History of american music

HISTORY OF AMERICAN MUSIC

Activity1. Look at the pictures below and answer for the questions.

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   What do these pictures have in common?
   
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   Do you know the musical genre of these pictures?
   
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   Do musical instruments used in the pictures tell something to you?
   
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Activity2. There are given words with its definition below. Read them and match with pictures.

Visionary – a person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like

Minstrel – a member of a band of entertainers, typically white actors with blackened faces, who performed in a type of stage entertainment prevalent in the US in the 19th and early 20th centuries featuring songs, dances, and formulaic comic routines based on stereotyped depictions of black Americans.

Blues – melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a wider audience in the 1940s, as black people migrated to the cities. This urban blues gave rise to rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

Mandolins - a musical instrument resembling a lute, having paired metal strings plucked with a plectrum. It has a characteristic tremolo when sustaining long notes

Fiddles – a violin

Vaudeville - a type of entertainment popular chiefly in the US in the early 20th century, featuring a mixture of specialty acts such as burlesque comedy and song and dance. "his comedic roots are in vaudeville". A light or comic stage play with interspersed songs.

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