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53 Cards in this Set
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What are the identifying characteristics of a "true" folk song?
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Words that tell a story in the history of culture; oral representation-words of the people.
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True or False:
Instrumentation (the choice of instruments used) is a deciding factor in determining whether music is "true" folk music. |
False
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What is folk process?
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A collective changing of a song; over generations.
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The Appalachian music tradition gets most of its Celtic music tradition from what countries?
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Ireland, Scotland
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What best describes all ballad songs?
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Songs/poems that tell a story.
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What were the churches called in slave times where the spirituals developed?
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Praise House
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Through what famous singing group did America first learn of spirituals?
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
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Why did the folklorist John and Alan Lomax first tour America seeking to record folk and blues?
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To preserve traditional singers and instrumentalist.
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What folk artist collected songs from his travels through the south and was eventually pardoned on two separate prison sentences, one with help from the Lomaxes?
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Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter
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The style of roots music most associated with Bill Monroe is:
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Bluegrass
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What 5 instruments usually compromise the average Bluegrass band?
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Fiddle, Banjo, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass Fiddle
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What prolific songwriter and performer embodied the folk spirit of the Okie farmer of the Depression and came to symbolize the radical political folk musician?
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Woody Guthrie
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What artist was called "America's tuning fork" by Poet Carl Sandburg; stayed on the forefront of music and politics through the 1960s; was blacklisted by the McCarthy era's HUAC committee; and wrote 60s civil rights and folk anthems WE SHALL OVERCOME, IF I HAD A HAMMER AND TURN, TURN, TURN??
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Peter Seeger
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Why did the Weavers become blacklisted by HUAC in the mid 1950s?
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They were judged for being subversive meaning they want to undermine an established goverment.
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What East Coast folk artist openly opposed the Vietnam War by organizing the Institute of for the Study of Non-Violence, and also made the song We Shall Overcome, co-written by Pete Seeger, the 1960s anti-war anthem?
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Joan Baez
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What is Greenwich Village?
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An unofficial residential borough in Lower Manhattan- A have for political art in the late 1950-60s.
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Who was the legendary A&R man who "discovered" Bob Dylan?
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John Hammond
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Why is Bob Dylan considered the most influential American Pop musician of the 1960s?
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Because of his prolific lyrics.
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What songwriter changed popular music with deeply personal, highly intelligent and poetic lyrics; writing, for example All Along the Watchtower, Knockin' On Heavens Door, and Blowin' in the Wind?
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan traveled from Minnesota home to New York City, allowing him to see what dying folk musician, who was also his most important influence?
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Woody Guthrie
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What was the Medicine Show?
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Business for selling "Patent medicine, traveling around the country.
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The majority of music on the air during the early day of radio cam from what source?
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Local talent performing live in the studio.
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True or False:
In the early days of country (1920s thru 1940s), aspiring recording artists first had to make a name for themselves in live radio. |
True
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Which radio station developed the most popular "barn dance" radio show called The Grand Ole Opry in the 1920s?
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WSM, Nashville
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What cornerstone country family is credited with setting many standards of the country music style, influencing the next generations of singers with 250 recordings and Opry broadcasts?
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The Carter Family
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What country star developed the guitar playing technique of playing the melody on the bass strings while picking chords on the higher strings?
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Maybelle Carter
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Which singer learned the blues as a railroad laborer, later combining it with hillbilly music?
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Jimmie Rodgers
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What early producer recorded both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers for Victor in 1927?
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Ralph S. Peer
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Which artist became the first Western Movie Star by battling the Phantom Empire for his horse and singing songs like That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine in a 1930s science-fiction movie series? He later went on to star in over 80 films and started producing the first ever made-for-TV series?
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Gene Autry
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The style of country music that is most associated with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboy is:
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Western Swing
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What musical style became the predominant influence on popular music from the mid-1930s through the 1940s?
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Swing
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Western Swing is a hybrid of what two style of music?
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Mixture of western music and Big Band or "Swing" Jazz.
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Hey, Good Lookin', Cold Cold Heart and Your Cheatin' Heart were all written and performed by this person often credited as the best country songwriter of all time.
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Hank Williams
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What was the king of Honk-Tonk, who died of overdoes of alcohol and drugs in 1953 at age 29?
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Hank Williams
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Which two men formed the first country music Publishing firm in Nashville in 1942?
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Roy Acuff & Fred Rose; Acuff-Rose.
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What urbanized country style emerged in Southwestern roadhouses during and after World War II?
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Honky-Tonk
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Rockabilly can be described as a blend of what two types of music ?
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Mixture of Hillbilly/Country & R&B.
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Which independent record label fist discovered Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis?
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Sun Records
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Wat artist combined county and rhythm and blues to create the first rock and roll million-selling hit?
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Bill Haley & the Comet.
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What popular country duo's huge single Cathy's Clown helped put Warner Bros. Records on the map?
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The Everly Brothers
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Who produced Johnny Cash's Grammy-winning American Recordings release?
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Rick Rubin
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Besides Don Law, what two Nashville producers created the "Nashville Sound"?
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Owen Bradley & Chet Atkins
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The West Coast style of country artist whose roster includes Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, is best described as a blend of what two older country styles?
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Combining the energy of rockabilly and the soul of honky-tonk with electronic guitars and steels.
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Who created the first country/rock album and what is the record's title?
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The Byrds
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What guitarist formed the Flying Burrito Brothers and "spread the gospel" of electric country guitar oriented music in the late 1960s?
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Gram Parson
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Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman and Gene Clark formed what legendary innovative popular group: leading the way to Folk Rock in 1965, Psychedelic Rock in 1967, and then Country Rock in 1968?
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The Bryds
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Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Chris Etheridge, and Pete Kleinow formed what country rock group of the late 1960s?
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The Flying Burrito Brothers
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True or False:
Both Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn grew up poor in the Appalachians. |
True
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True or False:
Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn buck the prevailing tend by both being women singers and songwriters |
True
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What three cities are the major producers of country music in the USA?
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Nashville, TN; Bakersfield, CA; Austin, TX
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Where did Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson go in the early 1970s when they left Nashville to start a fresh country sound?
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Austin, TX
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The 1980s punk band The Cramps revived what older style of country music?
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Rockabilly
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Brian Setzer's Stray Cats revived what older style of country music?
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Rockabilly
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