Test One
Which of the following is true about African American ballads of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
They celebrated the exploits of black heroes and "bad men."
What role did song pluggers play in the music industry from the nine-tenth century until the 1920s?
They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them.
The invention of the "back beat," where emphasis of the beat is on beats "2" and "4" was introduced by which stream of American popular music?
African American
Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues" a piece which exemplifies the earliest form of a mature jazz style?
Creole Jazz Band
What section of "Enigue Nigue" is being played?
El Canto
What 20th century invention allowed for the rise of soft, velvety singers, or "crooners" like Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee?
Electric Microphone
Which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the years around WWI?
Vernon and Irene Castle
Which section of the song is playing when the recording stops playing?
B
Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bei canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?
Carlos Gardel
Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster?
He embraced both genteel traditions and less highly regarded by popular traditions such as minstrelsy
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Alva Edison
From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?
European American stream
Which of the following is true about the tango?
It developed during the late nineteenth century in Buenos Aries, Argentina
Which southern string band did James Gideon (GID) Tanner lead?
Skillet Lickers
Which of the following is NOT true about James Reese Europe?
He was a cornet player and leader of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?
Tango
What style of music does the pieca represent?
Ragtime
Who of the following was an influential ragtime pianist and composer?
Scott Joplin
Who was the most influential songwriter of American popular song during the nineteenth century?
Stephen Foster
Which rhythmic technique is being demonstrated in this piece?
Syncopation
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 is the importance of this version of "La Cumparslta?"
The importance of Afro-Argentine musicians and the role of the guitar as the original form of instrumental accompaniment
Who of the following became the conductor of the U.S. Marine Band?
John Philip Sousa
Which of the following became the first nation-wide commercial radio network in 1926?
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
