music 14 exam 1

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 criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?

Carlos Gardel

Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues?"

Creole Jazz Band

Which white banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels?

Daniel Emmett

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 NOT true about James Reese Europe?

a. He was the musical director for Vernon and Irene Castle. b. He was a cornet player and leader of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. c. He formed an all-black infantry regiment from Puerto Rico called the "Hell Fighters." d. He was the musical director for several all-black vaudeville revues. e. He was born into a middle-class family in Mobile, Alabama, and moved to Washington, D.C., in 1889. b.

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

riff

Which is the best definition of "strophe?"

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

Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917?

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner lead?

Skillet Lickers

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 categories, "hot," "sweet," and "Latin."

The statement is true.

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

By the turn of the twentieth-century, what form of popular theater became the most important medium for popularizing Tin Pan Alley songs?

Vaudeville

Which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the years around World War I?

Vernon and Irene Castle

Which song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Band sold 2 million copies and featured the Swanee whistle (slide whistle), a novelty that helped sell the record?

Whispering

Which of the following was an influential ragtime pianist and composer?

Scott Joplin

Which of the following became the conductor of the US Marine Band?

John Philip Sousa

Which of the following became the first nationwide commercial radio network in 1926?

National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

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 tango?

It developed during the late nineteenth century in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Which of the following is true about the diddley bow?

It is a musical instrument adapted from the African one-stringed zither.

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 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 white actor invented the minstrel character "Jim Crow?"

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Who lead the Ambassador Orchestra, the most successful dance band of the 1920s?

Paul Whiteman