African Music
A common feature of African American songs where a leader would sing a verse and others would respond with a chorus
What is Call and Response
An instrument that was built out of oppression towards African culture.
The Steel Drum.
Jazz was born out of these two music genres
Blues and R&B
W.C. Handy
The long form of R&B
Rhythm and Blues
The African wooden percussion instrument that resembled a Xylophone, is meanings "to play" "Instrument"
What is a Balafon
The country in which the Steel Drum was first created.
Trinidad and Tobago
Jazz is heavily relied upon this, especially during solos
Improvisation
The first Blues format that defined Blues and its subgenres.
12 Bar Blues
Reggae music was a blend of these two types of music
R&B and Calypso
Oral tradition that imparted Christian values while also describing the hardships of slavery
What are Spirituals
The crop that the inventors of the steel drum farmed
Sugar Cane
"The First Lady of Song" revolutionary Jazz singer who used scatting in her songs
Ella Fitzgerald
The true father of Rock and Roll
Chuck Berry
This Reggae legend sang “Stir it up”
Bob Marley
A song that was sung to help free the slaves
Follow the Drinking Gourd
The first steel drum was made out of this
Oil Barrels
Was a legendary Jazz trumpeter who came from New Orleans
Louis Armstrong
This musician who played piano, organ, guitar, drums, harmonica, and sang and did it all while being blind
Stevie Wonder
The first hip hop record was called Rappers Delight and was sung by this group
Sugar Hill Gang
The constellation that escaped slaves followed to go north to Canada
The Big Dipper
This was on the end of the mallets used to hit the steel drum to make it sound better
Rubber
New York based jazz artist would create thousands of compositions as well as unrecorded tunes as well
Duke Ellington
Psychedelic rock guitarist who pioneered many guitar techniques
Jimi Hendrix
These pioneers of Gangsta Rap music
Dr. Dre, Ice–T, Schoolly D