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WorksheetsAmerican Music - Plantation Songs
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
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.
