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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