history of rock and roll exam 1 LECTURE 1 Popular Music Before Rock n Roll CORRECT 100%
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History of Rock and Roll
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History Of Rock And Roll
Life in America before rock and roll - ANSWER No radios,TVs, CDs, tapes ETC...
IF YOU WANT TO hear music play it yourself.
Local music will have? - ANSWER Minstrel shows
what was White America like? - ANSWER Parents would choose what the family listened to
what was Black America like? - A...
history of rock and roll exam 1 LECTURE
1 Popular Music Before Rock n Roll
CORRECT 100%
Life in America before rock and roll - ANSWER No radios,TVs, CDs, tapes ETC...
IF YOU WANT TO hear music play it yourself.
Local music will have? - ANSWER Minstrel shows
what was White America like? - ANSWER Parents would choose what the family listened to
what was Black America like? - ANSWER Still slaves.
Music on the plantation in the fields and on the front porch
Music during "spiritual meetings"
Not much money for musical instruments so they used their voice.
Traveling Minstrel shows (1830-1900) date not important. - ANSWER
What is the Traveling Minstrel Show? - ANSWER Traveling Mistrel shows is the 1st Indigenous form of
American entertainment. Such as Comic Skits, Variety Acts, dancing and music.
Who were the performers of the Minstrel shows? - ANSWER Performed by White People in BLACK
FACES.
How were the African Americans portrayed in Minstrel shows? - ANSWER They see them as ignorant,
lazy, joyous and musical, very racist.
, He is a White American composer in the minstrel tradition "Camptown Races" (1850) "Old Kentucky
Home" (1853)
He also told performers not to mock slaves but garner SYMPATHY. - ANSWER Steven Foster
__________ district in Manhattan? - ANSWER Tin Pan Alley
First country music performer who is a "hillbilly" and to be the first broadcast on radio and recorded on
record - ANSWER Fiddlin John Carson
he cut two sldes in 1923, oKeh records president ralph peer called them " pluperfect awful" but sold well
- ANSWER Fliddlin John Carson
He is a pioneering musicologist and folklorist
Specialized in English Literature at University of Texas
- - ANSWER John Lomax
He showed cowboys songs he had written to them to an English professor, only to have them discounted
" cheap and unworthy" - ANSWER john Lomax
who had a disc cutting machine installed in trunk of car? - ANSWER John Lomax
First country music superstar - ANSWER Jimmy Rogers
He sang " Singing Brakeman" and "Blue Yodeler"
wrote most of his songs.
wrote songs about home, family and sweethearts and lives of hoboes. - ANSWER Jimmy Rogers
who is the person who has a unique vocal quality that separates him from other country musicians, very
powerful and haunting.
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