Music Genres
Music genre originated in Southern African-American culture and incorporating slides, scoops, bend, microtonal third, and AAB form.
What is the blues?
Trumpet player & vocalist who developed “hot” jazz, known for his iconic voice
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Scarface, gangster and bootlegger
Who is Al Capone?
The legal prevention of the manufacture, sale & transportation of alcohol
What is prohibition?
Secret bars where people gathered during prohibition times
What are speakeasies?
Music genre developed in New Orleans and spread by Louis Armstrong that is emotionally intense and features a lot of improvisation
What is hot jazz?
Cornet & piano player who died at 28 of alcoholism
Who is Bix Beiderbecke?
Yankee's baseball player who was nicknamed The Sultan of Swat
Who is Babe Ruth?
Women with short hair who wore dresses with dropped hemlines & embraced an independent, outrageous lifestyle
Who are flappers?
1924 comic strip about a cartoon girl
What is Little Orphan Annie?
Music genre that is a fusion of jazz's rhythmic and instrumental characteristics with the scale and structure of a symphony. George Gershwin is a big composer in this genre.
What is orchestral jazz?
Jazz musician who used stride piano
Who is Fats Waller?
29th President who died of a heart attack
Who is Warren G. Harding?
This popular jazz dance style involves the fast-paced swinging of the legs and big arm movements
What is The Charleston?
Jacob Schick hygiene invention
What is the electric razor?
Music genre that influenced hot jazz & orchestral jazz, is sometimes used with blues and stride piano, early piano style
What is ragtime?
First vocalist to record the blues
First to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
The sudden sharp decline of market values in 1929
Stock Market Crash
Short, curled hairstyle that flappers wore
What is marcel waves?
Music genre that follows traditional Western forms and characteristics of music making
What is classical orchestral?
French Composer of Bolero
Who is Maurice Ravel?
30th president that took over when Harding had a heart attack
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Worldwide economic downturn caused by the Stock Market Crash
The Great Depression
Broadcast innovation from 1922
What is the first radio station?