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Streams of Influence
Jazz & Blues
Hillbilly Music
Race Records
Songwriting
100
Songs from these European nations had an influence on early American songs.
Italy, Ireland, and Scotland.
100
This jazz saxophonist was influential in the creation of bebop in Harlem.
Charlie Parker
100
This American family was the first influential family band in country music.
The Carter Family
100
This term was used to describe music recorded  in a southern, African-American music style in the 1920s.
Race records
100

____ _____ _______ is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Tin Pan Alley
200

This type of song is a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.

The ballad.
200
This blues musician was born blind, or partially blind, and is known as the "father of the Texas blues."
Blind Lemon Jefferson
200
As opposed to the conservative Carter famiy, this early country musician was a railroad man, a rambler, and his music reflected people who lived outside of the religious social norms of the day.
Jimmie Rodgers
200
This record company was responsible for some of the first hit race records.
Okeh Record Company
200
This type of two part song construction found in ballads was utilized by early American composers
Verse-Refrain
300
This Cuban type of rhythm was the first major source of Latin-American influence on American music.
the habanera
300
This blues artist is known for his shimmering vibrato and is known as "the king of the blues."
B.B. King
300
This famous country musician started off as a clean cut singer and guitarist, but later transitioned to be known as "the man in black."
Johnny Cash
300
This ex-vaudeville singer was recorded by the Okeh record company came to be known as the "Queen of the Blues."
Mamie Smith
300
This Tin Pan Alley composer wrote such hit songs as "White Christmas," "Blue Skies," and "Putting on the Ritz."
Irving Berlin
400

Africans brought to the Americas by the Transatlantic slave trade brought a distinct type of phrasing described as  a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

Call and response.
400
This jazz trumpet player and composer is known for having changed the course of jazz music several times throughout his career.
Miles Davis
400
Country music was originally marketed as ______ ______, and was not considered derogatory at the time.
Hillbilly Music
400
The division of "race records" and hillbilly music was a marketing distinction made by ____________ ______ eager to find new markets for music.
Record companies
400
This Tin Pan Alley composer is also famous for writing orchestral music.
George Gershwin
500
The enslaved peoples of this region of Africa brought their musical culture with them to the United States.
Senegambia
500
This blues singer is known as the "empress of the blues."
Bessie Smith
500

This type of music, or “old-time” music, on the other hand, was performed by, and mainly intended for sale to, southern whites.

Hillbilly music
500
This was the first African-American record label.
Black Swan
500
Tin Pan Alley composers utilized this song structure to create hits.
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