history of rock and roll exam 1 LECTURE 1 Popular Music Before Rock n Roll Questions and Answers
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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 Questions and
Answers
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
it dominated the music publishing industry, sound of pianos and different tunes at once
like banging on "tin cans" - ANSWER-Tin Pan Alley
Who were the two composers of the TIN PAN ALLEY? - ANSWER-Irving Berlin and
George Gershwin
What is Crooning?
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