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Tin Pan Alley borrowed musical ideas from

(ALL) blues, classical, and jazz

The Country music show that overshadowed all the Country broadcasts in the 1930s was

Grand Ole Opry

What influenced 20th century Pop music and made it historically unique?

Technology and mass media

Tin Pan Alley composers and musicians formed this organization to aid and protect their interests

ASCAP

Name the Turkish-American businessman and songwriter who founded Atlantic Records

Ahmet Ertegun

What was Tin Pan Alley?

An actual place in New York

The melody from "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" is adapted from a work by

Chopin

The United States became the dominant force in popular music in the 1920s.

False

The struggle between ASCAP and NAB resulted in the boycott of NAB-sponsored music

False

When radio station DJs were given free records from independent labels, they never got paid to do so.

False

What were the two main entertainment outlets for Tin Pan Alley music?

Hollywood and Broadway

Who is regarded as "the Father of Country Music"?

Jimmie Rodgers

This Columbia producer showcased the music of African American artists in a concert at Carnegie Hall called "From Spiritual to Swing"

John Hammond

This artist marks the transition from Southern Blues to Rock n Roll

Muddy Waters

Many smaller radio stations could not afford ASCAP royalties. In order to challenge ASCAP, they formed

NAB

By the end of the 1940s, people began to realize the derogatory connotations of "race" and "hillbilly" as genre names. Billboard Magazine renamed these genres as

R&B and Country

Frank Sinatra was a vicious opponent of _____ in the 1950s

Rock n Roll

In 1941, the public was exposed to new and different music. What did this year push the public's music taste toward?

Rock n Roll

In the 1980s, this artist sued Atlantic Records for unpaid royalties and won a settlement

Ruth Brown

One of these group's was performing and recording between 1927 and 1956. Their music influenced all sub genres of folk music as well as pop, and rock. Country music today would not sound the same if it were not for this group.

The Carter Family

Beginning in the 1950s, popular music has been dominated by Rock n' Roll and not Tin Pan Alley musicians

True

Big bands and Swing style Jazz peaked in the 30s and declined in the 40s

True

In 1939, Ella Fitzgerald's mentor Chuck Webb passed away, and her ensemble was renamed "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra"

True

In the 19th century, Tin Pan Alley composers were more interested in selling sheet music than recordings of their music

True

Musical arrangements for big bands were written like symphonic compositions

True

When Hollywood saw the success of the Grand Ole Opry, they picked up the cowboy image and made many movies based on the subject.

True

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Tin Pan Alley Publishers engaged _______________ to popularize the songs they were selling as sheet music.

Vaudeville stars

In 1924, the most popular songs in the Country style were "The Wreck of the Old '97" and "The Prisoner's Song." Who recorded these songs in 1924?

Vernon Dalhart

One of the few African American members of ASCAP was __________ and he was the author of _______________

W.C. Handy, St. Louis Blues

This Blues musician played upright bass and was one of the most prolific songwriters of his time

Willie Dixon

Emile Berliner invented this type of disc, which had a major impact on the dissemination of popular music

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In the 1920s, music was classified by race in order to

market it

Music pluggers were vocalists/pianists who

promoted sales of sheet music

An ethnomusicologist is a scholar who

researches and records the folk music of a particular area