Roots
Tin Pan Alley
Composers and Performers
Jazz and Swing
Potpourri
100
This style of Brazilian music was popularized by songs like "The Girl from Ipanema"
What is Bossa Nova
100
The typical song from used by composes in this era.
What is AABA.
100
Most popular bandleader from the 1890's through World War I.
Who was John Philip Sousa.
100
This band was the most popular dance band in the world during the swing era.
What is the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
100
This artist was the first black musician to host his own weekly radio series and the first to have a network television show.
Who was Nat "King" Cole.
200
This was the composer who developed the "ragging" style.
Who is Scott Joplin
200
This is the city Tin Pan Alley was located in.
What is New York.
200
The most influential songwriter of American popular song during the 19th century.
Who was Stephen Foster.
200
He lead the Washingtonians in the 1920's and early 1930's.
Who was Duke Ellington.
200
This performer was the first successful singing cowboy, he performed in over 90 movies.
Who was Gene Autry.
300
The "high lonesome sound" came from this tradition.
What is European American or Anglo-American.
300
The introduction of the electronic microphone brought about this style of singing.
What is Crooning.
300
First white performer to establish a wide reputation as a "blackface" entertainer.
Who was George Washington Dixon.
300
This famous female big band singer recorded "Mambo Italiano"
Who was Rosemary Clooney.
300
This composer is considered the most influential of the classic blues composers, his first hit was "Memphis Blues".
Who was W.C. Handy.
400
This popular show as the first expression of distinctively American popular culture.
What is the Minstrel Show
400
These people would perform and promote newly composed popular songs in order to sell sheet music.
What are song pluggers.
400
Which artist was the first documented example of modern pop hysteria?
Who was Frank Sinatra.
400
This term evokes the channeled flow of "swinging" or "funky" or "phat" rhythms.
What is Groove.
400
This performer's recording of St. Louis Blues introduced must of white Americans and a large section of Black Americans to the Blues.
Who was Bessie Smith.
500
These are the three main streams that popular music come from.
What is European American stream, African American Stream and Latin
500
This popular Tin Pan Alley Composer wrote many popular songs that endure to this day, including "I Got Rhythm".
Who is George Gershwin.
500
Al Jolson started in this sound film from 1927 that was the first film to exploit sound successfully.
What is "The Jazz Singer".
500
This person said "Jazz is music, swing is business"
Who was Duke Ellington.
500
This "neotraditionalist" music genre pioneered by Bill Monroe began in the 1930's and reached back into the musical traditions of the American South.
What is Bluegrass.
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