Download The Evolution of American Popular Music Before Rock and Roll and more Exams Social Sciences in PDF only on Docsity! History of rock and roll exam 1 lecture 1 popular music before rock n roll Life in america before rock and roll - answers-no radios,tvs, cds, tapes etc... If you want to hear music play it yourself. Local music will have? - answers-minstrel shows What was white america like? - answers-parents would choose what the family listened to What was black america like? - answers-still slaves. Music on the plantation in the fields and on the front porch Music during "spiritual meetings" Not much money for musical instruments so they used their voice. Traveling minstrel shows (1830-1900) date not important. - answers- What is the traveling minstrel show? - answers-traveling mistrel shows is the 1st indigenous form of american entertainment. Such as comic skits, variety acts, dancing and music. Who were the two composers of the tin pan alley? - answers-irving berlin and george gershwin What is crooning? What else do you need in order to be heard? - answers-crooning is a smooth singing style based on opera but quieter. You need a microphone in order to be heard. Who is the first multimedia star who sang "white christmas" using crooning style? - answers-bing cosby What is big band/ swing era - answers-big band is a large ensemble that plays jazz Who were the performers of the minstrel shows? - answers-performed by white people in black faces. How were the african americans portrayed in minstrel shows? - answers-they see them as ignorant, lazy, joyous and musical, very racist. He is a white american composer in the minstrel tradition "camptown races" (1850) "old kentucky home" (1853) He also told performers not to mock slaves but garner sympathy. - answers-steven foster __________ district in manhattan? - answers-tin pan alley It dominated the music publishing industry, sound of pianos and different tunes at once like banging on "tin cans" - answers-tin pan alley What instrument do you need in a big band/ swing ? - answers-trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm section such as bass, drums, piano and guitar. Big band = - answers-dixieland jazz Big band used a " shuffle= - answers-shuffle means swing rhythm feel taken from blues music Big bands instruments are for? - answers-for swing dance Example of big band/ swing.... "sing, sing,sing" ( feautring gene krupa in drums) - answers-benny goodman orchestra He is inspired by simple british dances like the jig and the waltz ( usually performed on the fiddle) and folk and hymn tunes - answers-fiddlin john carson First country music performer who is a "hillbilly" and to be the first broadcast on radio and recorded on record - answers-fiddlin john carson He cut two sldes in 1923, okeh records president ralph peer called them " pluperfect awful" but sold well - answers-fliddlin john carson He is a pioneering musicologist and folklorist Specialized in english literature at university of texas - - answers-john lomax He showed cowboys songs he had written to them to an english professor, only to have them discounted " cheap and unworthy" - answers-john lomax Who had a disc cutting machine installed in trunk of car? - answers-john lomax First country music superstar - answers-jimmy rogers He sang " singing brakeman" and "blue yodeler" Wrote most of his songs. Wrote songs about home, family and sweethearts and lives of hoboes. - answers-jimmy rogers
