History of Rock n Roll (Exam 1)COMPLETE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(GRADED A)
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What enabled teens to continue consuming Rock n Roll despite their parents' objections? - ANSWER It further separated themselves from adult society.
Forbidden to read & write, what became central to communication in slave communities? What emerged from this legacy? - ANSWER Singing and story tel...
History of Rock n Roll (Exam 1)COMPLETE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS(GRADED A)
What enabled teens to continue consuming Rock n Roll despite their parents' objections? - ANSWER It
further separated themselves from adult society.
Forbidden to read & write, what became central to communication in slave communities? What
emerged from this legacy? - ANSWER Singing and story telling
Rap
What accounts for American's economic boom after WWII? - ANSWER - Pent-up consumerism (caused
by war rationing, hold on to purchases during Great Depression)
- Exploded a lot of buying
According to Frederick Douglass, when and why did slaves sing? - ANSWER Slaves sang when they're
most unhappy.. it represents their sorrows of the heart.
What migration took place after WWII? What were its consequences? - ANSWER The post-war migration
to suburbs...
The consequences were declining public services and decaying infrastructures in the inner-cities.
What did not end with the Civil War? - ANSWER Racial prejudice
Describe the interracial relations of the South and what it produced. - ANSWER displaced peoples lived
in the South -- hillbillies, cajuns, blacks, southern whites -- they did get along but were integrated -- that
is why you had to have segregations laws on the in the south -- also the displaced people created a
musical transculturation
Why did "Jim Crow" laws exist only in the South? - ANSWER They were already segregated by schools,
parks, and other public facilities.
, What was the audience for rhythm & blues before the 1950s? - ANSWER African Americans
What happened to "uppity" blacks in the South? - ANSWER Lynched and beaten
In "Rock Begins," what does Palmer say John Lomax attempted to do in the 1930s? - ANSWER Lomax
tried to preserve folksongs by going to the rural south and recording musicians including black convicts
What did the Navy Secretary ask the President to do? What happened to jazz as a result of this? -
ANSWER to shut down Storyville... Musician's jobs dried up and jazz was taken to Kansas city, St. Louis,
and Chicago.
In "Elvis Presley," what does Guralnick say the "official" packaging of Elvis leave out? - ANSWER Left out
the drive and consuming ambition.
How is Count Basie's music different from those of other Swing Era bands? - ANSWER She played blues
infused music.
What was the richest state in the U.S. in 1860? What is the poorest state today? - ANSWER Mississippi
Who gravitated to Bebop? Who listened to jazz after Bebop? - ANSWER Jazz musicians. Musicians and
jazz aficionados
Who opened up a recording studio in Memphis to record talented musicians, especially blacks, then
wound up recording Elvis Presley's 1st songs on his Sun Records label? - ANSWER Sam Phillips
What kind of music did W.C. Handy hear at the train station? What did he do with that music? - ANSWER
(W.C. Handy was a college educated bandleader)
An itinerant blues musician
Publish a string of blues, known as the Father of Blues, and became rich because of the blues.
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