Chapter 11 Music SB

T/F The electric instruments of a bluegrass band make the characteristic timbres light?

False

Identify an accurate statement about honky-tonk.

Honky-tonk singers addressed in the frankest terms harsh subjects relevant to the experience of uprooted or separated families

While Texas dance halls rang with the sounds of western swing bands, another country-western style developed in the intimate Texas bars and clubs called ___.

Honky-tonks

T/F Country music readily absorbs ethnic and regional styles, adapting them to become a part of the country sound.

True

In the context of the development of various styles of country music, identify an accurate statement.

As rural music evolved across America, a great body of modern country and folk musics appeared, of seemingly endless variety

Which of the following terms refers to accents on beats two and four instead of the usual one and three?

Backbeat

___ is a five-string musical instrument, on which one string played a constant or repeated pitch, or drone, ideal for accompanying hill or country music.

Banjo

In the 1930s and 1940s, Bill Monroe blended old-time string band music with the holler of the blues and the improvisation of jazz to create a music called _____, a virtuosic instrumental style rooted in mountain music such as the Carter Family performed.

Bluegrass

_____, who played fiddle and mandolin, punctuated the performance of his band, the Texas Playboys, with jive talking, falsetto asides, and cries of "ah-ha!" as heard in his signature tune "New San Antonio Rose."

Bob Wills

In the West, Mexican, Cajun, Hawaiian, and cowboy music flavored a new brand of country music, called _____.

Country-western

Even as some country musicians modified their twang and polished their performances, presenting country-style songs in a pop format in order to survive as commercial entertainers, _____ of country hits made by Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, and other popular singers appeared on the popular music charts.

Cover recordings

Jerry Douglas, an outstanding solo musician in Alison Krauss's band United Station, is a virtuoso performer on the _____—a wood-body resonator guitar with a metal cover plate over the sound hole and an aluminum cone for amplification.

Dobro

Which of the following women established a commanding presence in country music?

Dolly Parton Reba McIntyre

By the late 1920s, most Americans had radios, which brought hillbilly or old-time music and (white) religious country music, called ___ into homes across the country.

Gospel

___ is the most famous "Barn dance" radio show which debuted on a station in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1924 and had much to do with the establishment of Nashville as a base for the country music industry

Grand Ole Opry

Heard mainly along ___, where a blend of African American French Creole traditions has created a rich gumbo of musical flavors, contemporary zydeco bands combine the energy and amplification of the hottest rock groups with the exotic melodies and dialect of the cajuns to produce their own intoxicating music.

Gulf Coast?

_____, the greatest of all honky-tonk stars, joined Jimmie Rodgers as one of the first three inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961.

Hank Williams, Sr.

Identify an accurate statement about Hawaiian music

Hawaiian music, rooted in old religious chants and hymns, absorbed rhythms, sounds, and instruments brought by missionaries and settlers.

Identify an accurate statement about Jimmie Rodgers

He became the first person elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, established in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1961

Which of the following is a term that was somewhat scornfully applied to the music of country fiddlers, harmonica players, and singers of traditional country ballads?

Hillbilly

Identify an accurate statement about hillbilly music

Hillbilly music gained popularity as city listeners perceived the wealth of beauty and entertainment this style offered.

In the nineteenth century America, cowboy songs were extremely popular, many of them with lilting _____ tunes.

Irish

In 1932, as national record companies actively promoted commercial recordings of regional music, a folklorist named ___ traveled to Louisiana, where he recorded genuine traditional Cajun music for the Library of Congress.

John Lomax

Which of the following are true about women in Country music?

Most of the women who made early successful careers in country music were heavily influenced by pop stars Women in country music may be seen as crossover artists bridging country and pop.

_____ refers to the sophisticated, polished sound that Chet Atkins achieved by toning down rhythm sections and adding background voices to soften the harsh effect of traditional country music.

Nashville sound

In the context of American Folk ballads, identify an accurate statement about topical songs

Passionate interest in numerous social causes produced a large number of topical songs and most with a decidedly leftist bent

Which of the following statements is true about the musical culture of the eastern hills before the Civil War?

People of the hills passed the old tunes and performing customs from one generation to the next by the say of oral tradition.

Who among the following is credited with bringing the ukulele to Hawaii in 1879?

Portuguese immigrants

By loosening the strings, Hawaiians invented the _____, giving the instrument a characteristic resonance and allowing new styles of fingering and picking.

Slack key guitar

Which of the following statements are true about the musical contributions of the Carter Family?

The Carters laid the foundation for modern country music by collecting and recording American traditional songs. The Carters performed as a group, their harmony close and their voices tense

Identify an accurate statement about Cajun music.

The sound of Cajun music is prevailingly lighthearted, with dance rhythms and catchy melodies dominated by raucous sound of the accordion.

Which of the following is a true statement about cowboy songs of the late 1940s?

They had largely faded in popularity by the end of the decade

An accurate statement about Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs is that ___.

They left Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in 1948 to form their own group and developed a distinctive style of bluegrass

___ songs- personal stories relating current political or social events- have always had a place in American folk music.

Topical

The _____, a small guitar with four strings, attracted much enthusiasm at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, where the Hawaiian Pavilion featured Hawaiian songs, hula, and instrumental music.

Ukelele

Texans responded to the big band craze of the 1930s and 1940s with a dance band style of their own, called ___: To the piano, sax, brasses, and jazz rhythm section fo the eastern big band, texans added fiddles and the steel guitar while their singers added yodeling in the style of Jimmie Rodgers

Western Swing

Jimmie Rodgers had a natural ___ - a rapid alteration between full voice and falsetto- later imitated by many country singers.

Yodel

A more recent accordion-based music, ___, distinguished by spicy-hot Caribbean Latin rhythms, is the music of southern Louisiana's Creoles

Zydeco

Which of the following are true statements about honky-tonk music?

nearly all instruments, invluding the fiddle, were likely to be electrified in the honky-tonk band. Singers delivered rough, realistic lyrics in an earthy, matter-of-fact manner typical of the country style