Chapter 15 Reading Quiz

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In which phase did jazz transform into a true popular music, becoming the dance music of an entire generation?

1920s to 1950s

In which phase of jazz's history did it first spread around the world?

1920s to 1950s

In which phase was jazz first challenged by rock 'n' roll and R&B, and fell from the popular spotlight in the United States?

1950s to 1970s

Cécile McLorin Salvant has formed a fruitful musical relationship with her longtime pianist

Aaron Diehl

The particular style of music developed in South Africa is called

Cape Jazz

Abdullah Ibrahim was born in

Cape Town, South Africa

All of the following pianists were born after 1960 except Vijay Iyer Brad Mehldau Danilo Perez Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

This jazz vocalist studied law in France as a teenager:

Cecile McLorin Salvant

Which artist created a song called "We Are America," which protested the incarcerations in Guantanamo Bay?

Esperanza Spalding

Who was the first jazz musician to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist?

Esperanza Spalding

Esperanza Spalding was born and raised in

Portland, Oregon

A pianist who has lately instigated a conversation between jazz and South Indian (Carnatic) styles is

Vijay Iyer

Cécile McLorin Salvant's critically acclaimed 2013 album that truly launched her career was

WomanChild

Jazz players today

are better equipped than ever before

Which of the following narratives can be used to understand the overall development of jazz throughout its history?

jazz as an art music jazz as fusion jazz and historicism

The newest phase of jazz has been strongly affected by the involvement of most of its musicians in

jazz education

In addition to music, Vijay Iyer was trained in

mathematics and physics

Calling jazz "classical music" means that

one can recognize old jazz styles while allowing for new jazz styles.

Esperanza Spalding

plays the upright bass guitar, is a jazz vocalist, and is a jazz composer

In the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, jazz

shifted from a popular music to a marginal listener's music.

What makes Cécile McLorin Salvant's rise to prominence even more remarkable is

the heavily entrenched pantheon of jazz singers is so forbiddingly secure

Contemporary jazz musicians share a lingua franca, which means

they have in common a style of improvisation grounded in bebop yet open to innovation

In the last of the four historical phases listed in the textbook (a period that includes the present) jazz has become

weighed down by its historical legacy

In her recording, "Wild Women Don't Have the Blues," Cécile McLorin Salvant revitalizes an almost 100-year-old song recorded by

Ida Cox

The initial phase of jazz (i.e., its genesis) occurred

from the 1890s to the 1920s


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