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29 Cards in this Set
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Stephen Foster
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Minstrelsy/Black faced acts
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George M. Cohan*
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Americanized musical
*yankee doodle |
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Showboat
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Americanized musical
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Jerome Kern
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Tin pan alley
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Bing Crosby*
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Tin pan alley
*Brother, can you spare me a dime (song about great depression) |
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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Black gospel
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Mahalia Jackson
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Black gospel
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W.C. Handy
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Published blues
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Bessie smith
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Classic blues female singers
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Gertrude "Ma" Rainey*
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Classic blues female singers
*She's the only female singer that can show up on this test |
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Blind lemon jefferson
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Country blues
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Robert Johnson
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Country blues male singers
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Meade "Lux" Lewis*
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Boogie Woogie
*actually sounds like "boogie woogie". Piano. Left hand is playing the 12-bar blues. |
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Muddy Waters
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Urban blues
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Electric Urban Blues Band
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Urban Blues
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The Carter Family
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Country Music (early)
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Jimmie Rodgers*
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Earliest stages of Country
*Countryish...plus yodelling |
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Bob Wills*
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Western Swing
*Cotton-eyed Joe. Fiddle, steel guitar giveaway! |
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Bill Monroe
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Bluegrass
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Hank Williams*
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Honky Tonk
*Emo country song, with Hawaiian sounding strings. |
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Willie Nelson
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Austin outlaw
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Scott Joplin*
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Ragtime
*The song that Mark plays on piano...sounds like Gershwin |
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Joe "King" oliver
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Traditional Jazz
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Louis Armstrong*
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Traditional Jazz
*Trumpet, sounds scatty, starts be-bopping eventually |
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Duke Ellington*
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Swing
*Sounds like a good swing beat. 1920's sound. Brass band. |
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Count Basie
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Swing
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Bop
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Charlie Parker*
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Bop
*Saxophone crazy unpredictable solo, jazz quick beat |
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Miles Davis*
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Jazz Fusion Rock
*Sounds like a detective in NY...scatty loud drums, eerie |
