The Colonial Period and Early Moravians in the Wachovia Tract:
What were the dates that Colonial Period spanned?
What is 1745– 1776
What were the dates that Piedmont Music in Black & White Period spanned?
What is 1800 - 1860
What were the dates the Dawn of “Hillbilly” Recordings period spanned?
What is 1920s – 1930s
What were the dates THE INFLUENCE of RADIO period spanned?
What is 1930 - 1960
What were the dates Music Masters in the Schools period spanned?
What is 1940s – 1950s
What were the dates the Early Moravians in the Wachovia Tract period spanned?
What is 1753-1800
What were the dates the From Stringbands to Bluesmen in the Northwest Piedmont period spanned?
What is 1860 - 1940
What were the dates the Jubilee Quartets and the “5” Royales period spanned?
What is 1920 - 1960:
Was radio always prerecorded, did they ever do lie performances?
What is no, they did live performances in early radio.
Bernard Foy and Harry Wheeler taught, but they also had a group. What was this group called?
What is the Royal Sultans
Who was the man who settled along the Yadkin River, traveled down the Great Wagon Road with his family from Pennsylvania to North Carolina, and was of Welsh and English descent.
Who is Daniel Boone
Why did construction began on a separate church for African Americans in Salem?
What is dislike of the shouting and dancing from the African American congregations
Who was one of the first hillbilly recording artists (hint: Forsyth County)
Who is Ernest Thompson
When was African American gospel allowed to be played on radio?
When is the 1940s
Who carries on the legacy of music teachers Bernard Foy and Harry Wheeler?
Who is Joe Robinson
Who were a close-knit, religious group who settled the Wachovia Tract, where learning how to read and write music was an important part of education, and imported a variety of other instruments into the Wachovia Settlement?
Who are the Moravians
Where was a vibrant blues scene emerging?
Where is Winston-Salem
What is African American gospel often viewed and referred to as?
What is a mix/blend of music styles.
(I think of gospel in terms of a blend of sacred, spiritual and hymns, with a jazz and blues style- Tim Jackson, Jr)
Which radio station aired on Good Friday and on the first day had religious programming? (hint: 1930)
What is WSJS
What instrument was Harry Wheeler good at?
What is the Trumpet
What instrument was popular in the Colonial period?
What is a fiddle
What was a popular instrument used in stringband music before the Civil War?
What is the fiddle
What was a hillbilly in The Dawn of “Hillbilly” Recordings period?
What is white southern string band musicians.
What were 3 influential early radio stations in the North Carolina northwest Piedmont.
What are WPAQ in Mount Airy and WSJS and WAAA in Winston-Salem.
Where did music masters exist?
Where is rural and urban, as well as in segregated black and white schools.