Show:
Innovation
The Jazz Age
African American Music
Instruments and Techniques
Shows
100
Bing Crosby was known as an innovator in using this device.
What is a microphone?
100
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution that forbade the sale of alcohol during the 1920s is popularly known as this.
What is prohibition?
100
The singer who had a huge hit in 1929 with "Am I Blue?"
Who is Ethel Waters?
100
This song form (or some variant of it) was used in the majority of popular songs until well into the rock era
What is AABA form?
100
This show is considered the first of the great modern musicals.
What is Show Boat?
200
A piece of equipment that increased the strength of an electric signal.
What is an Amplifier?
200
A bar or night club that operated illegally during prohibition.
What is a Speakeasy?
200
An artist responsible for mainstreaming the blues and one of the first black performers to succeed as a mainstream popular singer
Who is Ethel Waters?
200
A male singer who sings softly into a microphone to achieve an intimate, romantic sound.
What is a crooner?
200
The writer of the musical score for Show Boat.
Who is Jerome Kern?
300
Network radio was born by this company.
What is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)?
300
The stereotypical new woman of the 1920s.
What is a flapper?
300
The Cotton Club was a popular club in this neighborhood.
What is Harlem?
300
Most Dance Bands from the 1920s and 1930s used 3 types of this instrument.
What is the saxophone?
300
The score to the 1935 film, Top Hat, was written by this person.
Who is Irving Berlin?
400
The first radio station, KDKA, went on the air in 1920 in this city
What is Pittsburgh?
400
One of the first and most popular Dance Orchestras of the 1920s,
Who are the Paul Whiteman Orchestra?
400
A song about unrequited or lost love.
What is a torch song?
400
The pulsing or vibrating of one's tone on an instrument, in order to add expression to one's playing.
What is vibrato?
400
The phenomenon known as the Charleston, the most popular 1920s dance, was introduced in this show
What is Running Wild?
500
Fred Astaire's contribution to popular music was not made on records or radio, but rather through this medium.
What is film?
500
The best musical description of "Charleston" is this.
What is a syncopated fox-trot?
500
One of the top Black Dance Orchestras from the early Modern Era.
Who are the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra?
500
An offshoot of ragtime that featured a more complex bass/chord accompaniment and elaborate melodies.
What is Stride Piano?
500
The text for a sung stage production.
What is libretto?