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Early Folk Music - Coggle Diagram
Early Folk Music
Folk music from Africa
Topics of slavery
Different dialect
Communicated through rhythms
"Field holler"
Beginning of "call and response"
Complex rhythms
Blue notes: bending notes
Later became the blues
The ring shout
Banjo originated in Africa
British folk music
Blow the man down
Made up of 5 notes
Pentatonic scale
Oh Susanna
Ballad
Tells a story; passed down over years
Chantey
Songs with alternating solo and chorus
Used banjo
Spanish folk music
2 types of ballads
Regular ballads
Corrido
A true story; something that happened in history
Corrido del aguacate
Instruments
Accordion
Guitar
Percussion
Singers
Simple melodies
Allabado
Religious songs; hymn
Early american folk music
Derived from that of British, Spanish, and African
Ballads
Tell stories
Hymns
Religious songs
African Blues
Work songs
I've been working on the railroad
Traditional music