MUH3025 midterm prep (from quizzes)

In the 1890s the first "nickelodeons" - machines that played the latest hits for a nickel - were set up in public places. (These machines later became known as "_________."

jukeboxes

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

___________ refers to rhythmic patterns in which the stresses occur on what are ordinarily weak beats, thus displacing or suspending the sense of metric regularity.

syncopation

The basic features of the blues form include a...

three-line AAB text and basic three-chord pattern

What is another common name for the bridge of a Tin Pan Alley song?

B section

Which white banjo virtuoso led the Virginia Minstrels?

Daniel Emmett

In which way was Benny Goodman forward looking?

His was one of the only racially integrated bands.

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

Skillet Lickers

Which is true about the song "In the Mood"?

The song was recorded in 1939 by the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

In "Caravan" by Duke Ellington's Orchestra, what instrument features most prominently?

valve trombone

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

Anglo-American stream

Which country blues artist's guitar playing became so remarkable that stories circulated about him selling his soul to the devil, which he sang about in Crossroad Blues"?

Charley Patton

________ is an intimate, gentle style of singing facilitated by the introduction of the microphone and modern recording techniques.

Crooning

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

_____________ composed Bing Crosby's 1932 hit "How Deep Is the Ocean?"

Irving Berlin

Which of the following is true about the diddley bow?

It is a musical instrument adapted from the one-stringed zither.

Which is true about Brazilian bossa nova music?

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

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

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Although jazz originated in the city of __________, the first recordings of the new music were made in New York City and Chicago.

New Orleans

In which city was Tin Pan Alley located?

New York City

Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917?

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Ruby Blevins, who scored a hit with "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" is best known by her stage name, which was

Patsy Montana

Who led the Ambassador Orchestra, the most successful dance band of the 1920s?

Paul Whiteman

__________ was an artist who in the 1940s achieved the unprecedented feat of placing uniquely styled gospel recordings high on the "race records" charts.

Rosetta Tharpe

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

Scott Joplin

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

Show Boat

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

Stephen Foster

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 was 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.

Which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the years around World War I?

Vernon and Irene Castle

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

Vaudeville

Which vocal harmony group scored a major hit with "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" in 1941?

Andrews Sisters

Which crooner released the hit "My Blue Heaven" in 1927?

Gene Austin

___________ first became popular on the National Barn Dance before becoming a movie star, where he institutionalized the image of the heroic singing cowboy.

Gene Autry

__________ was the drummer in Benny Goodman's Orchestra and small combos in the swing era.

Gene Krupa

Which artist established the myth of the outcast in "Waiting for a Train" and other songs that have proven to be a potent force in country music?

Jimmie Rodgers

"Nague" was this artist's signature song that signaled to knowledgeable listeners a deeper, grittier, more authentic engagement with Caribbean culture that was afforded by polite "rumbas."

Machito and his Afro-Cubans

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

Mamie Smith

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

A ______ is a type of song consisting usually of verses set to a repeating melody in which a story - often romantic, historic, or tragic - is sung in narrative fashion.

ballad

The rhythmic unit of music, consisting of one accented beat followed by one or more unaccented beats, is referred to as a(n) ______, or measure.

bar

In the 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

What style of piano was influential on the Kansas City swing/big bands?

boogie-woogie

In "Wrappin' It Up" by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, what characteristic of African American music is used extensively?

call-and-response