UMD MUSC215 Exam 1
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1. Mediation Intermediary action referring to the practices of all the people who intervene as
popular music is produced, distributed, and consumed
2. Hegemony The predominant influence of a political or cultural force over another
3. Counter-Hege- resisting the influence of a political or cultural force that has hegemony
mony
4. Thomas Edison 1. Phonograph
2. Wax Cylinders
3. Edison Records
5. Emile Berliner 1. Flat Disc 1901
2. Victor Talking Machine Company
6. First Three Major 1. The Edison Company
Record Labels 2. Columbia Records
3. Victory Talking Machine Company
7. Coin Operat- 1. Urban public Places
ed Jukebox Ma- 2. Mainly played military marches and vaudeville tunes
chines
8. Phonograph at Improved:
home 1. Sound
2. Appearance
3. Musical Genres played
9. Enrico Caruso 1. Italian Tenor
2. Victor's first Red Label recording star
3. Sang "Questa o Quella" from Verdi's Rigoletto
10. Al Jolson 1. Blackface Performance
2. Performed "Camptown Races"
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3. Considered a "hero" to black people of America and the "World's Greatest
Entertainer"
11. Race Records 1. Key recording patents expired in 1915
2. Lots of competition joined into the music industry
3. These companies dealt with genres such blues, jazz, and other "black music"
12. Bessie Smith 1. "Empress of the Blues"
2. Negotiated 25% royalties on her recordings
3. Signed with Columbia and sold 6.5 million recordings
4. Sang "Down Hearted Blues"
13. Minstrel Shows 1. First American musical and theatrical entertainment
2. Most popular form entertainment in US for a while
3. Embodied racialized sounds and stereotypes
14. Origins of Min- 1. European "quadrille" (White)
strelsy 2. Parody called the Cakewalk (Black)
3. Imitation of Cakewalk (White)
4. Cakewalk becomes signature element of minstrelsy
15. "Jim Crow" 1. Song written by Thomas Darmouth Rice
2. First international hit song
3. Crow was a character (trickster)
4. Good "Negro" - Old slave, not bright, nice
5. Bad "Negro" - From the city, fast talker, untrustworthy
16. Imagined Com- People that imagine themselves as part of a community with people that they will
munity likely never meet
17. Narrative 1. The representation in art of an event or story
2. Part of the mediation process
18.
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1. Mediation Intermediary action referring to the practices of all the people who intervene as
popular music is produced, distributed, and consumed
2. Hegemony The predominant influence of a political or cultural force over another
3. Counter-Hege- resisting the influence of a political or cultural force that has hegemony
mony
4. Thomas Edison 1. Phonograph
2. Wax Cylinders
3. Edison Records
5. Emile Berliner 1. Flat Disc 1901
2. Victor Talking Machine Company
6. First Three Major 1. The Edison Company
Record Labels 2. Columbia Records
3. Victory Talking Machine Company
7. Coin Operat- 1. Urban public Places
ed Jukebox Ma- 2. Mainly played military marches and vaudeville tunes
chines
8. Phonograph at Improved:
home 1. Sound
2. Appearance
3. Musical Genres played
9. Enrico Caruso 1. Italian Tenor
2. Victor's first Red Label recording star
3. Sang "Questa o Quella" from Verdi's Rigoletto
10. Al Jolson 1. Blackface Performance
2. Performed "Camptown Races"
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3. Considered a "hero" to black people of America and the "World's Greatest
Entertainer"
11. Race Records 1. Key recording patents expired in 1915
2. Lots of competition joined into the music industry
3. These companies dealt with genres such blues, jazz, and other "black music"
12. Bessie Smith 1. "Empress of the Blues"
2. Negotiated 25% royalties on her recordings
3. Signed with Columbia and sold 6.5 million recordings
4. Sang "Down Hearted Blues"
13. Minstrel Shows 1. First American musical and theatrical entertainment
2. Most popular form entertainment in US for a while
3. Embodied racialized sounds and stereotypes
14. Origins of Min- 1. European "quadrille" (White)
strelsy 2. Parody called the Cakewalk (Black)
3. Imitation of Cakewalk (White)
4. Cakewalk becomes signature element of minstrelsy
15. "Jim Crow" 1. Song written by Thomas Darmouth Rice
2. First international hit song
3. Crow was a character (trickster)
4. Good "Negro" - Old slave, not bright, nice
5. Bad "Negro" - From the city, fast talker, untrustworthy
16. Imagined Com- People that imagine themselves as part of a community with people that they will
munity likely never meet
17. Narrative 1. The representation in art of an event or story
2. Part of the mediation process
18.
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