ch 11 ch 10

Victor Herbert composed how many operettas?

40

________ pervaded all three entertainment types of theater, song, and dance

Ragtime

Jimmie Rodgers's style and output borrowed deeply from _______ music practice and culture:

African American

The landmark United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson occurred in:

1896

Irving Berlin's "immigrant" song period existed from

1912-1917

In what year was the electric microphone introduced into the recording studio?

1925

Scott Joplin's first published rag was entitled:

Mississippi Rag

What A&R man was hired by Okeh Records to comb the rural South in search of new artists for the white Southern market?

Ralph Peer

The most successful black musician to bring music from the black folk tradition into the popular sphere was

Scott Joplin

The Carter Family was from:

Virginia

Outside his work with the Carter Family music group, A. P. Carter was:

an amateur song catcher

Most show songs that won popularity in the years between the two world wars were about romantic love.

true

New York City's Metropolitan Opera toured Mexico

true

The blues would go on to influence nearly every style of music that developed in its wake.

true

Like Tin Pan Alley, Broadway embraced ragtime and, from the 1920s until well after World War II, many popular songs would display some degree of _______ influence.

blues

Which of the following would have been viewed as the lowest form of musical entertainment during the early twentieth century?

burlesque

Al Jolson was not connected to the musical comedy tradition.

false

An example of a new up-to-date musical comedy of the 1920s was The Student Prince with songs by George and Ira Gershwin

false

Between 1910 and 1920, the Metropolitan Opera especially encouraged creative opera efforts by American composers, and many won an enduring place in the repertory.

false

In the years between the two world wars, the boundaries between country music and other genres were clearly marked.

false

New York City's Metropolitan Opera opened in 1861.

false

The blues was developed by whites in the rural South.

false

Some hillbilly music fits neatly into the category of ________, but much of it does not.

folk

Musical comedy differed from operetta in that:

its settings and characters were contemporary

Of the following, the earliest recorded blues singer was:

mamie smith

Show Boat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?

musical comedy and operetta

Irene and Vernon Castle were known for:

offering dance lessons of "exotic" styles for the mainstream

The key to the distinctive voice in American musicals was

popular song

The newly discovered market for African American musicians playing the blues was dubbed:

race records

Of the following, which is NOT an explicitly successful ingredient for an independent show tune?

sentimentality

Two acts that would eventually transform country music from a small specialty market into a major segment of the American music industry were:

the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers

Typically, operetta differed from opera in that:

the plots were carried by spoken dialogue

A lively tradition of stage musical entertainment developed in the rural South disseminating new songs at a time when minstrel and vaudeville shows were largely urban phenomena.

true

Advantages such as musical literacy, music lessons that promoted literacy, ownership of musical instruments—especially the piano—were beyond the reach of many Americans, especially in the least prosperous regions of the country

true

Black minstrel shows set the stage for the careers of professional African American entertainers after the Civil War.

true

British theatrical imports dominated the American stage throughout the nineteenth century.

true

Despite the regular presence of ragtime in most popular music of this period, only songs having to do with African American subject matter were considered ragtime.

true

George M. Cohen's "I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune" made references to foregoing operatic repertoire.

true

Jimmie Rodgers was the first undisputed solo star of country music.

true

Many early twentieth-century operas composed for the Metropolitan Opera focused on which of the following groups as subject matter?

Native Americans