1940’s Music
The most popular musical genre of the 1940’s.
What is Rhythm and Blues?
The typical tempo (speed) of Blues Crooners music.
What is slow/laid back?
The city where Tin-Pan Alley music was based.
What is Manhattan?
The style that many Doo-Wop artists grew up singing.
What is gospel?
The other popular name for “Jump Bands”.
What are “War Bands”?
The 4 types of music that eventually formed R&B.
What are Blues Crooners, Tin-Pan Alley, Doo-Wop, and Jump Bands?
What is post-WWI?
The government coordinated with tin-pan artists during war-time to create ________ songs.
What is patriotic?
The primary focus of Doo-Wop music. *musically speaking
What are vocal harmonies?
The typical tempo (speed) of Jump Band music.
What is uptempo?
The World War that was occurring during the early 1940’s.
What is WWII.
The Blues Crooners style was dominated by this group of people.
Who are African-American immigrants?
Most Tin-Pan Alley songs were ______, however as the music developed uptempo songs were also created.
What is slow?
The typical tempo (speed) of Doo-Wop music.
What is uptempo?
The instruments commonly featured in Jump Band music.
What are brass instruments?
The R&B genre was a loose cluster of styles rooted in this.
What are southern folk traditions?
This melodies of Blues Crooners were often based on this type of scale.
What is the blues scale?
This instrument was featured in Tin-Pan Alley music.
What is the piano?
The typical mood of Doo-Wop music.
What is upbeat/happy/entertaining?
The original type of band which “Jump Bands” were based upon.
What are “Big Bands”?
The R&B genre was shaped by the experience of these two groups of people.
Blues Crooners were a style of jazz that sharply contrasted this other type of music that eventually helped form R&B.
What are Jump Bands?
The location where several artists and publishers came to record music, which became its own style and was given the name “Tin-Pan Alley” music.
As opposed to the religious themes present in gospel, Doo-Wop music was typically __________?
What is secular?
What are “crazy” and “wild”?