1970s - 1990s
What decade did rap become mainstream
1990s
This style had themes of fun in the sun
Surf
This instrument became the main instrument starting in the 1950s
Guitar
This type of band played Swing Music
Big Band
This style by African Americans expressed sorrow but looked with hope to the future
The Blues
MIDI stands for this
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
This was a dance craze in the 1960s
The Twist
Elvis Presley was known as
The King of Rock and Roll
This jazz style had 15-20 players in a group
Big Band
This dance was made popular by the movie Running Wild in the 1920s
The Charleston
What style moved away from Heavy Metal, with humorous lyrics, MIDI, and synthesizers
New Wave
This was the most popular group of the British invasion
The Beatles
This style used little accompaniment, often just guitar, in the 1960s, in order to focus on the lyrics
Folk
A popular band leader of Big Band was
Duke Ellington or Benny Goodman
This kind of jazz band featured 5-8 musicians
Dixieland
Nirvana, Alanis Morisette, and Green Day were bands of this genre, which moved away from the overly produced sounds of New Wave
Alternative Rock
The Twist was created by this man
Chubby Checker
Dolly Parton was a singer of this genre
Country & Western
This style featured an 8-to-the-bar blues piano style and an upbeat tempo
Boogie-Woogie
The first of these entertaining shows were made in NYC in the 1900s and 1910s
Musicals
This 1970s style was easy to dance to
Disco
Bob Dylan wrote political music of this genre
Folk
These are two genres from the 1970s. One used electric guitars and amplifiers, one had simple harmonies and expressive vocals
Heavy Metal & Country and Western
This jazz style developed in the 1940s after WWII forced large bands to shrink
Bebop
What style featured fast, syncopated rhythms on the piano? Scott Joplin was a major composer of this style
Ragtime