1940s music
Define a patriotic song.
What is a song that expresses devotion to a person's country.
This war happened in the 1940s.
What is World War II.
Name three famous musicians from the 1950s popular music.
Who are any of these: Elivs, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis
These are other non-pop styles of music that were popular in the 1950s.
What is classical, blues, jazz, and sentimental music.
This is the old record player that grandparents still used in the 1940s.
What is the Victrola.
This person sang, "Fly Me to the Moon."
Who is Frank Sinatra
This economic disastor occured in the 1930s, leading up to that war.
What is the Great Depression.
Parents did not like Elvis because of these moves he made.
What are his shaking hips and curled lip.
This war started in the 1950s and drafted Elvis to the military.
What is the Korean War.
During the depression, this is how many people heard live music.
The four main styles of music in the 1940s.
What is jazz, blues, crooners, and patriotic music.
Name two ways that the USA was pulled out the Depression.
What are war bonds and military factories making military munitions.
This person became a preacher and stopped performing (for a few years) at the end of the 1950s.
Who is Little Richard.
These are the main people who loved the popular music of the 1950s.
Who are teenagers.
The main instrument in popular music before the electric guitar.
What is the piano.
This person was the mascot for working women in the 1940s.
Who is Rosie the Riveter.
This person went to jail at the end of the 1950s and stopped performing for a while.
Who is Chuck Berry.
These are style choices that the popular musicians of the 1950s did that were different from the crooners.
What are they had long hair, they were not considered respectable, they were not clean cut in suits.
These are the two big categories of radio stations in the 40s and 50s.
What is black and white stations.
Describe music of the crooners.
What is sentimental, emotional, meaningful, sometimes jazz, often ballads.
Because this happened, women were given more responsibility at home for typical "women's jobs" and well as typical "men's jobs".
Men were drafted, went to war, and many died.
The song "American Pie" is written about the day this person died.
Who is Buddy Holly
This landmark court case took place in the mid-1950s, desegegrating schools.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education
This is the size of records that people listened to during the 50s.
What are 33s.