music quiz #3
Where does blues originate?
Black communities in the South, from the Mississippi Delta to east Texas
What was the first record company to produce race records and hillbilly records?
Okeh Records
What is the most common form of blues songs?
12-bar blues
Why does nearly every song in Tin Pan Alley use the same form?
A common form aided in mass production of music
What makes a song a "standard"?
A standard is a song that is performed so frequently that it becomes part of the core repertoire of American popular music
What is crooning?
A style of singing associated with intimacy, a result of the clarity provided by electric microphones
What is signifying?
A tradition in African-American music of hiding meaning within song lyrics that only listeners aware of the true meaning can understand
What are blue notes?
Chromatically altered pitches that lie outside the key of the song - "bent" or "flattened" notes
What was Tin Pan Alley?
Dense collection of music publishers, beginning of the modern music industry
What was the "barn dance" format of radio shows?
Featured a variety of musical performances and comedy acts, an important model in distributing country songs
In what ways were race music and hillbilly music distributed?
Hillbilly music relied on radio stations throughout the South, race records were distributed through phonograph records
What is the relationship between Jewish immigrants and Tin Pan Alley?
Jewish immigration from Germany and eastern Europe into American rose significantly between 1880s-1920s as a result of antisemitism in Europe. Many of these immigrants moved to New York and found employment in the newly created entertainment industry.
Where was Tin Pan Alley located?
New York City
What is classic blues?
Professionally composed songs composed by Tin Pan Alley composers combining blues and Tin Pan Alley forms.
What is the most common form of Tin Pan Alley songs?
Tin Pan Alley form, verse-refrain form
What is the difference in songwriting between Tin Pan Alley songs and the music marketed as Race music and Hillbilly music?
Tin Pan Alley songs were mass produced, followed a common form. Race music and Hillbilly music were based in folk song traditions and marketed primarily to southern listeners
What is the relationship between Broadway and Tin Pan Alley?
Tin Pan Alley wrote music for Broadway shows and many Tin Pan Alley songs were premiered on Broadway - Broadway looking for music and providing performers, Tin Pan Alley provided music
What is Tin Pan Alley form?
Verse-refrain form where the verse acts as an introduction and the refrain is the actual song in AABA form
What is country blues?
aka down-home blues, folk music tradition from the Mississippi Delta
