MUSC 324 - MODULE I EXAM - J. LEMKE (MULTIPLE CHOICE ONLY)

Which big band got its first big break in 1934 on the radio program "Let's Dance," which was sponsored by the National Biscuit Company?

Benny Goodman and His Orchestra

Which classic blue singer known as the "Empress of the Blues" developed her singing style in rough-and-tumble black Vaudeville and tent show and famously recorded W.C. Handy's composition "St. Louis Blues" in 1925?

Bessie Smith

Walter Page (bass), Jo Jones (drums), and Freddie Green (guitar) formed the hard-swinging nucleus of which Kansas city-based big band?

Count Basie Orchestra

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

European American stream

Which artist was the focus of the first documented example of modern pop hysteria, the so-called Columbus Day Riot of 1944?

Frank Sinatra

What do you call the term that evokes the channeled flow of "swinging" or "funky" or "phat" rhythms?

Groove

The basic features of the blues form include which of the following?

all of the above

What did the music industry call recordings from the 1920's until the late 1940's that were made by African American artists and produced mainly for sale to African-American listeners?

Race records

What do you call a repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum?

Riff

Which country blues artist's guitar playing was so remarkable that stories circulated claiming he sold his soul to the devil?

Robert Johnson

Which Alabama-born musician called himself the "Father of the Blues" and composed hits like "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues?"

W.C. Handy

Which artist called himself the "Father of the Blues," wrote hits like "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues," and was the most influential of the classical blues composers?

W.C. Handy

the music industry's discovery of black music can be traced to a set of recordings made in the early 1920's by which black vaudeville performer?

Mamie Smith

Which artist was the first black musician to host his own weekly radio series (1948-1949) and the first to have a network television show (1956-1957)?

Nat "King" Cole

What do you call a memorable musical phrase or riff?

Hook