chapter 34.1: blues music

Question 1

american musical theatre and popular song

Answer 1

1920s, rich time for american popular music

Question 2

1920 - 1955 is the ___________ of tin pan alley

Answer 2

golden age

Question 3

show boat (1927) by ___________

Answer 3

jerome kern (1885 -1945)

Question 3

irving berlin (1888 - 1989)

Answer 3

one of america’s most prolific, best-loved popular songwriters

Question 4

cole porter (1891 - 1964)

Answer 4

educated in music at yale, harvard, schola cantorun in paris

Question 4

george gershwin (1898 - 1937)

Answer 4

composed jazz-influenced classical music

Question 4

i got rhythm by george gershwin is composed for _________

Answer 4

girl crazy (1930)

Question 5

the jazz age

Answer 5

1920s

Question 5

blues

Answer 5

one of the most influential genres of early twentieth-century america

Question 6

classic blues

Answer 6

urban style, influencesd by popular music, first to be recorded

Question 7

classic blues

Answer 7

rural traditions, known as country blues, regarded as older style

Question 8

w.c. handy (1873 - 1958)

Answer 8

father of the blues, solidified standard twelve-bar blues form

Question 9

bessie smith (1894 - 1937)

Answer 9

empress of the blues

Question 10

st. louis blues (1929) is a song by

Answer 10

bessie smith