MUSI 2740 Exam 1 Quizzes

t/f: the cuban conjunto developed in the island's countryside around 1880 and was initially performed by farmers and workers who toiled in the island's sugar plantation economy

false

t/f: the first latin american style to have a major international impact was the cuban tango, the african influenced variant of the french country dance tradition

false

tin pan alley was the center of the commercial songwriting and publishing business in chicago from approximately the 1880s through the mid-twentieth century

false

"jazz babies" or "_______• were the emancipated young women with short skirts and bobbed hair of the jazz age

flappers

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 redult of the anti-jewish pogrom in 1892?

irving berlin

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

in the 1890s the first "nickelodeans"-machines that played the latest hits for a nickel-were set up in public places. (these machines later became known as _____)

jukeboxes

in 1925 electric recording, which used a new device called the _______, replaced the older system of acoustic recording, in which performers had to project into a huge megaphone

microphone

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

which is the best definition of "strophe"?

one repetition of verse-and-chorus within a song's structure

which group recorded the first jazz in 1917?

original dixieland jazz band

which of the following pieces is widely considered george gershwin's greatest work?

porgy and bess

_______ was a talent scout first at Okeh Records and then Victor who worked as an assistant on Mamie Smith's first recordings and sent mobile recording units into the south seeking out and recording local talent.

ralph peer

the _____ is "the main" part of the song, usually constructed in AABA and ABAC form

refrain

A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what?

riff

which 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

The real-time playing of media over the internet without the need for users to download the content first is referred to as ______

streaming

_______ 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

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

consider the following statement and choose the best response: many dance bands in the 1920s specialized in one of three main cateogories: "hot," "sweet," and "Latin"

the statement is true

what is 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 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

t/f: the emergence of ragtime in the 1880s evidenced the growing influence of african american style on popular music

true

t/f: the great depression proced calamitous for the record industry, as millions of americans were thrown out of work and did not possess the spare income to purchase records

true

which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the years around world war 1?

vernon and irene castle

t/f: "my blue heaven," "april showers," and "how deep is the ocean?" are all examples of tin pan alley ballads that have become standards

true

t/f: ballroom dancing focused more on uniformity and restraint than on improvisation or the expression of emotion

true

t/f: following on the heels of the ragtime fad, the jazz craze represented the intensification of african american influence on the music tastes and buying habits of white americans

true

t/f: george and ira gershwin wrote many songs in the 1920s and 30s that have become "standards" and a part of the "great american songbook"

true

t/f: the arranger of a song decides which instruments to use as accompaniment and what key the song should be in

true

t/f: the country blues largely emerged from the missisisspi delta regions and was first recorded in the mid-1920s

true

the self-titled "father of the blues" composed such hits as "memphis blues" and "st. louis blues," and was the most influential of the classic blues composers

w.c. handy

the ______ is a dance in triple-time with a strong emphasis on every third beat

waltz

the basic feathres of the blues form includes a

all of the above (three-line AAB text, twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each, basic three-chord pattern)

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

anglo-american stream

what is another common name for the bridge of a tin pan alley song?

b section

in rock music, the accenting of the second and fourth beat of a four-beat bar is referred to as the ______

backbeat

the rhythmic unit of music, consisting of one accented beat followed by one or more unaccented beats, is referred to as an _________, 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

_____ blues songs were written by professional songwriters eager to cash in on the national fascination with "authentic negro music"

classic

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

crooning

t/f: many tin pan alley songs dealt directly with troubling and social issues of the 1920s and 30s including racism, women's suffrage, and the rise of facism

false

t/f: popular music has been wholly successful in avoiding the perpetuation of stereotypes?

false

t/f: the classic blues included artists like charley patton, blind lemon jefferson, and robert johnson

false