Notable Figures
This artist, known as the "King of Rock and Roll," is known for his stealing his hit song "Hound Dog"
Who is Elvis Presley?
A religious song of southern slaves, passed from the Bible, but they often carried hidden meanings of enslaved people’s yearning for freedom.
What is a "spiritual"?
Minstrelsy, the impersonation of African Americans in jokes, skits, songs, and dances, falls under the following category.
What is "popular music"?
A characteristic of the genre that can be thought of as "Question and Answer" between musicians
What is "call and response"?
This trumpeter is the single most important figure in the development of Jazz
Who is Louis Armstrong?
The rhythmic term when one syncopates/delays a series of notes, often highlighting the underlying triplet feel.
This genre is independent of notation, passed through oral tradition and sold as popular music
What is "folk music"?
The classic Blues form has this many measures
What is the number "12"?
This artist first made his reputation as a composer of popular songs and Broadway shows. Most of his best-known songs feature lyrics by his brother Ira.
A “factory” on w.28th in New York city that produced popular music in masse
What is "Tin Pan Alley"?
This genre is written down and sold as a commodity but centers on the performer and the performance. It allows considerable leeway in rearranging the notated music
What is "popular music"?
This Black woman is a pioneer of Black woman and is the original singer of the hit song "Hound Dog"
Who is Big Mama Thornton?
This person is considered as the most successful bandmaster, whose years conducting the United States Marine Band raised it to national prominence through tours and savvy promotion
Who is John Philip Sousa?
A style of popular music in the early 20th century that conveyed African American polyrhythm in notated form.
What is "ragtime"?
An unaccompanied rhythmically loose vocal line that expressed a person’s lonesome individuality.
What is a "field holler, folk music"?
This Blues singer is considered at the "Mother of the Blues"
Who is Ma Rainey?
This African American choral group was founded in 1871 on the campus of a Historically Black College in Nashville, TN. They are famous for singing spirituals such as "Wade in the Water"
Who are the "Fisk Jubilee Singers"?
This style of Jazz developed in New York in the 1940s that had a diversified rhythmic texture, enriched harmonic vocabulary, and an emphasis on improvisation with rapid melodies and asymmetrical phrases.
What is "bebop"?
Written by Igor Stravinsky, this piece incorporates several genres, and even incited a riot on the night of its premiere.
What is "Rite of Spring"?
Recite the typical 12-Bar Blues song structure (three verses, lyrics)
What is "Make a statement, repeat the statement, answer the statement"?