Module 2

Front 1

Although he led a New Orleans-style jazz band, Joe "King" Oliver actually made his reputation as a great jazz orchestra leader not in New Orleans but in Chicago in the 1920's

Back 1

True

Front 2

The Santeria is an Afro-Cuban adaption of a Yoruba religious practice

Back 2

True

Front 3

During the nineteenth century, "high-brow" was a phrase used to describe entertainment that appealed to the rural counties of this country

Back 3

False

Front 4

the Virginia Minstrels were a group of four entertainers, singing and playing the instruments associated with minstrel shows

Back 4

True

Front 5

Cohan was known for being a one-man entertainment industry, writing songs, lyrics, directing, performing, and producing

Back 5

True

Front 6

Scott Joplin's famous "Red Book" was a collection of the best saloons and brothels for ragtime pianists to perform

Back 6

False

Front 7

Bessie Smith would be considered a famous rural (or country) blues artist

Back 7

False

Front 8

Joplin believed a piano rag should be played at least at a fast tempo so that one could dance to it

Back 8

False

Front 9

Based on the march, this is a syncopated music style, generally played on piano

Back 9

Ragtime

Front 10

The most popular dance of the 1920's

Back 10

Foxtrot

Front 11

This phrase refers to "spontaneous musical creation" and is the essence of what jazz music is all about"

Back 11

Improvisation

Front 12

A ragtime piece written for the piano

Back 12

"Piano rag"

Front 13

More than one performer simultaneously making up music as they play

Back 13

Collective improvisation

Front 14

A popular dance which was borrowed and adapted from a black folk dance

Back 14

Animal dance

Front 15

A recording made by black artists for a black audience

Back 15

Race record

Front 16

The "Red Light" district in New Orleans where jazz thrived in at the turn of the century

Back 16

Storyville

Front 17

Rhythmic play over a four-beat rhythm

Back 17

Swing

Front 18

In a jazz band, this phrase refers to the horn soloists (trumpet, clarinet, trombone)

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