Art
A term when applied to art or aesthetics that refers to an over the top or exaggerated quality that includes an ironic embrace of bad taste or tackiness
What is camp?
The steady pulse that underlies most music?
What is the beat?
v = λf
What is wave velocity?
The mass movement of 6 million African Americans from 1920-1970
What is the Great Migration?
The poet who wrote "The Weary Blues"
Who is Langston Hughes?
The primary material of Frank Llyod Wright's Los Angeles houses
What is concrete?
When a solo leader presents a motif and the chorus responds by either echoing the motif or with a contrasting "answer"
What is a call-and-response pattern?
A current that is constantly switching directions
What is an alternating current (AC)?
The peace agreement at the end of WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Great Gatsby character who is more of an observer than a participant, but also has strong opinions and sometimes will even believe the best in people when they don't deserve it
Who is Nick Carraway?
What is Futurism?
The first Black-owned record company
What is the Black Swan?
Something that does not allow electrons to move freely, such as plastic or rubber
What is an insulator?
The founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Word used to describe authors and socialites who moved away from American such as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Gerald and Sarah Murphy
What is "expats"?
Title of the most famous statue from the Old Stone Age known for their exaggerated bellies, breasts, and pubic areas and undefined facial features, arms, and feet
What is the Venus (or Woman) of Willendorf?
(c. 28,000-25,000 BCE)
The lowest of the three notes in a triad
What is the root?
A system of two equal and opposite charges separated by a small distance
What is an electric dipole?
U.S. House of Representative member from Montana, and the first woman elected to federal office in the United States
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
Poet plagued by mental illness and addictions throughout his life, ultimately culminating in his death by suicide in 1932
Who is Hart Crane?
Artwork that has been described as having an "organic, octopus-like form" (title and artist)
What is The Lawrence Tree by Georgia O'Keeffe?
The name of Al Jolson's character in The Jazz Singer
Who is Jack Robin?
Man who discovered that a wire with current creates a magnetic field in 1820
Who is Hans Christian Oested?
Court case centered around the teaching of evolution in schools
What is The Scopes Trial?
Piece this quote is from:
"For a transitory enchanted moment. man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood or desired, face to face, for the last time in history with something commensurate with his capacity for wonder."
What is The Great Gatsby?