This person, a Delta Blues musician, supposedly "sold his soul to the devil."
Who is Robert Johnson?
100
In which sub-genre of the Blues do you find slide guitar?
What is the Delta Blues.
100
This term is the arrangement where a newly freed slave lived on and worked land, and was given a share of profits from the land owner.
What is sharecropping?
100
This document officially, issued by President Lincoln, officially freed the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
What two universities did Mrs. Thompson attend?
What is Miami University and the University of Indianapolis?
200
This woman was the "Mother of the Blues" and by some accounts the first touring female musician in America.
Who is Ma Rainey?
200
Which of our sub-genres is considered urban theater music?
What is the Classic Female Blues?
200
This was a sector of music where black artists were recorded and their music distributed and sold without giving the musicians a fair share of profits, occurred primarily within the early years of the blues.
What is "race records?"
200
This is the circuit which Classic Female Blues performers played on. It consisted of over 100 theaters nation-wide.
What is T.O.B.A.?
200
What was Mrs. Thompson's college minor?
What is special education?
300
This was the sub-genre that T-Bone Walker played within.
What is the Electric Blues?
300
The Electric Blues is hinged upon the creation of this instrument.
What is the electric guitar?
300
The economy of the Mississippi Delta region was, and is still based upon this.
What is agriculture.
300
This the time that happened immediately after the Civil War. It was a time of acclimation and many changes nation-wide.
What is "Reconstruction."
300
This is the name of Mrs. Thompson's only child.
Who is Addy?
400
This was the highest-paid female blues musician of all time. Janis Joplin purchased her head stone for her after her untimely death in a car accident.
Who is Bessie Smith?
400
This is the instrumentation for the Classic Female Blues.
What is solo female artist, piano accompaniment, sometimes small ensembles of background singers/horns?
400
This is the time when art, music and poetry had a rebirth and flourished with a certain area (boroough) of New York City.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
400
This is the JCSC elementary school that Mrs. Thompson attended for a small amount of time.
What is Brush Creek Elementary?
500
This was a famous blues/jazz songwriter who also served as an equality advocate for Classic Female Blues musicians.
Who is WC Handy?
500
This is the sharecropping plantation that many Delta Blues musicians lived at.
What is Dockery Plantation?
500
This is the term that refers to many black Americans moving to urban areas from the South to pursue industrial jobs.
What is the "Great Migration?"
500
This was the era that the Classic Female Blues is closely associated with. An era of glitz, glamour, fashion and entertainment.