history of rock and roll exam 1 LECTURE 1 Popular Music Before Rock n Roll Advanced Questions And Correct Detailed Answers.

Life in America before rock and roll - correct answers No radios,TVs, CDs, tapes ETC... IF YOU WANT TO hear music play it yourself. Local music will have? - correct answers Minstrel shows what was White America like? - correct answers Parents would choose what the family listened to what was Black America like? - correct answers till slaves. Music on the plantation in the fields and on the front porch Music during "spiritual meetings" Not much money for musical instruments so they used their voice. Traveling Minstrel shows () date not important. - correct answers What is the Traveling Minstrel Show? - correct answers Traveling Mistrel shows is the 1st Indigenous form of American entertainment. Such as Comic Skits, Variety Acts, dancing and music. Who were the performers of the Minstrel shows? - correct answers Performed by White People in BLACK FACES. How were the African Americans portrayed in Minstrel shows? - correct answers They see them as ignorant, lazy, joyous and musical, very racist. He is a White American composer in the minstrel tradition "Camptown Races" (1850) "Old Kentucky Home" (1853) He also told performers not to mock slaves but garner SYMPATHY. - correct answers Steven Foster __________ district in Manhattan? - correct answersTin Pan Alley it dominated the music publishing industry, sound of pianos and different tunes at once like banging on "tin cans" - correct answersTin Pan Alley Who were the two composers of the TIN PAN ALLEY? - correct answersIrving Berlin and George Gershwin What is Crooning? What else do you need in order to be heard? - correct answersCrooning is a smooth singing style based on opera but quieter. You need a microphone in order to be heard. Who is the first multimedia star who sang "White Christmas" using crooning style? - correct answersBing Cosby What is Big Band/ Swing Era - correct answersBig Band is a large ensemble that plays jazz What instrument do you need in a Big band/ Swing ? - correct answersTrumpets, Trombones, Saxophones and Rhythm section such as bass, drums, piano and guitar. BIG BAND = - correct answersDIXIELAND JAZZ Big Band Used a " shuffle= - correct answersshuffle means swing rhythm feel taken from BLUES MUSIC BIG BANDS INSTRUMENTS ARE FOR? - correct answersFOR SWING DANCE Example of Big Band/ Swing.... "Sing, Sing,Sing" ( feautring Gene Krupa in drums) - correct answersBenny Goodman Orchestra He is inspired by simple British dances like the jig and the Waltz ( usually performed on the fiddle) and folk and hymn tunes - correct answersFiddlin John Carson First country music performer who is a "hillbilly" and to be the first broadcast on radio and recorded on record - correct answersFiddlin John Carson he cut two sldes in 1923, oKeh records president ralph peer called them " pluperfect awful" but sold well - correct answersFliddlin John Carson He is a pioneering musicologist and folklorist Specialized in English Literature at University of Texas - - correct answersJohn Lomax He showed cowboys songs he had written to them to an English professor, only to have them discounted " cheap and unworthy" - correct answersjohn Lomax who had a disc cutting machine installed in trunk of car? - correct answersJohn Lomax First country music superstar - correct answersJimmy Rogers He sang " Singing Brakeman" and "Blue Yodeler" wrote most of his songs. wrote songs about home, family and sweethearts and lives of hoboes. - correct answersJimmy Rogers who is the person who has a unique vocal quality that separates him from other country musicians, very powerful and haunting. his blues- influenced YODELS are second to none in their tone, complexity and ingenuity - correct answersJimmy Rogers Alvin Carter Sara Carter ( ) Maybelle Carter ( ) - correct answersThe Carter family Alvin Carter Sara Carter played autoharp, and guitar Maybelle Carter played guitar who were the family that influenced future country and folk music? - correct answersCarter Family they were first to record tight vocal harmonies also Maybelles distinctive and innovate guitar playing? - correct answersCarter Family Began as WSM Barn dance they featured fiddlers, square dance musc, always searching for local and rural talent. - correct answersThe Grand Ole Opry This show is the longest running radio broadcast in history Defined American Country music for most Americans... - correct answersThe Grand Ole Opry what type of genre am i ? Combined country music, polkas and square dance music with jazzy swing. - correct answersWestern Swing what type of Genre am i? Used fiddles (violin) acoustic and pedal steel guitar drums and horns. - correct answersWestern Swing under western dance... and First to record with TEXAS PLAYBOYS - correct answersBob WIllis Who is the first singing cowboy? - correct answersGene Autry Lonesome high register tenor vocals accompanied by acoustic guitar He is a star on radio, in films and later on television He is the " Americas Favorite Singing Cowboy" he stars in the film tumbleweeds, creating the musical western genre and popularizing the cowboy song - correct answers He is the only artist to date to receive stars in all five possible categories: motion pictures, radio, recording, television and live theater - correct answers Gene Autry.