Recordings of performances by African American musicians.
What are race records?
100
He was known as aka "Satchmo" or "Satchelmouth"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
This song title was about life, death and the Devil by Robert Johnson.
What is "Crossroad Blues?"
100
This event threw millions of Americans out of work and had a major impact on the music industry.
What is "The Great Depression"
100
This song title by Guthrie spoke about life, liberty and equality for all the land.
What is "This Land is Your Land?"
200
the standard form of a blues song with three phrases of four bars each
What is 12 Bar Blues form?
200
A musician closely associated with writing overtly political songs in nature during the Great Depression. He was born in Oklahoma and began career as a hillbilly singer.
Who is Woody Guthrie?
200
This song title is an example of southern gospel music recorded by the Carter Family in 1935.
What is the Gospel Ship?
200
This is the name of a talent scout/record producer who later discovered the Carter musicians
Who is Ralph Peer?
200
This was the first station to feature country artists regularly in 1922?
What is WSB in Atlanta?
300
The specific category of blues songs called that were sung by high class night club singers?
What is Classic blues?
300
A pioneer blues singer, pianist and vaudeville performers, she was known as the "Queen of the Blues."
Who is Mamie Smith?
300
The song title focuses on the singers' overnight jail stay in the Bolivar County Mississippi jailhouse after being arrested for drinking moonshine.
What is the "Tom Rushen Blues?"
300
He was known as "The Singing Brakeman?"
Who was Jimmie Rodgers?
300
This person was the leader of a singing and playing group who collected and arranged folk songs
Who is A.P. Doc Carter?
400
An African American owned company founded by Harry Pace
What is the Black Swan?
400
Texas born opera singer who recorded the first big country music hit.
Who is Vernon Dalhart?
400
This dark and somber song title deals with a hobo waiting to make something of his life by traveling somewhere new and was written by Jimmie Rodgers in 1928.
What is "Waiting for a Train?"
400
This is the title of a radio show broadcast from Nashville Tennessee that is popular even today
What is the Grand Ole Opry?
400
This lady singer was known as the "Marian Anderson of the Blues"
Who is Alberta Hunter?
500
A region of fertile land from Memphis, Tennessee to Mississippi where folk blues first emerged.
What is the Mississippi Delta?
500
Musician from Georgia who made the first commercially successful hillbilly record in 1923?
Who is "Fiddlin" John Carson?
500
This song title is a ballad about a train crash in Virginia.
What is "Wreck of the Old 97?"
500
This lady singer was known as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas."
Who is Sophie Tucker?
500
This was the second compamy to enter the race record market in 1922