MUS 354 Chapter 2 Question and answers rated A+ MUS 354 Chapter 2: Rhythm & Blues 1945-55
Race Records - correct answer -A term that came into use in the early 1920's to describe recordings by African American artists intended for sale primarily in the African American community.
Classic Bl...
MUS 354 Chapter 2: Rhythm & Blues
1945-55
Race Records - correct answer ✔-A term that came into use in the early
1920's to describe recordings by African American artists intended for sale
primarily in the African American community.
Classic Blues - correct answer ✔-popular blues style of the 1920s, which
typically featured a woman singing the blues (ex.Bessie Smith) accompanied
by one+ jazz musicians.
Rhythm and Blues - correct answer ✔a term used since the mid-1940's to
describe African American popular styles, especially those influenced by blues
and/or dance music.
popular music - correct answer ✔Music that appeals to a mass audience, is
intended to have wide appeal, and has a sound and a style distinct from
classical or folk (ie. culturally traditional) music.
shellac records - correct answer ✔-78 rpm (revolutions per minute)
-3 minutes of popular music on 10-inch discs
-4 minutes of classical on 12-inch discs
long playing albums (LPs) - correct answer ✔-1948 Columbia Records
started issuing LP records
-revolved at 33 rpm
-vinyl discs held over 30 minutes of music
-didnt break when dropped
-next year RCA put out 7 in. 45 rpm single, also vinyl, smaller size, 3 minutes
, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) - correct answer ✔-Music licensing
agency formed in 1939 to collect fees on behalf of those clients (blues &
country) not represented by ASCAP
ASCAP - correct answer ✔-American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers
-music licensing agency that represented the pop labels, the old Tin Pan Alley
songwriters, and the "old guard" of the music industry.
Style - correct answer ✔-set of common features found in the music of a
time, place, culture, or individual
Ska - correct answer ✔-strong after beat:strong, crisp chunk on latter part of
beat
-dominant Jamaican popular music through first part of '60's
Chess Brothers - correct answer ✔-1947 bought indie label Aristocrat
Records
-concentrated on music out of pop mainstream
-first releases were jazz & jump band
-over next several years added Muddy Waters & Chuck Berry
Jump Bands - correct answer ✔-In the late 1940's, a small band-rhythm
section plus a few horns that played a rhythm-and-blues style influenced by
big-band swing and electric blues.
-stripped sown & souped up the sound of swing
-kept rhythm section, reduced horns, paring down 3 sections to couple sax &
trumpet
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