Folk
This famous early American folk song is sung around the world, and most recently at the Presidential Inauguration.
This Land is Your Land
While Blues evolved from music of African Americans, Country music evolved from immigrants from this continent.
The "Delta" in this Southern state is known as the cradle of the Blues.
Mississippi
This famous, Mississippi born singer is the first white singer to perform rhythm and blues to wide audience.
Elvis Presley
Gospel is known for combining blues with spiritual music of this space.
This famous 1930's depression-era song writer is known as the father of folk music and singer-songwriting.
Woody Guthrie
This American city is the known as the birthplace of country music.
Nashville, TN
Early blues songs, known for sad lyrics depicting daily struggles, uses scales or chords in ______ keys.
Minor
Alan Freed, the famous DJ who coined the term "Rock and Roll," was based in this local city.
Cleveland, OH
Gospel music, known for its virtuosic solo singing against a choir, gave rise to our current vocal music style.
R&B (or Pop)
This American city became the focal point of 1960s folk & protest music.
New York City
Banjo, fiddle, bass, guitar (string instruments rather than drums)
Home of Sun Records, this American city and cotton producer was the birthplace of blues and rock recording.
Memphis, TN
This blues singer was the original singer of Elvis's "Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog."
Big Mama Thorton
This famous gospel singer of the 1960's was known as the Queen of Gospel and civil rights activist.
Mahalia Jackson
The most famous modern folk singer of all time, and winner of the Nobel Prize, was born as Robert Allen Zimmerman
Bob Dylan
This famous concert hall in Tennessee is the known as the home of Country music.
The Grand Ole Opry
After the Great Migration north, this American city became the home of "electric blues."
Chicago
Early Rock and Rock, such as "Hound Dog" and "Rock Around the Clock", was based off the blues chord progression known as______.
12 Bar Blues
This famous gospel song, known as an anthem of Civil Rights, was sung at MLK Jr's funeral.
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
The Folk Revival was known for its rejection of _______ instruments, preferring only acoustic sound.
Electric
The Country Western genre became the melding of Western swing from Texas and folk music of this Eastern mountain region.
Appalachia
Blues music is built off of a chord progression of how many measures.
12 Bars
Some historians credit Rock and Roll as beginning the first social integration of whites and blacks, known as________.
Desegregation
Thomas Dorsey