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Question 1

What are the components of Jump Blues blues

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jazz

Question 2

When did jump blues come on scene and why is it significant

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Came on scene in the 1940s and is pivotal to rock and roll

Question 3

Allan Lo Max Field recorder

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recorded sounds of groups of people whose traditions were going extinct

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field hollers

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The musical roots of the blues were spoken or sung shouts between slaves working in the fields and were spititual and work songs of African Americans.

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Spiritualists

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Sang about God during times of Slavery

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Chess Records

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a Chicago record label that specialized in bluesR&B

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Willie Dixon

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“Father of modern Chicago Blues” and played bass and guitar Wrote songs for Muddy Waters

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Howlin’ Wolf Major figure in the Chicago Blues scene

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Major figure in the Chicago Blues scenesigned to Chess Records

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Muddy Waters

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From Mississippi Delta, signed to chess

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WDIA radio station first to switch to an all black music platform (1948)

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KFFA radio station Helena

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Arkansas (walked into the station and asked if they could play live on Radio) King Biscuit time-flower company that sponsored them. Radio show called King Biscuit Time and played blues music.

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Country Music Originally referred to as hillbilly or “old-timey” music

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this genre evolved out of Irish and Scottish folk music

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Hillbilly Folk Characteristics Used found instruments

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the banjo

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WSM radio station Nashville Tennessee

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played hillbilly folk

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Grand Ole Opry The radio program that began broadcasting in 1925 from WSM in Nashville that essentially made that city the center of the country music industry.

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Carter Family first family of country music and played traditional country songs

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Bill Monroe Main instrument is the washboard and is the “Father of Bluegrass”

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Bill Monroe Band His band name was Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys

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Merle Travis Singer songwriter

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FAMOUS guitar style known as travis-picking

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Honky Tonk a beer joint

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associated with drinking music

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Honky Tonk music style Can be slow and sad OR high energy

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party music

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Ernest Tubb One of the first honky-tonk musicians to move toward a harder-edged country sound and to switch to amplified instruments

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Lefty Frizzell “if you’ve got the money

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I’ve got the time” he was a stylist. One of the greats of honky tonk music.

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Kitty Wells Honky Tonk musician

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first female solo star

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Hank Williams Honky Tonk singer-songwriter and musician regarded as among the greatest country music stars of all time.

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12 bar blues AAB form that is 12 measures in length and is more defined by its chord progression. Although this chord progression is common in other forms

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it helped to define the blues.

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Boogie Woogie piano style Up-tempo party music

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popular in the 1930s

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Jazz Originated in New Orleans

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Indie Labels Put out black music that major companies were ignoring

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had a major impact on the rise of R&B

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Rocket 88 The first rock and roll song

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by Ike Turner. when first aired the band was called Jackie Brenton (was the lead singer) and His Delta Cats

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Sam Phillips Lover of Black music

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so he opened his own recording studio to record black musicians

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Sun Records An independent label started in 1952 by Sam Phillips in Memphis.

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Rockabilly Rock and roll mixed with country music

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Elvis From Mississippi

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First celebrity superstar of rock and roll. Began appearing on TV which made rock and roll more famous

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Chuck Berry from Missouri

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the musician who is known as a true architect of rock-and-roll

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Little Richard New Orleans

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Flamboyant

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Jerry Lee Lewis Louisiana

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Boogie Woogie piano player

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Buddy Holly Texas

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True innovator

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Fats Domino New Orleans

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founding father of rock and roll

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Bill Haley Song featured in movie and made it so people associated rock and roll with teenage delinquency

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Carl Perkins Blue Suede Shoes

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known for Rockabilly song style.

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Allan Freed known as Moondog

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was an American disc-jockey. He became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio

Question 43

Where did blues begin the Mississippi Delta Region