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History of rock and roll exam 1 lecture 1 popular music before rock n roll
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History of rock and roll exam 1 lecture 1 popular musicbefore rock n roll
Life in america before rock and roll - answers-no radios,tvs, cds, tapes etc...
If you want to hear music play it yourself.
Local music will have? - answers-minstrel shows
What was white america like? - answers-parents would choose what the family listened
to
What was black america like? - answers-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. - answers-
What is the traveling minstrel show? - answers-traveling mistrel shows is the 1st
indigenous form of american entertainment. Such as comic skits, variety acts, dancing
and music.
Who were the two composers of the tin pan alley? - answers-irving berlin and george
gershwin
What is crooning?
What else do you need in order to be heard? - answers-crooning is a smooth singing
style based on opera but quieter.
You need a microphone in order to be heard.
Who is the first multimedia star who sang "white christmas" using crooning style? -
answers-bing cosby
What is big band/ swing era - answers-big band is a large ensemble that plays jazz
Who were the performers of the minstrel shows? - answers-performed by white people
in black faces.
How were the african americans portrayed in minstrel shows? - answers-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)
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