Test One

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Which of the following is true about African American ballads of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

They celebrated the exploits of black heroes and "bad men."

What role did song pluggers play in the music industry from the nine-tenth century until the 1920s?

They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them.

The invention of the "back beat," where emphasis of the beat is on beats "2" and "4" was introduced by which stream of American popular music?

African American

Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues" a piece which exemplifies the earliest form of a mature jazz style?

Creole Jazz Band

What section of "Enigue Nigue" is being played?

El Canto

What 20th century invention allowed for the rise of soft, velvety singers, or "crooners" like Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee?

Electric Microphone

Which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the years around WWI?

Vernon and Irene Castle

Which section of the song is playing when the recording stops playing?

B

Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bei canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?

Carlos Gardel

Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster?

He embraced both genteel traditions and less highly regarded by popular traditions such as minstrelsy

Who invented the phonograph?

Thomas Alva Edison

From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?

European American stream

Which of the following is true about the tango?

It developed during the late nineteenth century in Buenos Aries, Argentina

Which southern string band did James Gideon (GID) Tanner lead?

Skillet Lickers

Which of the following is NOT true about James Reese Europe?

He was a cornet player and leader of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?

Tango

What style of music does the pieca represent?

Ragtime

Who of the following was an influential ragtime pianist and composer?

Scott Joplin

Who was the most influential songwriter of American popular song during the nineteenth century?

Stephen Foster

Which rhythmic technique is being demonstrated in this piece?

Syncopation

Which film released in 1927 became the first to exploit sound successfully?

The Jazz Singer

What was the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character?

The Minstrel Show

What is the importance of this version of "La Cumparslta?"

The importance of Afro-Argentine musicians and the role of the guitar as the original form of instrumental accompaniment

Who of the following became the conductor of the U.S. Marine Band?

John Philip Sousa

Which of the following became the first nation-wide commercial radio network in 1926?

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)


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