Chapter 3 Survey Of Jazz

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When accents fall on beats two and four it is known as

backbeat

Ethnicity is a learned behavior.

true

The minstrel show's characteristics, including blackface, lingered in American show business until the early 1950s.

true

The minstrel show

was established as early as the 1840s. featured performers in blackface makeup. reinforced many degrading stereotypes of African Americans. -- each answer shown

Who is the best-known composer of ragtime music?

Scott Joplin

In addition to inventing the sousaphone, John Philip Sousa

composed many marches, including "The Stars and Stripes Forever."

The blues has ____-line stanzas.

three

"Zip Coon"

was a standard character in the minstrel show. was an overdressed dandy that parodied upper-class whites. performed in blackface ---each answer shown

Which is true about ragtime?

Its "ragged" polyrhythmic syncopation contributed to jazz. It consisted of multiple distinct melodic strains It was a form of composition first published in 1897. -- each answer shown

Scott Joplin's most famous composition is

Maple Leaf Rag."

__________, known as the "Father of the Blues," was a cornet-playing bandleader who first heard the blues in a Mississippi train station.

W. C. Handy

At the turn of the century, the term "ragtime" meant

a piano style. a type of song. a syncopated dance. --- each answer shown

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey was

a vaudeville/classic blues artist.

James Reese Europe was

an accomplished black conductor and arranger active during World War I.

Which of the following genres is/are part of African American folk culture?

ballads

Country blues musicians change the timbre and pitch of their guitars by using

bottlenecks

The popularity of the trumpet (cornet), clarinet, and trombone in jazz was due mostly to the influence of

brass bands

Field hollers and work songs

expressed the loneliness and hardship of African Americans.

"Race records," kept by the U.S. Census, were designed to prevent African Americans from voting in the South.

false

The idea that "jazz is African American music" is rooted in race, not ethnicity.

false

Which type of song form is diagrammed as A A B B C C D D?

march form

The Virginia Minstrels

performed in blackface.

Vaudeville blues - also known as classic or urban blues - were

performed on black theater circuits.

By 1900, the syncopations of ragtime music had shifted from the banjo to the

piano

"Secondary ragtime" is

polyrhythm, featuring a meter of three superimposed on a meter of two.

African American music is characterized by

polyrhythm. call and response. blues notes. --- each answer shown

"March form" was widely used in the following genre

ragtime

Among the African American dances that shocked and invigorated the country in the early twentieth century was

the Charleston.


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