Kings & Queens
The King of Pop
Who was Michael Jackson?
The Singers of Hey Jude
Who are the Beatles?
A style of Rock and Roll music of which the piano replaces the electric guitar as the leading instrument
What is Piano Rock?
A decade containing the music of Britney Spears, OutKast, Eminem, Missy Elliott, Kelly Clarkson, Blink-182, and Avril Lavigne
What are the 2000s?
A device that could transmit sounds through the air by the use of radio waves
What is a radio?
The King of Rock 'n' Roll
Elvis Presley
The Singer of Respect
Aretha Franklin
A style of jazz music created for dancing performed by large groups of musicians called “Big Bands” or “Swing Orchestras”.
What is swing?
A decade containing the music of Motown, the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, and the Folk Music Revival
What are the 1960s?
The nickname for films with sound in the 1920s and 1930s
What are talkies?
Who was Aretha Franklin?
The Singer of Johnny B Goode
Who is Chuck Berry?
Music in the style of Black Gospel with secular lyrics that did not include Christian themes or beliefs
What is soul?
A decade containing the music of Nirvana, Tupac, Destiny's Child, Madonna, and NSYNC
What are the 1990s?
The name of a device released in 1982 that used laser beams to read high quality digital audio signals that were embedded into Compact Discs
CD Player (CDP)
The Godfather of Funk
Who was James Brown?
The Singer of We Didn't Start the Fire
Who is Billy Joel?
A jazz style that was popular from the 1890s until about 1915. It was played and developed by black piano players who performed in saloons and dance halls
What is ragtime?
A decade containing the music of Scott Joplin, the Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington
What are the 1920s?
The very first microphone to allow for high-quality transmission of the voice
What is the carbon microphone?
The King of Ragtime
Who was Scott Joplin?
The Singer of Oops!... I Did it Again
A “rhythm-driven” musical genre that was extremely popular in the 1970’s and the early 1980’s that originated in when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music by combining Soul, Jazz, and R&B.
What is funk?
Two decade containing the music of Michael Jackson, AC/DC, Van Halen, Queen, and Fleetwood Mac
What are the 1970s and 1980s?
Blank wax cylinders used to record sound
What is a phonograph cylinder?