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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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What is the title and artist of this song?

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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair- Stephen Foster

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What is the title/artist of this song?

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After The Ball-Stephen Foster

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What is the title/artist?

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Castle House Rag-James Reese Europe

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4
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What is the title/artist?

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Tiger Rag- Original Dixieland Jazz Band

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5
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What is the title/artist?

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West End Blues- Louis Armstrong

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What is the title/artist?

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My Blue Heaven- Gene Austin

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What is the title/artist?

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St. Louis Blues- W.C. Handy

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What is the title/artist?

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Black Snake Moan- Blind Lemon Jefferson

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9
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What is the title/artist?

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The Gospel Ship- Carter Family

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10
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What was the era of 1840’s-1860’s called?

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Antebellum Era

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11
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Where did minstrelsy begin?

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The Bowery, New York City

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12
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What decade did the Civil War occur?

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1860’s

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13
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What music tradition came out of the civil war?

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Marching Band Tradition

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14
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What is uniquely important about Stephen Foster?

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1st full-time popular songwriter in America

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15
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Who’s the most famous marching band leader?

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John Philip Sousa

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16
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Where did Tin Pan Alley originate?

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New York City

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17
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What kind of music did TPA produce?

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Sheet music

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18
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Most popular middle class instrument?

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Piano

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19
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When was the phonograph invented?

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1877

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20
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When was the Jazz era?

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Late 1800’s-early 1900’s

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21
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What is the father of jazz?

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Ragtime

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22
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Famous ragtime composer?

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Scott Joplin

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23
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Where is Jazz happening?

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New Orleans

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24
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Where did jazz get their instruments?

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The marching band

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25
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What is a front and second line?

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Jazz lines derived from a new orleans funeral

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26
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Who is Jelly Roll Morton?

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Claimed he “invented jazz”. Tries to evoke the feeling of a New Orleans Style funeral

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27
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What is collective improvisation?

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Multiple solos occuring simultaneously

28
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Most important record company of the 20th century?

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Okeh Records

29
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Who is Louis Armstrong?

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Best jazz musician and trumpet player ever

30
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Who were the Castles?

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Vernon and Irene taught ballroom dance in 6 steps or less across the nation

31
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Who was the Castles bandleader and why was he problematic?

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Their bandleader was James Reece Europe; he was problematic because he was a popular and successful African-American

32
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What is rising in popularity in the early 20’s?

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Commercial radio and the microphone

33
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What is crooning and why is it possible?

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A sweet whisper style of singing that is possible due to the invention of the microphone

34
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How is TPA transforming?

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AABA (slow intro)

35
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Why was the Original Dixieland Jazz Band problematic?

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They were white and racist. They claimed jazz didn’t need African-Americans. They were the first to get recorded.

36
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What is the 18th amendment and how did it impact music?

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Prohibition; forced popular music into speakeasies

37
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What was The Great Migration?

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Move of mostly rural southern African-Americans into northern industrial centers

38
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What are race records?

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Encompasses Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, etc. Originally not a racial slur, but something positive.

39
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Where did the Country Blues originate?

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The Mississippi Delta

40
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What’s the difference between the country blues and classic blues?

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Classic blues is more commodified with phenomenal singers and guitarists.

41
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What is a blue note?

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Singer stays between the actual notes. Seems soulful and emotional but is actually due to physics.

42
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What’s the 12-Bar Blues?

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Repeated AAB chord pattern

43
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What is the hallmark of country blues?

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Acoustic guitar

44
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What is catharsis?

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Emotional release

45
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Who is W.C. Handy?

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He commodifies the country blues into classic blues. He’s “the father of classic blues.”

46
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How did Hillbilly music originate?

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Due to train changeover traffic in Bristol, V.A. Found by a plugger from TPA on accident.

47
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Why is Bristol, V.A. important?

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It’s the birthplace of country music

48
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Who is Maybelle Carter and why is she unique?

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She’s one of the best female guitarists in history

49
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Who is Jimmie Rogers?

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A railroad hand that sings AAB and eventually has a successful solo

50
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What is syncopatio?

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Accenting the offbeat

51
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What was the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character?

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Minstelsy

52
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Which White actor invented the minstrel character “Jim Crow?”

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Thomas Dartmouth Rice

53
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Which of the following became the conductor of the U.S. Marine Band?

A

John Philip Sousa

54
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Which White banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels?

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Dan Emmett

55
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Which of the following was a well-known composer of plantation songs and the first successful black American songwriter?

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James Bland

56
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Who invented the phonograph?

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Thomas Alva Edison

57
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Which song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Band sold 2 million copies and featured the Swanee whistle (slide whistle), a novelty that helped sell the record?

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Whispering

58
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Which film, released in 1927, became the first to exploit sound successfully?

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The Jazz Singer

59
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Which of the following became the first nationwide commercial radio network in 1926?

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NBC

60
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Which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the years around World War I?

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Vernon and Irene Castle

61
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Which ensemble recorded “Dippermouth Blues?”

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Creole Jazz Band

62
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Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917?

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Original Dixieland Jazz Band

63
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One of the biggest celebrities of the 1920-1930s was the singer who starred in “The Jazz Singer.” Who was he?

A

Al Jolson

64
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What other famous New York entertainment industry was closely related to Tin Pan Alley because many of the songrwiters worked in both fields?

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Broadway

65
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Perhaps the most prolific songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley era, and the composer who wrote the song “Blue Skies” for “The Jazz Singer,” was?

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Irving Berlin

66
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Tin Pan Alley songs that have withstood the test of time have become known as:

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Standards

67
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Inart 115 Exam 1 (2 decks)

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