People
Tin Pan Alley
Jazz
Miscellaneous
100

George Gerswhin is remembered for fusing Classical, Broadway, and this style of music:

Tin Pan Alley

100

Tin Pan Alley was located here

New York City

100

This is the city where jazz began

New Orleans, Louisiana

100

During the Prohibition of the 1920s, this was banned

Alchohol

200

This singer and actor famous for hits like "White Christmas," was one of the first crooners

Bing Crosby

200

What industry had its home in Tin Pan Alley

Sheet Music Publishing

200

Jazz fused the musical traditions of Black, White, and ________ cultures around 1900

Creole

200

The creation of a national popular culture is due in large part to this technology of the 1920s

Radio

300

Vernon & Irene Castle were icons during WWI for popularizing this pastime:

Ballroom dance

300

This style of softer, more intimate singing was made possible by the invention of the microphone

Crooning

300

This is the term for improvising a solo without words in jazz

Scat singing

300

This is the acronym for the musician's union that was formed in 1914 to pay royalties to composers when their music was played for live entertainment

ASCAP

400

This Black musician started New York's Clef Club and was part of the Harlem Hellfighters in WWI; he is credited with bringing Jazz to Europe.

James Reese Europe

400

What group of people were predominant in composing and publishing Tin Pan Alley music?

Jewish American immigrants

400

This New Orleans-born trumpet player and singer was the most recognizable jazz musician in the world for decades

Louis Armstrong

400

This was the term used for any place that had live music shows and sold food & drinks in the years between WWI & WWII

Cabaret

500

This Cuban bandleader led the Havana Casino Club in New York City.  His band's recording of El Manicero was a top song in 1931.

Don Azpiazú

500

This is the name for standard songs of the Tin Pan Alley genre (still used today, especially in jazz)

Great American Songbook

500

This Black jazz composer & bandleader spent years at the Cotton Club in Harlem.  His main instrument was piano and he is credited with inventing the "jungle sound."

Duke Ellington

500

The stock market crashed in this year, starting the Great Depression

1929

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