History of Rock and Roll (Test 1 UNL)100% ACCURATE
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History of Rock and Roll
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History Of Rock And Roll
Tin Pan Alley - ANSWER The name of the music publishing industry in the first half of the 20th century
Irving Berlin - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
George and Ira Gershwin - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
History of Rock and Roll (Test 1
UNL)100% ACCURATE
Tin Pan Alley - ANSWER The name of the music publishing industry in the first half of the 20th century
Irving Berlin - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
George and Ira Gershwin - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
Richard Rodgers - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
Lorenz Hart - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
Oscar Hammerstein II - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
Cole Porter - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley composer
The first pop singer to create a unique personal style and image - ANSWER Frank Sinatra
Swing Era - ANSWER The period from 1935-1946 when big band jazz was the most popular music in
America
Who was the first star of the "Swing Era?" - ANSWER Benny Goodman
Race Music - ANSWER A catchall term to describe any records or songs by black artists, including "The
Blues" and "R&B"
, Hillbilly Music - ANSWER The traditional old time music of the rural southern United States with origins
in English folk music
Cover - ANSWER A new recording of a charting song
Blues - ANSWER The form music form developed in the Mississippi Delta and other Southern locales in
the late 19th century that incorporates a 12-bar verse, AAB lyric form, and tonalities from the blues
scale.
Work songs, shouts, and field hollers - ANSWER African song forms used to accompany work and other
aspects of everyday life that were adapted by slaves on plantations and southern work camps
Mississippi Delta - ANSWER The 250 mile long area of Mississippi stretching from Memphis south to
Vicksburg. Widely considered the birthplace of the blues
Country Blues - ANSWER The earliest form of the blues, performed by solo male singers accompanying
themselves on guitar
AAB lyric form - ANSWER The format of most blues poetry, in which each verse is comprised of three
lines, the second of which is a repeat of the first.
In 1929, the Depression almost killed the record industry but did kill... - ANSWER The classic blues era
Classic Blues - ANSWER An early form of the blues from the 1920s, sung by female vocalists with small
group backing.
Jazz - ANSWER The music of individual expression whose main characteristics are improvisation and
swing rhythm
Blues Characteristics - ANSWER Emotional, personal lyrics convey feelings of lust, lost love, jealousy,
suffering, hard times, etc.
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