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Origins and work songs
1920's vocab.
Famous blues artists
Blues and Jazz music
Mis.
100
This type of work song was used to secretly communicate between fields.
What is a field holler?
100
This type of dance was very common when listening to blues music.
what is the boogie?
100
This leading trumpet player was one of the leading musicians in the 1920's.
Who is Lois Armstrong?
100
Blues came from this south-eastern continent.
What is Africa?
100
This man is the first African American president.
Who is Barak Obama?
200
This is the 6th most popular work song.
What is the workin' man blues.
200
This type African folk music was also practiced briefly in Haiti.
What is voodoo?
200
This blues artist is probably the most recorded man alive.
Who was John Lee Hooker?
200
This repetitive blues type was very common.
What is 12 bar blues?
200
this aquadic mammal has a beak, a beaver tail, and lays eggs.
What is a platipus?
300
This type of African music involved stomping feet, clapping, and singing.
What is a spiritual?
300
This was playing without practice, or making things up on the spot.
What is improvising?
300
This artist was the leader of the blues rock band double trouble and had a nickname of S.R.V.
Who is Stevie Ray Vaughan?
300
By the time blues was recorded in the early 1920's, these instruments were used the most frequently.
What were the piano and guitar?
300
This is the tempurture that water freezes at.
What is 32 degrees farenheit?
400
The early blues was only recorded by this tool of remembering.
What is memory?
400
This was a woman who dressed abnormally, and adapted attitude, and lifestyle.
What is a flapper?
400
Blues was populated at about 1911-1914 by this African American artist.
Who was W.C. Handy?
400
This term was when a singer would say a line, and the guitar would respond.
What was a call and response?
400
This is what the meaning of life is to Siri.
What is chocolate?
500
This origin of blues was used to make slaves work faster and harder.
What is a work song?
500
This term was short for a slaughterhouse where African- Americans worked when the migrated to the north.
What is a "kill floor?"
500
This blues artist revolutionized the vocal end of blues with her rich voice and influenced generations of musicians to come.
Who is Bessie Smith?
500
The quote "The blues is the roots. Everything else is the fruits." Was made by this person.
Who is Willie Dixon?
500
This is the type of wolf read in the book "Call of the Wild."
What is the Timber Wolf?