Roots of American Music - Folklore, Blues, Jazz - JMM200

• Title: Roots of American Music - Folklore, Blues, Jazz
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2012 to 2012
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (28)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Additional information: http://kas.fsv.cuni.cz/require_ang.html
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Miloš Calda
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Miloš Calda

Annotation

Last update: CALDA (07.10.2008)

The aim of the course is to show the developments in non-artificial American music from the late 19th century to the present.

Literature

Last update: CALDA (07.10.2008)

Various items and sound recordings provided by the teacher

Recommended sites:

Library of Congress Folklife Center http://www.loc.gov/folklife/index.html

http://www.redhotjazz.com/

http://www.swingmusic.net/

http://hardbop.tripod.com/

For early modern jazz info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop http://www.jazz.columbia.edu/

http://www.wnur.org/jazz/

http://newarkwww.rutgers.edu/IJS/

Requirements to the exam

Last update: CALDA (29.09.2012)

1. regular attendance (you may miss the maximum of 3 lectures per term)
2. submission of a paper by the last week of the Winter Term

Co představuje plagiát?

(A) Použití veškerých citovaných textů v seminárních a kvalifikačních pracích musí splňovat tyto podmínky: (1) začátek a konec citované pasáže musí být opatřeny uvozovkami; (2) citujeme-li z periodik či knih, je nutno uvést - zpravidla v poznámce pod čarou nebo vysvětlivce - autora, název díla, rok vydání a stránku, z níž je citováno; (3) v případě citací z internetových zdrojů je nutno uvést full internetovou adresu, na níž lze citovaný text dohledat, a datum návštěvy internetové stránky.

(B) Pokud budou v uvedených pracích zjištěny přejaté texty bez výše uvedených náležitostí, bude práce považována za plagiát a předána Disciplinární komisi FSV UK. 

Academic fraud

(A) Any use of quoted texts in seminar papers and theses must be acknowledged. Such use must meet the following conditions: (1) the beginning and end of the quoted passage must be shown with quotation marks; (2) when quoting from periodicals or books, the name(s) of author(s), book or article titles,  the year of publication, and page from which the passage is quoted  must all be stated in footnotes or endnotes; (3) internet sourcing must include a full web address where the text can be found as well as the date the web page was visited by the author.

(B) In case the use of any texts other than those written by the author is established without proper acknowledgement as defined in (A), the paper or thesis will be deemed plagiarized and handed over to the Disciplinary Commission of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Syllabus

Last update: CALDA (11.10.2013)

UNITS
Introduction
American Folklore, European Influences, Minstrel Shows
Black Folklore: Worksongs, Blues
Ragtime
Early jazz (1890-1920)
Jazz in the 1920s: hot vs sweet
Jazz in the 1930s: black and white swing
Jazz in the 1940s: revivalism, mainstream, birth of modern jazz
Jazz in the 1950s: cool and hard bop
Jazz in the 1950s: great artists (ia Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, John Lewis)
Jazz in the 1960s and 1970s: fusion
Contemporary jazz scene