Technology
Instrument prominently used for in-home music-making in the 19th and early 20th century
Piano
Instrumental music centered around improvisation (if you have to ask, you'll never know)
Jazz
Singer of the first hit blues record "Crazy Blues"
Mamie Smith
Most early American folk music actually originated here
England OR Ireland
Modern day rotational speed for vinyl records
33 1/3 rpm
12 bar, AAB, problems
Blues
Titan of trumpet and jazz, made the world more wonderful
Jimmie Rodgers
Earliest recording technology
Edison cylinders
Syncopated piano music
Ragtime
King of ragtime
Scott Joplin
Former farming family turned country music stars
The Carter Family
Invented in 1925 and contributed to much higher audio fidelity
Electric microphones
Quaint songs by Stephen Foster and others in the mid 1800s
Parlor Songs
"Father of the Blues"
WC Handy
Father of bluegrass, later covered by Elvis
Bill Monroe
The piano that plays itself!
Player Piano
Religious folk songs sung by enslaved people
Spirituals
Claimed to have invented jazz
Original Dixieland Jazz Band OR Jelly Roll Morton
Ethnomusicologist who collected and preserved countless American folk songs for the Library of Congress
Alan Lomax OR John Lomax