https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg A glimpse into the present musical climate of the US en-us 2017-11-21 01:30:49 UTC 2017-11-21 02:16:50 UTC hello@padlet.com calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208936303  When discussing musical inheritance though culture we use the word "stream" and there are several different “streams” of musical influence that have determined much of the musical growth in the United States.]]> 2017-11-21 01:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208936303 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208936606 There are three intentions of music, and in music academia people use the words as follows

Popular Music:
Any music written with the intention of making money.
 
Folk Music: 
Any music written with cultural or religious observances.

Classical: 
Any music written for the very wealthy often through indentured servitude (its pretty interesting to think that Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart couldn't afford a piano or harpsichord they lived with royalty and had to play theirs.)
*these are not to be mistaken for genera*]]> 2017-11-21 01:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208936606 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208937612 Native American influences on music are very present today and can be observed in anything from the direct use of their’ powerfully evocative flute and drum musics to the use of elements like a steady downbeat and chanting vocal pattens (see “Little Room” by the White Stripes or any old vocal blues with stomping) ]]> 2017-11-21 01:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208937612 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208937951 When it comes to the way we refer to music and the instrumentation, the european colonists are largely responsible for these facets of music.
We often think of words like "chords" "keys" when we think of basic musical terms, and these ideas were entirely western.]]> 2017-11-21 01:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208937951 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208939359 Through slavery, we ended up gaining a lot of influence (especially in the south) from Africa. Many of the rhythms that we frequently associate with dancing and upbeat music that doesn't resemble the classical and baroque movements are african. as well as scales that were completely unused in western Europe, as the europeans believed that the use of certain notes in these scales (called the tritone) would invoke the devil. Also the banjo is one of the few non-european popular instruments, it hails from Africa.]]> 2017-11-21 01:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208939359 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208940982 In terms of rhythm and style, what we didn't get from Africa, we got directly from Central and South America, common rhythms are the tango, rhumba, samba, and bossanova.]]> 2017-11-21 02:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208940982 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208941277 As time moved forward and many different people were exposed to different styles of music a genera that was completely new and unlike any other heard around the world was born: Blues.

"Country Blues" is the oldest and was played almost exclusively by black musicians through Stomping, the German harmonica, the Spanish guitar, and singing in a slow chanting form associated often with the religious rites of Native Americans.

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues:
https://youtu.be/UNftrsCMiQs]]> 2017-11-21 02:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208941277 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208941951 After some time, the purists who had preserved their forms of music like the Celtic Irish musics, started to loosen up and blend in with blues, the initial intention was very religious, and thusly became the second born music of the United States, what was then called mountain music but now is better known by the moniker "Bluegrass"]]> 2017-11-21 02:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208941951 calebfmorelli https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208942424 Jazz was a direct clash of all styles that were present in the country at the time. When the Jim Crow laws passed (The jim crow laws being named for a song “Jumpin’ Jim Crow” used in minstrel shows) the very accomplished classical musicians who were half black in New Orleans (known as the Creole) were forced out of their neighborhoods and around an area called Congo Square, where many latin americans and blues musicians lived. Their’ rhythms that were quite odd and felt difficult to understand for europeans and were mixed with classical and blues scales and ultimately formed jazz.]]> 2017-11-21 02:14:19 UTC https://padlet.com/calebfmorelli/6we6cauppfkg/wish/208942424