1. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions The World of Music 7 th edition Part 2 Listening to American Music: Folk, Religious, Jazz, and Pop Chapter 3: Folk Music Traditions

2. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Traditional Folk Music Informal Simple Not Written Constantly Changing Anonymous

3. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Psalm Singing Urban European Formal Notated Rural Memorized Lining Out

4. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Folk Song Types Narrative Ballads Lyric Songs Work Songs Children’s Songs Protest Songs Rally Songs Dance Music

5. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Blues Secular version of the Negro spiritual Influenced many other Folk Styles Boogie Woogie Rock Zydeco

6. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Urban Folk Revival “Tom Dooley” Bob Dylan Arlo Guthrie Joan Baez Peter, Paul, and Mary Simon and Garfunkel

7. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Urban Blues Addition of electric guitar, rhythm section, sometimes horns Became rhythm and blues, or R&B, in 1949 B. B. King Also Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Lightn’n Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf

8. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Chapter Summary Do you listen to folk music styles? (Suggestion: Think carefully about the function of your favorite music.) Compare and contrast the early blues with urban blues/R&B. How is the style and feel of the blues similar/different?

9. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved Part II Listening to American Music Chapter 3 Folk Music Traditions Image Credits Slide 2Fototeca Storica Nazionale/ Getty Images