Chapter 3 Survey Of Jazz
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.
