Introduction to Music Outline for Chapters 3 and 4: Folk Music Traditions and Religious Music I. Traditional Folk: Anglo-Saxon culture of northeastern US combined with British influenced hymns and songs A. Preservation 1. Oral tradition passed on from generation to generation 2. Folklorists collected, transcribed and published traditional folk songs B. Types 1. Narrative Ballads 2. Lyric Songs 3. Work Songs 4. Children’s Songs 5. Protest Songs 6. Rally Songs 7. Dance Music C. Urban Folk Revival 1. Began in 1958 (Kingston Trio) and continued into the 60s 2. Change: Use of electric guitar by Bob Dylan in 1965 (folk rock) 3. Artists: Arlo Guthrie, Peter Paul and Mary, Joan Baez II. White Culture Religious Music A. Roots 1. English Pilgrim and Puritan immigrants: psalm singing B. Performance Practices 2. Notated materials: psalters (hymnbook of psalms) a. Bay Psalm Book (1640): first hymnbook, no notation 3. Non notated practices a. Lining out C. Singing Schools: development of shape note singing 1. The Southern Harmony 2. The Sacred Harp D. White Gospel Music: 4 gospels of the Bible 1. Rural (early 19th century) a. Performance venues: church, Sunday school, revivals, campground meetings 2. Urban (late 19th century) a. Performance venues: churches, revivals, tabernacles b. Influential Figures 1. Moody and Sankey 2. Graham and Shea E. Contemporary Christian: Amy Grant, Steven Curtis Chapman III. Black Culture Music A. Religious 1. Spiritual a. Sources 1. Slaves2. Adaptations of camp meeting hymns or folksongs of white culture 2. Black Gospel: early 20th century 1. Influential figures a. Thomas A. Dorsey b.Mahalia Jackson c. Aretha Franklin B. Secular 1. Blues: most influential on other black music: jazz, R&B, etc. a. Influential figures 1. Muddy Waters 2. Howlin’ Wolf b. Twelve bar blues form; I, IV, V, I 2. Urban Blues: B.B. King with his guitar