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WorksheetsFolk Songs, Spirituals, Blues
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 4mins
How are folk songs passed down
Oral tradition
Reading music
By phone
What are some functions/topcis of folk songs?
(a)
Name some characterstics of folk songs
Passed down orally
Vary/change over time
Include improv
Complicated to sing
True or false: only rich, high class people are allowed to write and sing folk music
(a)
Who originated African American spirituals?
White enslavers
Classical musicians
Enslaved people
Preachers
Which is NOT a characterstic/function of spirituals?
Sacred (Christian) text/topics
Originally taught in school
Sung in code
Sung for worship
What was the secret route that helped enslabed people escape to freedom in the north?
Secret Stations
Nile River
Underground Railraod
What was the coded meaning for "heaven" or "home" in spirituals?
Railraod
Freedom
River
North
True or false: A "chariot" like "swing low sweet chariot" was code for the underground railroad.
(a)
What words were used as code in the song "Follow the Drinking Gourd"?
(a)
Who was considered the "Moses" of her people?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Rosa Parks
Araminta "Minty" Ross
How many trips did Tubman make returning into the dangerous south to help others escape bondage?
19
18
20
5
Select the musical features/instruments found in Blues music
Hard Life
Call & Response
Improv
AAB
True or False: Blues has NOT directly influence other genres of music
(a)
The blues chord sequence or structure is known as the .......... bar blues
10
8
7
12
What does improvisation or "improv" mean?
Robert Johnson is famous for apparently doing this (at the crossroads) ...
Borrowing money without returning it
Being the best guitarist
Selling is soul to the devil
Creating blues music
In what area did the blues originate?
American South
Mississippi Delta
Chicago
New York
What northern city did Black blues musicians flee to from the south where they continued developing blues?
Why did blues musicians and other Black Americans leave the south?
To make it in Hollywood
To eat better food
To escape Jim Crow laws
To escape racism
What does AAB refer to in the blues structure?
Repeating styles
Repeating rhythms
Repeating lyrics
Repeating pitches
