Blues
Blues music originated from what region in the United States?
Mississippi Delta
Who is considered Father of the Blues?
W.C. Handy
Gospel music is defined as_____?
The Good News
In which country did Reggae music originate?
Jamaica
In what city did Jazz originate?
New Orleans
What instrument did Louis Armstrong play?
Cornet/Trumpet
The birthplace of Hip Hop
Bronx, New York
Who raps: I know I can?
NAS
What type of people birthed Blues music?
Sharecroppers
The first successful blues singers were men. TRUE/FALSE
False
Gospel music is a _____ and a _______?
Feeling and a Conviction
Why has Reggae music sometimes been criticized?
Linked to cannabis.
Jazz is mainly a form of _____?
Improvisation
What instrument did Jelly Roll Morton play?
Piano
Which immigrants brought over the concept of DJ’s?
Jamaicans
Who raps the song “These are the Breaks”?
Kurtis Blow
What instrument is the main focus in Blues music?
Guitar
This woman commanded $2,000 a week for her performance.
Bessie Smith
Amazing Grace was written by a former_____?
Slave ship captain
List 2 subjects that Reggae music often deals with.
Any of the following:Religion, love, peace, and poverty.
Which type of music was an early precursor to jazz that was very syncopated?
Ragtime
Who was actually recognized as being the first jazz artist?
Buddy Bolden
An instrumental passage in funk and soul recordings in which the lead instruments and vocals stop, “breaking down” to just drums and bass or just drums.
The Break
Who is known as the father of Hip Hop?
DJ Kool Herc
Blues music is written in which narrative form?
1st person
What blues prisoner became famous?
Huddie Ledbetter
Most Africans could not write but could______?
Harmonize
Who is the most famous Reggae musician?
Bob Marley
Why were horns used so commonly in the early jazz days?
They were left over from the Civil War.
When CBS brought in a microphone into the Cotton Club, this person became the most band leader in America.
Duke Ellington
Hip hop was birthed in what year?
1980s
This member of NWA went on to acting and directing movies
ICE CUBE
The______ spread southern culture, helping give the Blues a central place in American popular music.
The Great Migration
This artists' real name is McKinley Morganfield?
Muddy Waters
Gospel music was accepted in the year of?
1921
In which year did Bob Marley die?
1981
What place in the north helped take Jazz to another level?
Harlem, New York
Which band recorded the first jazz recording?
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
The practice of musical, rap-like talking over an existing musical track pioneered by Jamaican DJs at “sound system” dances in the late 1960s
Toasting
The west coast and east coast beef was between these two rappers?
Tupac and Biggie Smalls