American Music - Plantation Songs

What did the settlers bring to United States that would be

the greatest influence on American music?

• Manufactured goods

• Guitars

• Slaves

• Horses

Where did the African slaves use to work?

• Schools

• Supermarkets

• Cotton fields

• Police

What is the name given to the songs the slaves used to sing while working?

• Work songs or

  Plantation songs

• Pop songs

• Rock songs

• K-pop songs

The slaves used to sing plantation songs to...

• advertise your products

• liven up the parties

• congratulate the groom and bride on the weeding

• express anger and frustration through creativity

Sometimes slaves used plantation songs to hide a second meaning.

They used the plantation songs to...

• pass down information about the lived experience of enslaved people

• tell jokes

• communicate with their lover

• arrange with their friends the time to meet without the parents knowing

What is the name of the form where the first voice starts, and after a couple of measures, the second voice starts singing the same material played by the first voice?

• Sonata form

• Round form

• Ternary form

• Binary form

Who colonized the United States of America?

• Chinese

• German

• Australian

• British

WHy were some slaves not allowed to play the drums?

• Their owners thought they would start a rebellion.

• The sound annoyed the owners.

• Because slaves used them celebrate.

• The drums scared away animals.