul and Mary
Blowin' In The Wind
18A Black NAACP recruiter/organizer killed on June 12, 1963, who became seen as a martyr for the Civil Rights Movement and March on Washington
Medgar Evers
19Song written by Bob Dylan as a response to Medgar Evers's murder, featuring triple meter, rhythmic play, different strophe lengths
Only a Pawn in Their Game
20Folk singer of the 1950s-60s, known as the "voice of the Civil Rights Movement" due to performances at rallies, protests, etc
Odetta
21Medley of 3 spirituals sung by Odetta, released in 1956
Spiritual Trilogy
22Song written by Pete Seeger criticizing the Vietnam War, originally censored on TV
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
23Factors contributing to Asian American pan-ethnicity (starting 1970)
More 2/3/4th gen Asian Americans in the US, Civil Rights movement, Black Power movement, Vietnam war, Asian American cultural movements of the late 1960s
24Song by a folk trio from 1970, containing lyrics about Asian Americanness, and jazz elements to show solidarity with African Americans
We Are the Children
25Song released in 1986 by group Hiroshima, with Japanese American influence and jazz elements
Taiko Song
26Asian American musician interested in making "quintessentially Asian American" music, with explicity revolutionary politics
Fred Ho
27Fred Ho's band formed in 1982 in New York
Fred Ho and the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble
28Song by Fred Ho and the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble, released in 1994, uses non-European languages and draws on Chinese and Asian folk music to create multicultural "jazz"
Kang Ding Love Song
29Where in west Africa does west African drum and dance come from?
Mande region
30West African drum that can play solos or accompaniment, usually at least 2 are used in a piece
Djembe
31West African drum used to play a repeated thematic pattern, usually 1-4 in each piece
Dundun
323 contexts of West Africna drumming in Mande region
rural celebrations, urban celebrations, ballet/percussion performances
33Purposes of West African ballet performances
Demonstrate the sophistication of African arts to the world, generate sense of national identity
34Performances changes in West African ballets (compared to participatory drumming)
Faster tempos, unison musical arrangements, choreographed group dances with bigger movements, dunduns used vertically so less players needed and faster tempos possible
351st wave of djembe drum and dance in the US (c. 1959)
"Les Ballets Africains" performances, mostly as entertainment, limited participation
36West African drumming piece by Ladji Camara
Saa
37West African drummer who performed as a soloist with "Les Ballets Africains", first professional musician to emigrate from Guinea to the USA
Ladji Camara
382nd wave of djembe drum and dance in the US (1970-1990)
Immigrants, mostly from Senegal, emulated national ballet practices, classes/performance in African-American communities, dance-centric
39Catalysts for African American participation in 2nd wave djembe drum and dance
Black Power movement, "Roots", rise of Black Nationalism, Pan-Africanism
40West African drumming piece reinterpreted by African Americans to be about slaves escaping the Transatlantic Slave Trade, featuring an increase in tempo/change in groove 5 minutes in
Djongdong/Wolosodong
41Causes of the 3rd wave djembe drum and dance in the US (1990-present)
Death of Guinean president Sekou Toure (1984), which eliminated state funding for musicians but allowed immigration
423rd-wave djembe performance by Mamady Keita, featuring call-and-response and polyrhythm
Tiriba
43Guinean drumming/dancing tourism camp effects
Guinean men and American women meet, get married and emigrate to US, offer dance classes there, then facilitate a camp in Guinea
44A cloth originally developed in China that is now associated with Africanness, White people wearing it might be accused of cultural appropriation
Wax cloth (batiq)
45Genre developed in the 1940s, pioneered by Bill Monroe with Appalachian influences, as well as blues and jazz influences, includes fast tempo and skillful playing
Bluegrass
46Known as the father of bluegrass
Bill Monroe
47Bluegrass song by Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, recorded in 1947
It's Mighty Dark to Travel
48Instrumental bluegrass song featuring Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, recorded in 1949
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
49Bluegrass developments in the late 1900s
Greater degree of instrumental mastery, expansion beyond Appalachian references, fusing bluegrass into other styles
50Bluegrass song by Tony Rice released in 1979
Old Train
51Song by Bela Fleck combining bluegrass and jazz
Up and Running
52Murder ballad by Clover Lynn about trans identity, released in 2023
Oh (field recording)
53Banjo player who started in 2019, went viral on tiktok as Hillbilly Gothic, plays with Clover Lynn and the Hellfires
Clover Lynn
54Founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, trained in European Opera singing, whose music focuses on the past to express Black cultural pride
Rhiannon Giddens
55Song by Rhiannon Giddens released in 2017, about an enslaved woman with a baby
At the Purchaser's Option
56Musician from Tennessee, had informal singing training in church, classifies her music as "organic moonshine roots music"
Valerie June
57Song by Valerie June, released in 2021, including multi-layered stacking of of the same melody line
Home Inside
58Song by Tim O'Brien recorded in 2014 as a response to the 2014 Elk River Spill, money from it supported AWARE (Artists Working in Alliance to Restore the Environment)
Brush my Teeth with Coca-Cola