Music History Review 2

Front 1

The term "blues" and the music it describes was first notated by a university in which century?

Back 1

By Fisk University in 1903.

Front 2

What style of music is the music of the black church?

Back 2

Soul Gospel

Front 3

Who recorded Crazy Blues, the first recorded vocal blues song (1920)?

Back 3

Mamie Smith

Front 4

True or False :

Women recorded Vocal blues for several years before men did.

Back 4

True

Front 5

Where did most blues women begin their professional careers in the early days of the blues?

Back 5

Minstrel shows

Front 6

Who was known as "Empress of the Blues?"

Back 6

Bessie Smith

Front 7

How was Down Home Blues generally different than city blues in the 1920s?

Back 7

Soloist; one singer/musician; aka Country Blues

Front 8

What brought many blacks to the Mississippi Delta where the Delta Blues style would grow?

Back 8

Vast Black Labor Forces that built levees.

Front 9

What are the two largest cities in the Mississippi Delta Region?

Back 9

Helena, AK; Memphis, TN

Front 10

Which two music style characteristics are commonly identified with Mississippi Delta Blues?

Back 10

Percussive use of the guitar slide (bottleneck).

Front 11

The most well-known style associated with bottleneck (slide) is:

Back 11

Mississippi Delta Blues

Front 12

Who would become the best known early bluesman, called the "King of the Delta Blues Singers," also famous for the legend of selling his soul for talent?

Back 12

Robert Johnson

Front 13

True or False:

Some down-home blues artist were also preachers.

Back 13

True

Front 14

Which three regions are considered important style centers in down-home country blues?

Back 14

Delta, Piedmont, Texas

Front 15

What Blues style are BBQ Bob, Sonny Terry, and Blind Willie McTell associated with:

Back 15

Piedmont Blues

Front 16

What are two of the characteristics of Piedmont Blues music and performance?

Back 16

12 string guitar and danceable rag-time blues.

Front 17

Who was responsible for packaging the album Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers and invited Johnson to perform at Carengie Hallin his From Spirituals to Swing concerts, (but Johnson died just weeks before the event).

Back 17

John Hammond

Front 18

What did Thomas A. Dorsey call his blues-based church music?

Back 18

Gospel Music

Front 19

True or False:

The number of churches provided more opportunities for gospel groups than secular artists had in nightclubs through the 1960s

Back 19

True

Front 20

What was the name of the most commonly practiced vocal gospel style from the late 1920s through the 1940s?

Back 20

Jubilee Gospel Quartets

Front 21

What Chicago-based record label recorded electric blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf?

Back 21

Chess Records

Front 22

Who was "discovered" and recorded by Alan Lomax in Mississippi, moved to Chicago in 1943, and became Chess Record's biggest blues star?

Back 22

Muddy Waters

Front 23

Which of the following artists is besk known for his blues harp (harmonical) playing?

Back 23

Sony Boy Williamsons

Front 24

What blues style are Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Willie Dixon, and Sony Boy Williamson most famously associated with:

Back 24

Chicago Blues

Front 25

What Texas blues artist injected jazz progression into his blues, influencing blues artist since?

Back 25

Aaron "T-Bone" Walker

Front 26

What gospel style, characterized by multiple wailing lead vocals, popularized by groups such as the Soul Stirrers, replaced the jubilee style in the late 1940s?

Back 26

Hard Gospel

Front 27

What style do the Five Blind Boys of Alabama best represent?

Back 27

Hard Gospel

Front 28

Which gospel singer was influenced by the blues vocals of Bessie Smith, and was dubbed "The Queen of Gospel Music?"

Back 28

Mahlia Jackson

Front 29

What blues style are Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughan associated with:

Back 29

Texas Blues

Front 30

What section in Memphis, TN was the center of live music activity for bluesmen such as B.B King, Furry Lewis, Bukka White, and Willie Newborn?

Back 30

Beel Street

Front 31

Stevie Ray Vaughan's musical career began at what age eight, and he went on to be one of the finest Texas blues me, loved by many from the rock crowd, as well as blues lovers and the finest bluesman. What event cut his career short?

Back 31

Helicopter Crash

Front 32

What was the name of the Manhattan publishing community that became prominent at the dawn of the 20th century, providing the songs for theater shows?

Back 32

Tin Pan Alley

Front 33

In regards to entertainment, the term Broadway is synonymous with:

Back 33

American Musical Theater

Front 34

True or False:

The Broadway district still exists in New York City

Back 34

True

Front 35

Before radio and television shows, what was considered by the music business to be the most important quality for a song's success?

Back 35

Sheet Music

Front 36

Where is New York's Broadwas Theater district today?

Back 36

42nd Ave & 54th Street- Time Square

Front 37

New York City was not the only that stage entertainment was enjoyed in the 1800s. What types of shows were mounted across the country on small stages with small casts and first opened opportunities for black musicians after the U.S civil war?

Back 37

Minstrel Shows

Front 38

What turn-of-the century piano style was first popularized by Scott Joplin and used in minstrel shows, becoming crucial in the development of early jazz?

Back 38

Ragtime

Front 39

British Team Gilbert and Sullivan were immensely popular in New York through the early 20th century. What category of entertainment does their work fall?

Back 39

Operetta

Front 40

What type of staged variety show of the late 1800s/early 1900s contained a lineup of 10 acts by a group of musicians, acrobats, family acts, comedians, jugglers, magicians, and trained animals?

Back 40

Vaudeville

Front 41

Which of the pre-musical entertainment genres functioned like vaudeville, but had more daring material including, strippers?

Back 41

Burlesque

Front 42

What is revue?

Back 42

A plot-less acts of singing, dancing, comedy.

Front 43

True or False:

Broadway shows before the 1930s tend to be plotless strings of unrelated (or loosely related) songs with choreography by well-know stars.

Back 43

True

Front 44

What underclass groups were the predominant creative sources for the major trends in American pop music? (two answers)

Back 44

Jewish Russian Immigrants & African Americans

Front 45

George Gershwin became famous for his upbeat, witty shows and film scores, but is best remembered for his opera masterpiece of 1935 called:

Back 45

Porgy & Bess

Front 46

Which songwriter was a Russian immigrant and starting in 1911, wrote a series of smash hits including Alexander's Ragtime Band, God Bless America, White Christmas, Blue Skies, and Putting on the Ritz?

Back 46

Irving Berlin

Front 47

Which songwriter was on the staff at Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, MGM, and Paramount Studios from 1933 to 1961, and is the most successful songwriter in the history of motion pictures?

Back 47

Harry Warren

Front 48

When did record companies begin to use electricity to cut grooves instead of the acoustic power inherent in sound?

Back 48

1925

Front 49

What instrument designer cited the Theremin as the major influence for his own most popular product?

Back 49

Robert Mooge