popular music

african influences- slavery

• 17th century
• mostly form west africans
• african native music can be seen in black american music and later in pop
• timbres- often fuzzy, reedy and precussion (adapted with pitch bends and mutes)
• rythms- cross rhythms and syncaptaion
• call and response
• pitch- feature of african language
• improvisation- oral tradition (nothing is written down)
• social thing, dance and singing

european music

• hyms and folk songs (vaughan, williams and bartok - nationalsim)
• …