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35 Cards in this Set
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The term "blues" and the music it describes was first notated by a university in which century?
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20th Century (1903)
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What style of music is the music of the black church?
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Soul Gospel
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Who is the first commercially successful man to record authentic southern black country blues vocals?
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Papa Charlie Jackson
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What were jugs in the jug bands?
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Used like brass instruments
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Who recorded "Crazy Blues," the first recorded vocal blues song?
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Mamie Smith
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True or False: Women recorded vocal blues for several years before men did
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True
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Where did most blues women begin their professional careers in the early days of the blues?
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Minstrel Shows
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The first sales of blues music on records opened a new market of black music for black consumers. What was this market called by the record industry before 1948?
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Race Records
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Who was known as the "Empress of the Blues."?
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Bessie Smith
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How was Down Home blues generally different than city blues in the 1920's?
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Down Home is usually a solo musician, while city blues has a band.
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What brought many blacks to the Mississippi Delta where the Delta blues style would grow?
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Black labor built the levees. Many work camps.
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What are the tow largest cities in the Mississippi Delta region?
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Helena, Arkansas and Memphis, Tenn.
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Which two music style characteristics are commonly identified with Mississippi Delta Blues?
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Bottleneck (slide) and percussive attack.
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The most well known style associated with bottleneck slide is
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Percussive attack
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Who would become the best known early blues man, called the "King of the Delta Blues Singers," also famous for the legend of selling his soul for talent?
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Robert Johnson
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True or False: Some down home blues artists were also preachers
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True
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Which three regions are considered important styles centers in down home country blues?
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Delta, Texas, and Piedmont
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What blues style are BBQ Bob, Sonny Terry, and Blind Willies McTell associated with?
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Piedmont
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What are two of the most common style characteristics of Piedmont Blues music and performance?
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Ragtime, 12 string guitars
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Who was responsible for packaging the album Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues singers and invited Johnson to perform at Carnegie Hall in his "From Spirituals to Swing" concerts?
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John Hammond
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What did Thomas A. Dorsey call his blues based church music?
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Gospel
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True or False: The number of churches provided more opportunities for gospel groups than secular artists had in nightclubs through the 1960s.
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True
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What was the name of the most commonly practiced vocal gospel style from the late 1920s through the 1940s?
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Jubilee
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What Chicago based record label recorded electric blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf?
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Chess Records
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Who was discovered and recorded by Alan Lomax in Mississippi, moved to Chicago in 1943, and became Chess Record's biggest blues star?
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Muddy Waters
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Which of the following artists is best known for his blues harp (harmonica) playing?
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John Lee and Rice Miller (both called Sonny Boy Williamson).
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What blues style are Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy Williamson most famously associated with?
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Chicago Blues
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What Texas blues artist injected jazz progressions into his blues, influencing blues artists since?
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Aaron T-bone Walker
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What gospel style, characterized by wailing lead vocals, popularized by the Soul Stirrers, replaced Jubilee style in the late 1940s?
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Hard Gospel
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What style do the Five Blind Boys of Alabama best represent?
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Hard Gospel
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Which gospel singer was influenced by the blues vocals of Bessie Smith and was dubbed "The Queen of Gospel Music"?
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Mahalia Jackson
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What blues style are Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughan associated with?
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Texas Shuffle
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What section of Memphis, Tennessee was the center of live music activity for bluesmen such as BB King, Furry Lewis, and Bukka White?
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Beale Street
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How did Stevie Ray Vaughan die?
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He died in a helicopter crash
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What New Orleans pianist became well known for his blues playing, using Mardi Gras props and psychedelia in his staging, sometimes playing for Phil Spector's wall of sound sessions?
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Dr. John
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