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History of Rock and Roll Test 1 (Chapters 1-6): Qs & As

Popular music Right Ans - simple, catchy music that everyone likes

Copyright Right Ans - the exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an
assignee to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical
material, and to authorize others to do the same.

What does syncopated mean? Right Ans - off the main beat (off-beats)

What was Tin Pan Alley? Right Ans - street in NYC where simple,
memorable, easy songs like "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" were published

Vaudeville shows Right Ans - variety shows with dancing, singing, comedy,
and magic acts that often travelled around

Arrangements Right Ans - written down sheet music for musicians to play
from

Describe the blues: Right Ans - sad songs with African slave influence that
often utilized signifying, improvisation, bent notes, and the 12 bar blue form

What does signifying mean? Right Ans - to add double or hidden meanings
to lyrics, emerging from slave songs and present in music genres like the
blues, soul, and etc.

What are blue notes? Right Ans - notes bent down common in Blues music

12 bar blues form Right Ans - standard song form developed by Blues
singers in 1900s, also known as AAB format

What's a bottleneck and how was is used? Right Ans - top of a glass bottle
used to play the melody, often by blues artists

What's a crooner? Right Ans - falsetto singers that often amplify vocals

Who sings Country blues? Who accompanies them? Right Ans - male
singers with no accompaniment

, Who sings Classic blues? Who accompanies them? Right Ans - female
singers with band

Jazz began in what US city? Right Ans - new orleans

What does overdubbing mean? Right Ans - layering of tracks that allowed
musicians to play each instrument separately and then layer together

What's a backbeat? Right Ans - off beats - - beats 2 and 4 - - weak beats

Describe urban blues: How did the guitar change in urban blues? Right Ans
- country blues brought to the city and played with electric guitars

Howlin' Wolf played the guitar and the blues harp, also called the
___________________ Right Ans - harmonica

Why did many blues artists relocate to northern US cities like Chicago?
Right Ans - war time, less discrimination

Chess Records Right Ans - chicago-based independent label that recorded
both races featuring Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Bo Didley

Lyrics of rhythm and blues songs vs lyrics of blues songs Right Ans - blues
= sad, slower tempo
r&b= more upbeat, more sexualized

Boogie-woogie piano style Right Ans - highly energetic piano style
popularized by those like Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis

Riffs Right Ans - small sections of a medley or main lines repeated in a
song, often by the guitar part

Bo Diddley - the Bo Diddley beat Right Ans - playing of the chords in a
rhythmic manner

Spirituals - how they were different for whites/African Americans Right
Ans - religious folk songs - - for blacks it originated with slave culture and
contained signified messages

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