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| The term "blues" and the music it describes began in what century |
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| What style of music is the music of the black church? |
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| Who is the first popular man to record authentic southern black "country" music? |
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| What were jugs in the jug bands? |
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| Large jugs used as brass instruments |
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| Who recorded Crazy Blues, the first recorded Blues song in 1920? |
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| True or False: Women recorded blues for several years before men did. |
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| How was country blues generally different than city blues in the 1920's? |
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| Country blues was usually a solo musician, instead of music played by a group of musicians |
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| Where did most blues women begin their proffessional careers in the early days of blues? |
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| The first sales of blues music on records opened an entirely new market of black music for black consumers. What is this market called by the record industry before 1948? |
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| Who was known as the Empress of the Blues? |
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| Which three regions are considered important style centers in down home country blues? |
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| Mississippi Delta, Peidmont Carolinas, and Texas |
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| What brought many blacks to the Mississippi Delta where the Delta blues style would grow? |
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| Which two music style characteristics are identified only with Mississippi Delta blues? |
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| Percussive use of guitar, Bottleneck guitar |
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| The most well known style associated with the Bottleneck slide is: |
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| What was Robert Johnson's fabled connection with the devil? |
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| He sold his soul for talent |
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| True or False: Some down-home blues artists were also preachers. |
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| What blues style are BBQ Bob, Sonny Terry, and Blind Willie Mctell associated with? |
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| Which two music style characteristics are most common in Peidmont Blues music and performance?? |
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| Soloist with 12 string guitar, and Symcopated rhythms ala Ragtime |
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| Who was responsible for packaging the album Robert Johnson, King of the Delta Blues Singers? |
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| True or False: The Term Gospel Music was invented by Thomas A Dorsey |
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| True or False: The number of churches provided more opportunities for gospel groups than secular artists through the 1960's. |
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| True or False: Early Soul Gospel music was called "Jubilee Style". |
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| What Chicago based record label recorded Electric Blues artists like Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf? |
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| Who were Phil and Leonard Chess? |
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| Polish immigrant brothers who owned nightclubs in South Chicago and started Chess Records |
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| Which artist is best known for his blues harp playing? |
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| What blues style are Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Willie Dixon, and Sonny Boy Williamson most associated with? |
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| What Texas blues artist injected Jazz riffs and progressions into his blues, influencing blues artists since? |
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| As the Delta People moved into Chicago, where did the country people of Texas migrate, taking Texas style Blues along? |
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| Describe Hard Gospel Music of the late 40's and 50's. |
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| Two lead singers trading high energy passionate screams with upbeat hypnotic rhythms |
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| What style do Five Blind Boys of Alabama represent? |
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| Why was gospel singer and guitarist Sister Rosetta Thorpe controversial? |
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| Because her gospel flirted with secular music in clubs and her association with a crossover artist |
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| What Blues style are Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, and Stevie Ray Vaughan associated with?" |
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| What even cut Stevie Ray Vaghan's career short? |
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| Died in a helicopter crash |
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| Who were the main Peidmont blues artists? |
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| Blind Willie Mctell, BBQ Bob |
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| Who were the main Texas blues artists? |
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| T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Stevie Ray Vaghan |
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| Who were the main Chicago blues artists? |
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| Muddy Waers, Willie Dixon |
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| Who were the main Delta blues artists? |
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| Where did most of Americas pop songs come from in the years 1890-1930? |
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| The term Broadway is used interchangeably with: |
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| True or False: The Broadway district still exists in New York City |
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| Before the Rock and Roll Pop revolution, what was considered by the music business to be the most important quality for a successful song by publishers and record labels? |
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| Where is New York's Broadway theatre district today? |
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| On Broadway between 42nd and 54th streets |
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| What type of shows were mounted accross the country on small stages with small casts that first opened opportunities for black musicians in the 1800's? |
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| What turn of the century piano style was popularized by minstrel shows that was crucial in early JJazz? |
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| British team Gilbert and Sullivan were immensely popular in New York through the early 20th century. What category of entertainment does their work fall? |
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| What type of staged entertainment of the late 1800's contained a lineup of 10 acts by a group of entertainers, acrobats, family acts, musicains, comedians, jugglers, magicians, and trained animals? |
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| Which type of pre musical entertainment genres functioned like a Vaudeville, but had more daring material including strippers? |
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| A song-and-dance show comprised of hit songs |
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| True or False: Broadway shows before the 1930's tended to be plotless strings of unrelated songs with extravegant choreography. |
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| What immigrant and/or underclass groups were the predominant creative sources for popular music from about 1900 to 1950? |
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| Jews and African Americans |
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| George Gershwin became famous for his upbeat, witty shows and film scores, but is best remembered for his opera masterpeice of 1935 called: |
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| Which songwriter was a Russian immigrant and starting in 1911, wrote a series of smash hits including God Bless America? |
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| What event led to the financial demise of Tin Pan Alley and their subsequent sale to Hollywood studios? |
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