Technology and the Music Business
Dance Music and Styles
Musicians and Bands
Society and Culture
Song Titles
100
These films synchronized sound and became a promoter for songs and entertainers.
What are "talkies?"
100
This was a new style of music which incorporated syncopation and influences of African American styles of dance
What is ragtime music
100
This orchestra conductor helped to promote successes like Bing Crosby and paved the way for the Swing Era with his Ambassador Orchestra.
Who is Paul Whiteman?
100
This was the place where the earliest jazz music was formed.
What is New Orleans?
100
This title song was composed by the first known all white jazz band.
What is the Tiger Rag?
200
This was the first film to utilize sound successfully.
What is The Jazz Singer
200
This was a dance style popularized by Vernon and Irene Castle which featured a blend of ballroom dancing, light opera and the ballads of Argentine gauchos
What is the tango?
200
This conductor and his orchestra featured the cornet player, Louis Armstrong and included a style that was more relaxed and improvisational than other earlier jazz bands. (full name and orchestra)
Who is "King" Oliver's Creole Jazz Band?
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!! (Worth 400 points) These were two subcultures that emerged from white upper and middle classes. (nicknames and descriptions)
What is "flappers" -feminist young women and what is "sheiks" - cool, sophisticated young men modeled after stars like Rudolph Valentino?
200
This was a hit song released by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians in 1927.
What is "Charmaine?"
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!! (worth 600 points) This is the full name of the agency that was set up to control the flow of profits from the sales and profits of music.
What is ASCAP - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers?
300
These were three particular styles of dance music popularized by jazz bands named for the style of audience.
What is hot, sweet and Latin dance music?
300
This well known jazz band leader formed the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Who is Nick LaRocca?
300
These were four luxuries that middle class families now owned that shaped changes in popular music.
What is cars, telephone, phonographs and radios?
300
This song title was performed by the pianist George Gershwin.
What is the Rhapsody in Blue?
400
This was the first recording technology process for recording sound vibrations.
What is acoustic recording?
400
This orchestra and their hit piece paved the way for salsa music and developments in Latin bands such as the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. (Name the orchestra and the hit piece)
What is the Havana Casino Orchestra and the Peanut Vendor?
400
He was an African American musician and bandleader; musical director; founded the Clef Club, the Society Orchestra and the Hell Fighters Band.(full name)
Who is James Reese Europe
400
This encouraged the availability of jobs and the transportation system which in turn contributed to music developments.
What is migration?
400
This title song was the first ever "serious" love duet in the hit show Shuffle Along.
What is "Love Will Find a Way?"
500
These were two major events which fluctuated the popularity of technological advancements and the music business during the 1920s -1930s.
What is the Great Depression? What is World War I?
500
This was a style of music created by jazz pianist Duke Ellington which featured dense textures and dark timbres.
What is jungle music?
500
These two men were a song-writing team that launched the first successful all-black Broadway musical. (full names)
Who is Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake?
500
These were two specific events which caused law breaking and social conflicts.
What is the Prohibition Act or Organized Crime? What is the forming of the Ku Klux Klan?
500
This song title by the Society Orchestra featured, a combination of ragtime and syncopated dance style music.
What is the Castle House Rag?
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