The diverse musical journey of AC!

 Hey ya'll! It's AC here again! This is probably my favorite blog yet. I mainly listen to gospel/christian music, so discussing the history of this genre of music is going to be very interesting and fun for me! So let's dive into this now. Gospel emerged in America in the nineteen thirties , which was during the slavery era and American Protestantism.  It mainly emerged from three types of musical activities. The first one is the hymn style of Charles Albert Tindley, he was a Philadelphia minister who composed hymns based on negro spirituals, adding instrumentals. The second one is the minimalist, solo-sung "rural gospel" tunes that appeared as a counterpart to the rural blues, and the last, but not least the uninhibited, exuberant worship style of the Holiness-Pentecostal branch of the christian church. Here is a video clip of the Holiness-   Pentecostal  church music that will give you a taste of the basis of the start of gospel music. We see one of the first ...

Hey ya'll! It's AC here again! Today I am going to talk about the specific attributes that play into music and gender, especially in specific cultures.  We have discussed many cultures in this class, so I am going to have a diversified blog where I touch on different attributes of cultures in my blog. I am going to start off discussing "Ho wy hey yo-six nations women." This is a piece in Native American culture that we discussed that the voices of the singers are all women. This one of the few that was all women's voices, so I wanted to touch on this one. The attributes that go into this piece are shuffle dance, shakers, drums, and a tremolo pattern. Usually in Native American music males and females have corresponding roles, but seeing this highlight of women's voices was beautiful to hear and see. We see deep culture in this music as well which is very interesting! I am also going to touch on the music of the Andes with gender roles. Men are mainly the instr...