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32 Cards in this Set
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Why did Benjo fall out of favor?
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Because string strength and doesn't sustain. Whites use more in minstrel shows
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What is the Blues form?
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A - first line
A - repeated line B - line that rhymes 3 bar stanza |
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What is the 12 bar blues?
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I I I I
4 4 II 5 5 II Polyphonic |
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Who was W.C. Hondy?
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Father of the Blues
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What was the Field Holler/Worker Song?
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Usually as a group, leader and followers, call and response
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What were blue notes?
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Pentatonic scale - had 5 notes
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What was the slack key?
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Changed guitar tuning to give the full chord with all strings
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What was first blues record and first black record?
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Crazy blues
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What was T.O.B.A.
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Theatre Owners Booking Association
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What was the first published blues song?
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Dallas Blues
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Who was the songwriter that helped Mamie Smith get recorded?
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Perry Bradford
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What was the first black band record?
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Crazy Blues
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Who was the most famous black performer in 20's?
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Bessie Smith
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Who was first blues singer to perform blues and the mother of the blues?
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Ma Rainey
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Which 2 women changed the sound of the blues?
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Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey
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Which woman blues had a different type of recording with herself being her own accompaniment?
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Victoria Spitten
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What was Lucille Bodul's real name?
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Bessie Jackson
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Who was the first country blues superstar?
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Blind Lennon Jefferson
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What name did Blind Lemon record spiritual numbers under?
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Deacon L.J. Bates
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What instriment did Henry Thomas play?
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Quills
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What country blues musician did not play instrument
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Texas Alexander
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Who was the yodeller discovered by talent scout HC. Speir?
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Tommy Johnson
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Which singer did no one know their real name?
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Kid Bailey
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What was the 5-1 cadences throughout moving hrough circle of 5ths?
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Rag chord progression
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What name did Charlie Pattin release religious recordings under?
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Elder JJ Hadley
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Who was Missisippi John Hurt known as who played all types of musical genres
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songster
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Who played in open D minor tuned
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Skip James
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Who all discovered Skip James?
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John Fahey
Bill Barth Henry Vestine |
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What was the biggest selling blues record of the 20s?
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Kansis City Blues
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Who found Furry Lewis?
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Sam Charters
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Where was Crazy Blues recorded?
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New York
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Who started Black Swan records?
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W.C. Handy
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