History of Rock and Roll Test 1 Questions & Answers 100%
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History of Rock and Roll
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History Of Rock And Roll
Alan Freed - ANSWER Who coined the term 'Rock 'n' Roll' as a Cleveland disc jockey?
Alan Freed - ANSWER Who began broadcasting rhythm and blues & country for a multiracial audience?
Rag Time - ANSWER What music style used syncopated rhythm (authentic black style) combined with black innova...
History of Rock and Roll Test 1
Questions & Answers 100%
Alan Freed - ANSWER Who coined the term 'Rock 'n' Roll' as a Cleveland disc jockey?
Alan Freed - ANSWER Who began broadcasting rhythm and blues & country for a multiracial
audience?
Rag Time - ANSWER What music style used syncopated rhythm (authentic black style) combined
with black innovation (white response)?
Scott Joplin - ANSWER Who was known for the piano bar tune, "Maple Leaf Rag" which was
important for the development of blues & jazz?
Race & Hillbilly Music - ANSWER Rock & Roll developed in the subcultures of what type of music?
Race Music - ANSWER This type of music attracted blacks during the late 1800s and early 1900s but
wasn't played on the radio til the 1940's
Bessie Smith - ANSWER This famous Race Music musician was known for singing, "The Empress of
the Blues," "St. Louis Blues," & "Empty Bed Blues"
Old-time/ Hillbilly Music - ANSWER This type of music performed by & intended for sale to rural
southern whites. It reflected the traditions and values of performers.
Old-time/ Hillbilly Music - ANSWER Early radio played a major role in the popularity of this type of
music; first broadcast was in Atlanta in 1922
Jazz Music - ANSWER This type of music started in NOLA
Billie Holiday - ANSWER Who sang "Strange Fruit" - song about racial lynching?
, Woody Guthrie - ANSWER Famous 'Folk Music' artist that sang "This Land is Your Land"
Frank Sinatra - ANSWER Who was a Rock & Roll star before Rock & Roll?
Hank Williams - ANSWER Known for his vital role in Hillbilly music, this man paved the way for 3
generations to follow in his footsteps musically
Hank Williams - ANSWER His most well known songs include "Honky Tonkin'" and "Hey Good
Lookin"
Jazz Music - ANSWER This type of music adapted the sensibility of blues and formed a rhythm
section as a backbeat
Frank Sinatra - ANSWER Who combined jazz, broadway and tin pan alley music in the 1940s and
thus, revolutionizing pop?
Frank Sinatra - ANSWER His album, 'Wee Small Hours' competed against Rock & Roll music and was
later listed on Rolling Stones' 100 greatest albusm of all time.
Frank Sinatra - ANSWER This person once called Rock & Roll "the most brutal, ugly, desperate,
vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear"
Mississippi Delta Blues - ANSWER This name is given to the 2 musicians who were born before
Robert Johnson, but their careers took off after
Lead Belly and Son House - ANSWER These 2 men were apart of the Mississippi Delta Blues
Highway 61 - ANSWER Known as 'The Blues Highway' and was later a title for one of Bob Dylan's
albums
Highway 61 - ANSWER Duluth, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and NOLA are all part of ____?
The Crossroads - ANSWER This was the name of the location in Clarksdale, Miss. where Robert
Johnson had a 'meeting with the devil'
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