Pairs

Continuity of connection

cultural and social reasons why races are different.

North American Slave Trade timeline

1619-1869.

Music of slave culture

rapping on a drum, string instruments, acapella.

Work Song

Old Alabama

Song leader would be

male, would have 1000's of snippits of verse and would string them together to make a story.

Floating pool of verse

no one owned the verses, just snippits that would come together.

Recording of Old Alabama

1947

Recorder of Old Alabama

Alan Lomax

Old Alabama you are listening to

recording of prison chain going

Syncropation

rythmic complexity

Western europe rythm

harmony, chord and organization.

West Africa Rythm

syncropation, taking the pulse and shifting the emphasis.

Riffs

small musical idea that is repeated over and over again.

Riffs were brought in by

west africa

Motives

always changing in and out, slowing then faster

African retentions in the work song

call and response

Audience is more important in

West Africa call and response

Western Europe call and response

hierarchichal.

The style in lyrics of Old Alabama

a a b a a b a a b a a a b a a a b

West Africa

4 3 3