MBU 2130_Dr. Cusic STUDY GUIDE
EXAM 1D questions n answers
"After the Ball" - ANS ✔✔Charles K. Harris
1892
Waltz
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" - ANS ✔✔Irving Berlin
1911
Ragtime Song
"Oh, How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning" - ANS ✔✔Irving Berlin
1942
"This is the Army Mr. Jones"
"Over There" - ANS ✔✔song by George M. Cohan which became unofficial anthem of World
War I; showed confidence most Americans felt that we could do what no one else could do, win
the war
"Auld Lang Syne" - ANS ✔✔a traditional Scottish song, customarily sung on New Year's Eve; the
title means "Old time past."
"Crazy Blues" - ANS ✔✔Mamie Smith, 1920; first recording of the blues (and with a female
singer); sold 2 million copies (majority African American) and piqued the interest of record
labels because they saw that there was a market for black music (and a need for black female
blues artists).
,1820s - ANS ✔✔musical instruments began to be manufactured in the U.S.
1877
1909 Copyright Law - ANS ✔✔much money as a royalty payment
28 years initial could be renewed for an additional 28 years(56 total)
19th & early 20th centuries - ANS ✔✔way to get national exposure for a song
19th century royalty rates publishers paid songwriters
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" - ANS ✔✔African-American songwriter co-wrote
Al Jolson - ANS ✔✔A vaudeville performer who starred in the first sound movie and enthralled
people with his amazing performance of singing, dancing, and speech that no one had ever
experienced.
Alexander Graham Bell - ANS ✔✔credited with patenting the first practical telephone
co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885
American city that became the center for music publishing - ANS ✔✔New York
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) - ANS ✔✔American not-for-
profit performance-rights organization that collectively licenses the public performance rights of
its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services
February 13, 1914
, Headquarters: New York, New York
Amos'n Andy - ANS ✔✔A comedy on the radio that created humorous and demeaning images
of urban Blacks.
area in New York where songwriters and publishers were located - ANS ✔✔Tin Pan Alley
AT&T - ANS ✔✔American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885
Bandleader known as the "King of Jazz" and "married Jazz to Classical music" - ANS ✔✔Paul
"Pops" Whiteman
bandleader who worked with the dancing Castles - ANS ✔✔James Reese Europe
began the Victor Talking Machine Company - ANS ✔✔Eldridge Johnson
Berliner's major contribution to the early recording industry - ANS ✔✔Emile Berliner invented
the gramophone
biggest "hit" of the 1890s - ANS ✔✔"After the Ball" by Charles K. Harris
billed as "the World's Greatest Entertainer" - ANS ✔✔Al Jolson (starred in the jazz singer)
Bing Crosby - ANS ✔✔Voice of the 1930s
Bristol, Tennessee - ANS ✔✔where the 1st important country music recordings were made
EXAM 1D questions n answers
"After the Ball" - ANS ✔✔Charles K. Harris
1892
Waltz
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" - ANS ✔✔Irving Berlin
1911
Ragtime Song
"Oh, How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning" - ANS ✔✔Irving Berlin
1942
"This is the Army Mr. Jones"
"Over There" - ANS ✔✔song by George M. Cohan which became unofficial anthem of World
War I; showed confidence most Americans felt that we could do what no one else could do, win
the war
"Auld Lang Syne" - ANS ✔✔a traditional Scottish song, customarily sung on New Year's Eve; the
title means "Old time past."
"Crazy Blues" - ANS ✔✔Mamie Smith, 1920; first recording of the blues (and with a female
singer); sold 2 million copies (majority African American) and piqued the interest of record
labels because they saw that there was a market for black music (and a need for black female
blues artists).
,1820s - ANS ✔✔musical instruments began to be manufactured in the U.S.
1877
1909 Copyright Law - ANS ✔✔much money as a royalty payment
28 years initial could be renewed for an additional 28 years(56 total)
19th & early 20th centuries - ANS ✔✔way to get national exposure for a song
19th century royalty rates publishers paid songwriters
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" - ANS ✔✔African-American songwriter co-wrote
Al Jolson - ANS ✔✔A vaudeville performer who starred in the first sound movie and enthralled
people with his amazing performance of singing, dancing, and speech that no one had ever
experienced.
Alexander Graham Bell - ANS ✔✔credited with patenting the first practical telephone
co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885
American city that became the center for music publishing - ANS ✔✔New York
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) - ANS ✔✔American not-for-
profit performance-rights organization that collectively licenses the public performance rights of
its members' musical works to venues, broadcasters, and digital streaming services
February 13, 1914
, Headquarters: New York, New York
Amos'n Andy - ANS ✔✔A comedy on the radio that created humorous and demeaning images
of urban Blacks.
area in New York where songwriters and publishers were located - ANS ✔✔Tin Pan Alley
AT&T - ANS ✔✔American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1885
Bandleader known as the "King of Jazz" and "married Jazz to Classical music" - ANS ✔✔Paul
"Pops" Whiteman
bandleader who worked with the dancing Castles - ANS ✔✔James Reese Europe
began the Victor Talking Machine Company - ANS ✔✔Eldridge Johnson
Berliner's major contribution to the early recording industry - ANS ✔✔Emile Berliner invented
the gramophone
biggest "hit" of the 1890s - ANS ✔✔"After the Ball" by Charles K. Harris
billed as "the World's Greatest Entertainer" - ANS ✔✔Al Jolson (starred in the jazz singer)
Bing Crosby - ANS ✔✔Voice of the 1930s
Bristol, Tennessee - ANS ✔✔where the 1st important country music recordings were made
