The removal of laws and policies enforcing a separation of races
What is desegregation?
100
He has been dubbed The Father of Rock and Roll
Who is Chuck Berry?
100
This made it possible for white and African American students to attend school together, and attend the same rock and roll concerts.
What is desegregation?
100
What were white adults worried about in regard to white teens listening to rock and roll music?
What is the moral corruption of youth?
100
This instrument is commonly associated with boogie woogie.
What is the piano?
200
A type of music where one person sings out a phrase, and a group of others respond back.
What is Call and Response?
200
Riley King is commonly known as BB King. What does the BB stand for?
What is Blues Boy?
200
These types of events helped break down barriers between white teens and African American teens by showing them that they had a common interest.
What were rock and roll concerts?
200
What did record companies do to promote white artists instead of African American artists?
What is a music cover done by a white artist?
200
Slave owners did not allow their slaves to use this instrument because they were worried about slaves communicating with each other over long distances, and inciting a rebellion.
What are the drums?
300
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a worker to use the land in exchange for a portion of the profits. This bound many former slaves to their former masters.
What is Share Cropping?
300
This blues artist was a major influence on Chuck Berry. He even told him where to go get a recording contract.
Who is Muddy Waters?
300
These two artists caught the attention of white teens because they were younger, thus more relatable to teens at the time.
Who were Little Richard and Chuck Berry?
300
Along with moral considerations, this was the other reason artists, DJs, and songwriters worried about the increased popularity of rock and roll music.
What is money?
300
African Americans left the south to escape sharecropping, racism, and this parasite
What is boll weevil?
400
This invention, along with the car radio, made radio more accessible and thus more popular with white listeners
What is the portable transistor radio?
400
This artist used boogie woogie style on the piano, yelled non-sensical lyrics and yelled woo during his songs.
Who is Little Richard?
400
This case was the beginning of the desegregation movement, and made desegregation of the schools illegal.
What is the Brown vs. Board of Education?
400
White adults also worried about the music put out by African American artists because they thought the beats inspired animalistic tendencies, and sexual thoughts. In fact, the original meaning behind this word is the African American euphemism for making love
What is Rock and Roll?
400
African Americans took the Illinois Railroad to migrate north. Many settled in this city because it was at the end of the railroad line
What is Chicago?
500
Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. This was a large reason why many African American artists did not get the credit they deserved for their music.
What is racism?
500
Nobody knows for sure how this artist died. This artist's fame also includes a legend that he got his virtuosic guitar playing abilities from the devil himself at a crossroads.
Who is Robert Johnson?
500
Rock and Roll got more air time on the radio because this invention became cheaper, and thus more prevalent in households after World War II.
What is the television?
500
Although many people were speaking out against rock and roll, this jazz musician likened the distain for rock and roll to the distain for swing music in the past.
Who is Count Basie?
500
Rather than the traditional scale, blues music uses this type of scale