AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC FINAL - compilation of quizzes 1-4

T/F - By 1946, the main focus of popular attention had shifted from celebrity vocalists to a younger generation of instrumentalists/bandleaders.

False

T/F - By far the most successful dance band of the 1920s was the Ambassador Orchestra, led by James Reese Europe.

False

T/F - George Gershwin's song "Swanee" quotes lyrics from Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More."

False

T/F - In "Tom Rushen Blues," Charley Patton tells the story of a man who recently moved to the city from a life in the Mississippi Delta and quickly succumbs to its evils.

False

T/F - In 1950, Columbia Records became the first major company to set up its country music operation in Nashville.

False

T/F - Many Tin Pan Alley songs dealt directly with troubling and social issues of the 1920s and 30s including racism, women's suffrage, and the rise of fascism.

False

T/F - Originally an oral tradition passed down in unwritten form, ballads were eventually circulated on large sheets of paper called handbills, the ancestors of today's sheet music.

False

T/F - Popular music has been wholly successful in avoiding the perpetuation of stereotypes.

False

T/F - Stephen Foster was the first person in the United States to make a living off the money he earned at concert performances.

False

T/F - The classic blues included artists like Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Robert Johnson.

False

T/F - The first Latin American style to have a major international impact was the Cuban tango, an African-influenced variant of the French country dance tradition.

False

T/F - The huge region of Africa from which enslaved people were drawn-the areas bordering more than eight thousand miles of Atlantic coastline stretching from current-day Senegal to Angola--shared a singular, monolithic culture.

False

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

John Philip Sousa

What show by Kern and Hammerstein was the first Broadway show to seriously address racial issues?

Show Boat

What is a key difference between, for instance, recordings of Al Jolson and Bing Crosby?

The vocal style known as crooning made recordings by Crosby feel much more intimate than those by Jolson.

T/F - The advent of the "revue," which featured sequences of skits, songs, and dances, were an obvious post-WWI successor to vaudeville.

True

T/F - The arranger of a song decides which instruments to use as accompaniment and what key the song should be in.

True

T/F - The country blues largely emerged from the Mississippi Delta regions and was first recorded in the mid-1920s.

True

T/F - The job of song pluggers was to promote the sheet music for popular songs produced by their various companies.

True

T/F - The mambo was the most popular form of Latin dance music in the United States in the years just before the rise of rock 'n' roll.

True

T/F - Woody Guthrie composes songs that were more overtly political and social in nature.

True

By the turn of the twentieth century, what form of popular theater became the most important medium for popularizing Tin Pan Alley songs?

Vaudeville

This self-titled "Father of the Blues" composed such hits as "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues," and was the most influential of the classic blues composers.

W.C. Handy

Which song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Band sold 2 million copies and featured the Swanee whistle (slide whistle), a novelty that helped sell the record?

"Whispering"

Which record format released in 1949 by RCA Victor Corporation allowed a listener to load a stack of singles?

45 rpm record

Which songwriter/recording artist traveled on song-collecting trips and copyrighted the final versions of the songs they found and arranged?

A. P. Carter

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

Anglo-American stream

In this recording of "St. Louis Blues" by Bessie Smith, what is the term for the cases in which Smith's singing falls outside Western tonal patterns?

Blue Notes

Which composer discussed in Chapter 4 of the textbook studied music at elite institutions such as Yale, Harvard, and the Scola Cantorum in Paris?

Cole Porter

Which pianist, organist, and bandleader recorded "Mambo No. 5" and did the most to popularize the mambo throughout Latin America and in the United States?

Damaso Perez Prado

Which white banjo virtuoso led the Virginia Minstrels?

Daniel Emmett

T/F - "Doo-wop" is a term that was used by the earliest performing vocal harmony groups to refer to their style of music.

False

T/F - Al Jolson's 1921 recording of "April Showers" is an excellent example of the effects of new microphone technology on Jolson's singing style.

False

T/F - American jazz music got its start in Harlem.

False

T/F - Between 1912 and 1918, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers did more than anyone to change the course of social dancing in America.

False

T/F - Big Mama Thornton, the artist featured in the recording below, was affectionately known as "Miss Rhythm" for her prowess on the drums.

False

T/F - The onset of quarantining in response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 led to a dramatic decline in creativity and an accompanying decline in the purchase of music creation software such as Apple's GarageBand, as well as musical instrument sales by online vendors such as Sweetwater, Guitar Center, Reverb, and other retailers.

False

T/F - The year 1919 saw "Dardanella" become the first hit song to be popularized in recorded form before it was released as sheet music.

False

T/F - Blind Lemon Jefferson was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta.

False (born in Texas)

T/F - The Gershwin Brothers wrote the popular Broadway musical, Oklahoma!

False (written by Oscar Hammerstein II)

Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster?

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

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 is not an influential Tin Pan Alley composer?

Ira Gershwin

Which productive, varied, and creative Tin Pan Alley composer was born in Temun, Russia in 1888 and later immigrated to the United States as a result of the anti-Jewish pogrom in 1892?

Irving Berlin

Which of the following is true about the tango?

It developed during the late nineteenth century in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Which is true about FM radio?

It offered better sound quality than AM radio.

Which is true about Brazilian bossa nova music?

It was popularized in the United States by songs like "The Girl from Ipanema."

The first race recording is largely to be considered by this Black vaudeville performer who recorded in 1920 for Okeh Records.

Mamie Smith

Which artist was the first Black musician to host his own weekly radio series (1948-1949) and the first to have a network television show (1956-1957)?

Nat "King" Cole

Which of the following became the first nationwide commercial radio network in 1926?

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

In which city was Tin Pan Alley located?

New York City

Which is the best definition of "strophe"?

One repetition of verse-and-chorus within a song's structure

Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917?

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

What is the term used to refer to record companies' once common practice of paying radio DJs to play their records frequently?

Payola

Which of the following pieces is widely considered George Gershwin's greatest work?

Porgy and Bess

How did the record industry classify recordings made by African American performers that were largely marketed toward an African American audience in the 1920s through the 40s?

Race

A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what?

Riff

Which songwriting team composed the musical Oklahoma!, which opened in 1943?

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Match the following artists to the musical genre or style with which they are most closely associated

Ruth Brown - rhythm and blues Frank Sinatra - crooning Muddy Waters - Chicago blues Patti Page - country and western

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

Scott Joplin

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

Tango

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

The Jazz Singer

The basic feature(s) of the blues style includes

The answer was all of the above for these 3 options - - a basic three-chord pattern. - a three-line AAB text. - a twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each.

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

The minstrel show

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 nineteenth century until the 1920s?

They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them.

Who invented the phonograph?

Thomas Alva Edison

Which white actor invented the minstrel character "Jim Crow"?

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

T/F - "My Blue Heaven," "April Showers," and "How Deep Is the Ocean?" are all examples of Tin Pan Alley ballads that have become standards.

True

T/F - Al Jolson often performed in blackface including in the 1927 motion picture, The Jazz Singer.

True

T/F - Ballroom dancing focused more on uniformity and restraint than on improvisation or the expression of emotion.

True

T/F - Bing Crosby constantly varies his dynamics within individual phrases in his recording of "How Deep Is the Ocean?"

True

T/F - Black southern gospel artists were expected to perform sacred music only and not to indulge in secular or "dirty" music like the blues.

True

T/F - Critical listening is listening that consciously seeks out meaning in music by drawing on knowledge of how music is put together, its cultural significance, and its historical development.

True

T/F - During the 1920s unprecedented profit levels in the music business led to a bolstering of the centers of influence established at the end of the nineteenth century, especially the big music publishing firms and record companies in New York City.

True

T/F - Following on the heels of the ragtime fad, the jazz craze represented the intensification of African American influence on the musical tastes and buying habits of white Americans.

True

T/F - In 1942, Billboard began for the first time to list "race music" and "hillbilly music," subsuming them under the single category "western and race."

True

T/F - In the years following World War II, record companies began to target teenagers for the first time.

True

T/F - Les Paul was a great innovator in the field of overdubbing.

True

T/F - Louis Armstrong's vocal style, employing nonsense syllables, is known as scat singing.

True

T/F - Other names for jazz were "jass" and "hot music."

True

T/F - R&B began as a loose cluster of styles rooted in Southern folk traditions and was shaped by the experience of returning military personnel and hundreds of thousands of Black Americans who had migrated to urban centers.

True

T/F - The Great Depression proved calamitous for the record industry, as millions of Americans were thrown out of work and did not possess the spare income to purchase records.

True