Folk
Typically, folk music is music that is passed down from generation to generation by...
oral tradition/word of mouth/singing it
Media Moment: What is the title of this classic rock song
"Sweet Home Alabama"
Johnny Cash wrote this popular song, "Ring of..."
Fire
Also called a mouth organ, a wind instrument in a small rectangular case that contains a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes over which the player blows to creates the tones.
Harmonica
The 1920's is known as the "_____ age"
Jazz Age
An example of folk music, this song makes you think of home, home on the...
range
These British rockstars took America by storm in the 1960's.
The Beatles
This city is known as the "Country Music Capital of the World."
Nashville, TN
In the music video "Help!" by the Bealtes, what object was being held in the back of the line? (hint: this is NOT an instrument!)
An umbrella
The name for making something up on the spot without rehearsing it...
Improvisation
This folk song get's it's title from the 363-mile long canal in New York State.
Erie Canal
A section of the music with no words but a single guitar melody being played is called a "guitar..."
"solo"
Country music originated in the decade of the 19...
20's
This instrument is widely used in many styles of music and gained popularity in the 1950's with the development of early rock and roll when things became louder. It needs an amplifier to make it loud.
Electric guitar
"It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that..."
Swing!
O hal' way is a song from the Nanticoke nation of native Americans that live in this state.
Delaware
Marty McFly goes back to the 1950's and ends up on stage playing which song by Chuck Berry?
Johnny B. Goode
Media Moment: Listen carefully to the following song and tell me who it is.
Willie Nelson
The Banjo is traditionally used in this genre of music.
Country
Jazz is a style of music from the African American Communities of what US city.
O hal' 'lway is a song celebrating the generations of who, in the Nanticoke tribe.
Women.
Early Rock and Roll began in the decade of the 19...
50's
Country music has it's roots in these two genre's of music.
American Folk and Blues
Media Moment: Name this instrument.
Pedal Steel
Jazz is seen by many to be America's what music?
Classical