From Slavery
Singing and body percussion
What are the two instruments that could not be taken away from slaves by their owners?
Much of the success of the Underground Railroad was due to these songs that took on hidden meaning.
What are code songs?
Songs that took on new meaning to bring people together in the cause for civil rights.
What are songs of unification?
Share cropping
What is the profession that many former slaves attempted once freed?
Although the guitar has many ancestral beginnings, its modern form is believed to have taken place in this country.
What is Spain?
The religion that slaves adopted that informed the development of their music.
What is Christianity?
"Follow the Drinking Gourd" is widely believed to have meant to follow this constellation while on the path to freedom.
What is the Big Dipper?
The most popular song of the civil rights movement, it was originally an auction block song, then a workers rights song before being adapted for the movement.
What is "We Shall Overcome?"
Mississippi
What is the state where many share croppers suffered greatly and began singing about their circumstances?
This is the type of guitar used by early blues musicians.
What is the acoustic guitar?
Songs that maintained elements of African rhythms and were used by slaves to pass the time and keep on task as they worked in brutally harsh conditions.
What are work songs?
"Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home."
What are the lyrics with the message that the Underground Railroad would soon arrive from the North to help carry a slave or slaves to freedom?
The name of a famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that shared the title of a song of the same name and referenced key lyrics from that song.
What is "We Shall Overcome?"
Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis
What are the cities to where many share croppers fled to find better jobs?
Two devices initially used to help project the volume of the acoustic guitar.
What are microphones and pickups?
Songs created by slaves that used elements of European based hymns combined with African rhythms and religious text.
What are spirituals?
The song with hidden meaning that was believed to have been Harriet Tubman's favorite.
What is "Steal Away?"
Pete Seeger
Who is the celebrity folk singer that helped make a former auction block song gain new meaning and popularity as the leading song of the Civil Rights Movement?
Night clubs
What are the venues that early Country Bluesmen sang their songs?
The inventor of the "log" electric guitar that led to the development of today's solid body electric guitars.
Who is Les Paul?
A popular singing technique used by slaves and found in many genres today in which a leader is followed by other singers.
What is call and response?
Its religious meaning suggested practices such as baptism by water, but took on meaning to do this action to hide scent from hounds used to track escaping slaves.
What is "Wade in the Water?"
John Legend and Common
Who are modern day artists that recorded the inspiring "Glory," a modern civil rights song, for the movie "Selma?"
Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters
What are the stage names of two of the earliest and most popular blues singers to be recorded and gain fame?
Two iconic brands of electric guitars used by blues musicians.
What are Gibson and Fender?