Chapter 1 Quiz Questions
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.
Informal worship spaces organized by enslaved people were referred to as "hush quarters."
True
T/F Critical listening is listening that consciously seeks out meaning in music by drawing on knowledge of how music is put together, its cultural significance, and its historical development.
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 type of music most closely associated with the mid-19th century's "Great Awakening" was a body of sacred songs called spirituals.
True
From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?
Anglo-American stream
T/F Originally an oral tradition passed down in unwritten form, ballads were eventually circulated on large sheets of paper called handbills, the ancestors of today's sheet music.
False
T/F Popular music has been wholly successful in avoiding the perpetuation of stereotypes.
False
T/F The first Latin American style to have a major international impact was the Cuban tango, an African-influenced variant of the French country dance tradition.
False
T/F The huge region of Africa from which enslaved people were drawn-the areas bordering more than eight thousand miles of Atlantic coastline stretching from current-day Senegal to Angola--shared a singular, monolithic culture.
False
T/F Until the mid-1990s, the stylistic mainstream of American popular music was largely oriented toward the tastes of white, middle- or upper-class, Protestant, urban people.
False
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.
A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what?
Riff
Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner lead?
Skillet Lickers
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
Initially played by musicians in Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires, the _______ was influenced by the Cuban habanera rhythm, the African-influenced milonga, Italian and Spanish popular songs, and the songs of the guitar-playing Argentine gauchos
Tango
Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?
Tango
Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bel canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?
Backbeat
A _______ is a type of song consisting usually of verses set to a repeating melody in which a story-often romantic, historic, or tragic-is sung in narrative fashion.
Ballad
Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bel canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?
Carlos Gardel
Which of the following is true about the diddley bow?
It is a musical instrument adapted from the African one-stringed zither.
Which is true about Brazilian bossa nova music?
It was popularized in the United States by songs like "The Girl from Ipanema."
T/F The onset of quarantining in response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 led to a dramatic decline in creativity and an accompanying decline in the purchase of music creation software such as Apple's GarageBand, as well as musical instrument sales by online vendors such as Sweetwater, Guitar Center, Reverb, and other retailers.
False
