MUNM 287 P1:L3 questions with
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This song form is at the root of most forms of American music: - correct answer ✔✔Spirituals
Plantation owners became wise to the use of this instrument as a means of communication
from plantation to plantation: - correct answer ✔✔Drums
This choir from a southern University was at the forefront of spreading the word of the power of
the Spirituals: - correct answer ✔✔The Fisk Jubilee Singers
The first Black Christian music differed from earlier black music in subject matter and content.
The religious music became more: - correct answer ✔✔Melodic
It is important to remember the role of this element in the Spirituals...the spur of the moment
variations wrought spontaneously by the singers. It meant that no two performances were the
same. - correct answer ✔✔Improvisation
1903 author WEB DuBois dedicated an entire chapter of his book The Souls of Black Folk to the
Spirituals. That chapter was titled: - correct answer ✔✔The Sorrow Songs
The most racially segregated building block in popular music is: - correct answer ✔✔Gospel
White gospel is sometimes referred to as: - correct answer ✔✔Shaped Note or Sacred Harp
He was the first to call the news form of sacred music "gospel": - correct answer ✔✔Thomas
Dorsey
verified answers passed
This song form is at the root of most forms of American music: - correct answer ✔✔Spirituals
Plantation owners became wise to the use of this instrument as a means of communication
from plantation to plantation: - correct answer ✔✔Drums
This choir from a southern University was at the forefront of spreading the word of the power of
the Spirituals: - correct answer ✔✔The Fisk Jubilee Singers
The first Black Christian music differed from earlier black music in subject matter and content.
The religious music became more: - correct answer ✔✔Melodic
It is important to remember the role of this element in the Spirituals...the spur of the moment
variations wrought spontaneously by the singers. It meant that no two performances were the
same. - correct answer ✔✔Improvisation
1903 author WEB DuBois dedicated an entire chapter of his book The Souls of Black Folk to the
Spirituals. That chapter was titled: - correct answer ✔✔The Sorrow Songs
The most racially segregated building block in popular music is: - correct answer ✔✔Gospel
White gospel is sometimes referred to as: - correct answer ✔✔Shaped Note or Sacred Harp
He was the first to call the news form of sacred music "gospel": - correct answer ✔✔Thomas
Dorsey
