Blues
These are songs sung while working to keep pace and spirits up.
What are Work Songs?
This port city had a nightlife where musicians would play together, learn from each other, and combine ideas from all over the world during the early 1900s.
What is New Orleans?
This Nashville concert hall and radio station featured many country artists since its opening in 1925.
What is the Grand Ole Opry?
This famous artist is known as "The King" of Rock n' Roll.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This area in New York city is where rap was created at parties and celebrations.
What is the Bronx?
One of the first styles of the Blues developed in the Mississippi Delta that features acoustic guitar, voice, and sometimes harmonica.
What are Country Blues?
This rhythmic style gives Jazz it iconic off-balance rhythm and "groove".
What is "Swing"?
This is the term used to describe the iconic Southern accent featured in most country music.
What is "Twang"?
This is the term describing the sudden influx of English Rock Bands in the United States like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and the Who.
What is The British Invasion?
These people would introduce themselves and make announcements over the over microphone through rapping at parties.
Who are MCs or Masters of Ceremonies?
Blues type where musicians had to be amplified in order to be heard well, and the electric guitar became its defining sound.
What is the Chicago Blues?
This the term used to describe when some makes up music on the spot without having any written music in front of them.
What is improv or improvisation?
This genre of Country music is known for adding voice to the small Appalachian bands that had guitars, banjos, and fiddles.
What is Bluegrass?
Invented in 1952, this device enabled teens to listen to Rock n' Roll after school in secret.
What is the portable radio?
This is two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme that many rappers and poets use in their writtings.
What is a couplet?
He is known as the Father of the Blues.
Who is W. C. Handy?
This famous jazz trumpet player and singer is best known for his rendition of "What a Wonderful World".
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This is term given to musicians who switched over from Country to being pop artists.
What are “crossover artists”?
This band is known as one of the greatest British Rock bands of all time with hits like "Penny Lane", "Yesterday", and "Hey Jude".
Who are The Beatles?
This is the term for the pre-recorded electronic instrumental track played under a rap.
What is a "back-track"?
He invented the electric guitar in the 1930's giving way to the creation of the Chicago Blues.
Who is Les Paul?
Music is to Jazz as food is to THIS famous New Orleans dish.
What is Gumbo?
Famous for her songs like "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "Coal Miner's Daughter", this country artist was known as a one of the greatest.
Who is Loretta Lynn?
In his radio show featuring Rhythm and Blues and Country Music, this host used the term “Rock n’ Roll” to describe the popular dance music being played.
Who is Alan Freed?
Before becoming know as rap in the united states, storytelling over drum beats was customary in this area of the world.
What is West Africa?