Playlist: Introduction to World Music: North America by Jenna Makowski, Alexander Street Press
The goal of these playlists is to introduce students to the diversity of music in North America through genres that developed out of distinct social and historical settings and which continue to influence and shape the American music landscape today. Common themes include identity, social unrest and protest, equality and inequality, and revivalism. Students should analyze the characteristics of one genre in relation to its parent or child genres and to understand how music can act as a sounding board for larger conversations about society, culture, economics and politics.
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The tracks in this playlist highlight the integration of music and dance into all aspects of Navajo daily life, ritual, history and worldview. Content includes fieldwork recorded by ethnomusicologists during the 1930s and 1940s as well as contemporary examples for a comparative look at the past and the present. Artists and musicians include Dan Jim "D.J." Nez and R. Carlos Nakai.
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27 Dec 2013
This playlist focuses on the early days of American folk, when music was used to spread messages of solidarity and social protest during the early days of the Labor Movement. Selections include compositions by Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and have been chosen to demonstrate the lines of connection between the social unrest and protest of the 1920s and 1930s and the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war protests of the 1950s and 1960s.
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27 Dec 2013
The goal of this playlist is to provide an overarching survey of the blues, from early recordings of 1920s Mississippi Delta Blues like Charlie Patton's Boweavil Blues to electric Chicago blues classic musicians like B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf. A focus on the 12-bar, AAB blues structure weaves its way throughout the selections.
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27 Dec 2013
The tracks in this playlist highlight the early sounds of bluegrass from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, with an emphasis on the genre's roots in Ango-American ballad traditions and gospel. Listeners are introduced to the virtuosic artistry of the banjo. Artists include Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson and Red Allen.
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27 Dec 2013
Conjunto Music evolved in the vast region encompassing northeastern Mexico and South Texas. It began during the second half of the 19th century with the introduction of the accordion by importers of the German-made instruments. Rural musicians and their public alike rapidly grew very fond of the sound of the new little black boxes and over the next 100 years the accordion ensemble replaced almost all other rural regional music groups. The roots of conjunto music are a fusion of traditional Mexican songs from a diverse range of regional repetoires and the oom-pah dance rhythms of German and Czech immigrant communities in Texas. Today, Conjunto Music is an important element of the Latin Music business in the United States and Mexico, as well as a vehicle for negotiating identity along the borderlands.
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27 Dec 2013
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