Negro music in America; 30
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- Transcript
Negro music and American. Negro music and American exploration of it and its impact on American culture. Here's your host for the survey's Tony look at Bach ragtime music was called Ragtime because of his reggae a rhythmic nature in a major sense it was probably the general public's first introduction to West African syncopation blended with European musical elements and the nation went wild about it. Cheerful and gay had tickle public fancy after the long depression of the 1890s at the world's fairs in Chicago and St. Louis in about 900 Tin Pan Alley begin to cash in on ragtime and it became a coast to coast sensation circled. Globe and took your advice to harm it went down river to New Orleans and became a part of that miraculous blending that became traditional jazz. Our first two numbers are from a unique Riverside
recording featuring the love Giles ragtime Orchestra of New Orleans both of these numbers are played exactly as written and arranged by the red backed bulk of standard rags by their composers. So here we go. Truly back to the turn of the century to hear first the entertainer read by Scott Joplin and then the West Indies Blues by CNS Williams. Street bands and jug bands which were often known as spasmed bands
played a lot of ragtime and spread its popularity throughout the south. We have a modern version of a jug band. Dave Van Ronk ragtime jug St. Peter's recreating ragtime force into numbers the famous George a camp meeting followed by the St. Louis tickle. I am.
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compose music with a definite form is much more than that. We'll hear more ragtime next week in CEO and influence jazz pianists and been leaders such as Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller. Negro music in America with Tony look and Bach presented transcribed by the SEIU Radio Network. On us again next week. As we continue our exploration of the negro and American music. This is the SEIU Broadcasting Service. This program was distributed by national educational radio. This is the national educational radio network.
- Series
- Negro music in America
- Episode Number
- 30
- Producing Organization
- WSIU 8 (Television station : Carbondale, Ill.)
- Contributing Organization
- University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/500-6m335s28
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- Description
- Episode Description
- This program, the thirtieth of thirty nine parts, presents various examples of African-American folk and jazz music.
- Series Description
- This series focuses on music created and performed by African-Americans, including folk, and jazz styles. This series is hosted by Anton Luckenbach of Carbondale, Illinois, who also gathered interviews in New Orleans for this series.
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-06-21
- Topics
- Music
- Race and Ethnicity
- Media type
- Sound
- Duration
- 00:14:22
- Credits
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Host: Luckenbach, Anton
Producing Organization: WSIU 8 (Television station : Carbondale, Ill.)
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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University of Maryland
Identifier: 67-1-30 (National Association of Educational Broadcasters)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Duration: 00:14:06
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Negro music in America; 30,” 1967-06-21, University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 7, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-6m335s28.
- MLA: “Negro music in America; 30.” 1967-06-21. University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 7, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-6m335s28>.
- APA: Negro music in America; 30. Boston, MA: University of Maryland, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-500-6m335s28