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Which best describes classic blues? - correct answer ✔✔12-bar form
Jazz, blues, and country have been understood to have separate histories due to: - correct
answer ✔✔the racial separation present in U.S. social relations.
This style derived from syncopated dance music: - correct answer ✔✔jazz.
This term, referring to a certain style of American folk music, was used prior to the other terms:
- correct answer ✔✔Hillbilly
"Blue Yodel #9" incorporates elements of country, jazz, and blues. - correct answer ✔✔True
This genre designation, originally considered derogatory, would become a badge of honour for
later performers of the style: - correct answer ✔✔Hillbilly music
Bluegrass music originated in Tenessee. - correct answer ✔✔False
In the early 20th century, all styles of music recorded by white musicians were designated
"hillbilly music." - correct answer ✔✔False
This artist or group would put a honky-tonk and western swing spin on Muleskinner Blues: -
correct answer ✔✔The Maddox Brothers and Rose
,This artist was the first major influence on country music guitar playing: - correct answer
✔✔Maybelle Carter
Which of these composers represent the true "heart" of ragtime music? - correct answer
✔✔Scott Joplin
The main themes of the course include: - correct answer ✔✔Race, gender, technology,
hybridity, generation divides, music business, political influence
Radio during the Great Depression: - correct answer ✔✔allowed advertisers to gain more
power over programming.
Blackface minstrelsy was created to entertain: - correct answer ✔✔Working-class white men.
Why did Chuck Berry's music confuse some people? - correct answer ✔✔It incorporated
country music.
Mass culture is a commodified product. - correct answer ✔✔True
The irony of major companies avoiding r&b music was: - correct answer ✔✔the strong rhythms
and evocative content in r&b music would have a huge impact on the direction of popular
music.
Hank Williams incorporated the honky-tonk sound that was created by: - correct answer
✔✔Ernest Tubb
How were white teenagers first exposed to r&b music in the early 50s? - correct answer
✔✔through transistor radios
, How did the strike between the AFM and the NAB affect musicians? - correct answer
✔✔Musicians lost millions of dollars.
Frank Sinatra bought out his contract from Tommy Dorsey, indicating: - correct answer ✔✔that
popular vocalists were becoming more popular than big bands.
This technological advance allowed teenagers to develop their musical tastes in private: -
correct answer ✔✔Transistor radio
The main result of the American Federation of Musicians recording ban? - correct answer ✔✔A
royalty on record sales was implemented
King Records: - correct answer ✔✔was best known for its mixing of genres
The most popular singer of the 30s and 40s: - correct answer ✔✔Bing Crosby
The biggest casualty when independent radio increased in popularity: - correct answer ✔✔a
certain announcing style
He is believed to have discovered the sales potential of rockabilly: - correct answer ✔✔Sam
Phillips
His sound was heavily influenced by Western Swing and bluegrass: - correct answer ✔✔Bill
Haley
Like Big Joe Turner, Fats Domino: - correct answer ✔✔didn't change his style.
The teen popular culture consumers of the 1950s are referred to as: - correct answer ✔✔The
Silent Generation