Jazz
Duke Ellington was a band leader for this type of jazz music
Swing
What type of jazz music was developed in the 1930s?
Swing
Scott Joplin
1910s
A type of music by African-Americans that expressed sorrow, tough times, struggles, but looked with hope to the future
BLUES
Song: Thriller
Decade: 1980s
Michael Jackson
What instrument did Louis Armstrong play?
Trumpet
What did NOT influence the New Wave style of music in the 1980s?
a. Computer Technology
b. MIDIs
c. Electronic Instruments
d. Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal Music
Frank Sinatra
1940s
A new, distinctly American musical style with roots in earlier American music, blues, gospel, & country styles
Rock N Roll
Song: Jump!
Decade: 1990s
Kris Kross
The Charleston was a danced performed with this style of jazz music
Dixieland
Match the following dances to the correct decade
1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s
The Twist, The Charleston, Disco, Swing
Twist - 1960s
The Charleston - 1920s
Disco - 1970s
Swings - 1930s
Michael Jackson
1980s
A popular musical style categorized by its exciting, highly, syncopated rhythms
Ragtime
Decade: 1910s
Scott Joplin
Improvisation and complex harmonies were an important part of the band's playing style for this type of jazz
Bebop
Disco was a great dance music in the 1970s because of
A strong steady beat
Bob Dylan
1960s
A style of music popular at the beginning of the 1980s that had simple harmonies and odd, sometimes humorous lyrics
New Wave
Song: It Don't Mean a Thing (Ain't Got That Swing)
Decade: 1930s
Duke Ellington
Which artist was NOT a jazz musician?
a. Ella Fitzgerald
b. Ma Rainey
c. Frank Sinatra
d. Charlie Parker
b. Ma Rainey
The first broadway musicals were being created by which artist?
George M. Cohan
Elvis Presley
1950s
Began in the 1970s with young African-Americans who would improvise spoken rhymes to the beat of their favorite records
Rap or HipHop
Song: Crazy in Love
Decade: 2000s
Beyonce