MUSI 2740
Listen to Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan's recording of La Negra. Which instrument is NOT heard in this band?
flute
Which white actor invented the minstrel character "Jim Crow?"
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
By the turn of the twentieth-century, what form of popular theater became the most important medium for popularizing Tin Pan Alley songs?
Vaudeville
Listen to Dink Robert's recording of Coo Coo. The call-and-response, syncopated rhythms, improvisation, and use of song as social commentary are all elements of which musical tradition?
African American
Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner lead?
Skillet Lickers
Which white banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels?
Daniel Emmett
From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?
Anglo-American stream
Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bel canto singing and the criollosongs 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 but popular traditions such as minstrelsy.
Which of the following is true about the Afro-Cuban rumba?
It accompanies dances featuring sexual role-playing and was originally suppressed by Cuban authorities.
Which of the following is true about the diddley bow?
It is a musical instrument adapted from the African one-stringed zither.
Which is the best definition of "strophe?"
One repetition of verse-and-chorus within a song's structure
Which 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 Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?
Tango
A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what?
Riff
What was the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character?
The minstrel show
Listen to the Skillet Lickers play Soldier's Joy. According to the singer, how much does the morphine cost?
25 cents
Listen to Jean Ritchie's rendition of Barbary Allen. How many lines of lyrics are in each verse?
4
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 nineteenth century until the 1920s?
They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them.
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Alva Edison
Which of the following 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 conductor of the US Marine Band?
John Philip Sousa
Listen to Lightning Washington and his fellow inmates sing Long John. What is the percussive sound being made between the call-and-response singing?
chopping logs
