AFROLATIN AND POPULAR MUSIC

• From the early 16th century to the late 19th century, slaves from the continent of Africa were brought to the Americas.
• Music became the slaves' expression amidst the hardships of work.
• Music was one way by which they could lighten the pain of being slaves, work with each other effectively, and communicate with each other creatively and secretly.
• The African slaves brought with them the BANSHAW in the 17th century, known today as BANJO.
• The African slaves brought with them the BANSHAW in the 17th century, known today as BANJO.
• What is this instrument?

  Banshaw or Banjo

  
• While in America, the slaves created drums and percussion instruments, which they used to accompany their singing.
• Negro Spirituals - These songs expressed the hardships of the slaves and their longing for freedom, for their safety, and for relief as they perform difficult tasks.
• Negro Spirituals - These songs also serve to give them hope that eventually life may improve for them.
• Negro Spiritual - Composers set these spirituals to choral versions and accompanied songs to preserve this genre of black music
• Ragtime - Black musicians during the 19th century would call syncopated rhythms as a way of “ragging” a tune.
• Ragtime - Black musicians during the 19th century would call syncopated rhythms as a way of “ragging” a tune.
• Syncopations were done on instruments as they were used; eventually, syncopation referred to the piano music that we call today as ragtime.
• Ragtime - Its basic character is its syncopated rhythm.
• Scott Joplin composed “Maple Leaf Rag” , which became one of the first ragtime hits.
• Who composed “Maple Leaf Rag”?

  Scott Jolpin
• One of the first ragtime hits:

  • Maple Leaf Rag
• The blues are considered one of the simplest musical genres that evolved from the music of black or African Americans.
• Blues require flexibility and a high level of improvisation in their performance.
• Blues - This require flexibility thus, singers would create their own trademark by making vocal scoops and slur.
• Jazz has been acknowledged as the most creative and complex genre of music America has produced.
• Jazz combines the traditional black sound of New Orleans and the characteristics of the blues.
• In jazz music, the performer becomes the composer as his or her musical spontaneity creates an entirely unique musical experience.
• Jazz music possesses the ability to be unique in its every performance.
• Dixieland - One of the early forms of jazz that started in the early 1920s in New Orleans.
• Dixieland - It is a combination of the traditions of blues, ragtime, and brass band.
• Dixieland music is usually instrumental in nature.
• two of the most prominent Dixieland performers:

  • Louis Armstrong
  • Jelly Roll Morton
• Jelly Roll Morton is a?

  Pianist
• Big Band - A jazz subgenre which saw its rise in the 1920s.
• Big bands specialized in swing music.
• Swing music - a highly danceable music type that became famous until the 1940s.
• Big band composed of 10 or more players with basically the same instrumentation as that of Dixieland.
• How many players are in Big Band?

  10 or more players
• A bebop group is relatively small, as compared to the big bands of the 1920s
• How many musicians are in a Bebop?

  4 to 5 Musicians
• Bebop - It is characterized by complex melodies and chord progressions.
• Unlike big band music, bebop is not suitable for dancing.
• Subgenres of Bebop:

  • Boogie-Woogie
  • Rock and Roll
  • Rock
  • Disco
  • Rap
  • Techno