MUNM 387: Chapter 1 QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
2025/2026
New Orleans Style - correct answer ✔✔The first style of jazz that emerged in New Orleans in
the early years of the 20th century characterized by the use of collective improvisation.
Collective Improvisation - correct answer ✔✔The distinctive characteristics of the New Orleans
Style of jazz in which the front line instruments improvise simultaneously.
Creoles of Color - correct answer ✔✔People in New Orleans with a European (usually French)
and African ancestry.
Legislative Code No. 111 - correct answer ✔✔A discriminatory code enacted in Louisiana in
1894 that formally legalized discrimination and segregation.
Chicago Style - correct answer ✔✔A style of jazz that emerged from white bands in Chicago in
the 1920s.
Tin Pan Alley - correct answer ✔✔Describes the music publishing business in the first half of the
20th century and the songs and composing style that resulted from it.
Swing Era - correct answer ✔✔The period from 1935-1946 when jazz (now known as swing)
was thee most popular music in America and at the center of a cultural zeitgeist, which included
dance styles, clothing, fashions, and slang language.
Head Arrangements - correct answer ✔✔An arrangement that is created in a spontaneous
fashion without written music.
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
2025/2026
New Orleans Style - correct answer ✔✔The first style of jazz that emerged in New Orleans in
the early years of the 20th century characterized by the use of collective improvisation.
Collective Improvisation - correct answer ✔✔The distinctive characteristics of the New Orleans
Style of jazz in which the front line instruments improvise simultaneously.
Creoles of Color - correct answer ✔✔People in New Orleans with a European (usually French)
and African ancestry.
Legislative Code No. 111 - correct answer ✔✔A discriminatory code enacted in Louisiana in
1894 that formally legalized discrimination and segregation.
Chicago Style - correct answer ✔✔A style of jazz that emerged from white bands in Chicago in
the 1920s.
Tin Pan Alley - correct answer ✔✔Describes the music publishing business in the first half of the
20th century and the songs and composing style that resulted from it.
Swing Era - correct answer ✔✔The period from 1935-1946 when jazz (now known as swing)
was thee most popular music in America and at the center of a cultural zeitgeist, which included
dance styles, clothing, fashions, and slang language.
Head Arrangements - correct answer ✔✔An arrangement that is created in a spontaneous
fashion without written music.
