Chapter One – Flashcards
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Why did regional boundaries in popular culture begin to diminish in the 1920's?
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Technological and marketing development in radio and motion pictures made the same kind of popular entertainment available throughout the country
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What is the significance of Amos 'n' Andy in popular culture?
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Its use of racial stereotypes, drawn from the minstrel tradition, would be unacceptable today, but the adventures and mishaps of Amos and Andy held the attention of the entire U.S.
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What is (was) Tin Pan Alley?
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a. Sheet music business was concentrated in an Informal district of NYC, where songwriters and producers clustered to form the geographic heart of the industry
b. Has become shorthand not only for the body of music produced at that time, but also for a way of doing business and a style of American popular music
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What musical characteristics does Big Band music emphasize?
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a. The band
b. Instrumental playing
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How did Frank Sinatra begin his musical career?
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a. Established a new model for the pop-music singer
b. Sinatra made the singer the star of the show
c. Was a singer with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands and went solo in 1942, changing emphasis of the music to the vocalist.
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For what type of audience was mainstream pop primarily produced in the early 1950's?
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Family audience and teenagers were expect to enjoy the same music as their parents and grand-parents.
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Ralph Peer made early recordings of what type of music?
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Hillbilly Music
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With what is Western music often associated?
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Wide open prairie of the cowboys
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What was Jimmie Rodger's trademark in terms of his performance style?
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His trademark yodel.
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From where was the Grand Ole Opry broadcast
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Nashville, TN
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The intermingling of soldiers from all regions of the United States during the 1940's helped spread the popularity of what type of music?
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Country Music
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What did the Acuff-Rose publishing firm rely on for sales of its music?
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They worked to have the firms songs recorded and performed by country artists.
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To what source can the development of bluegrass be primarily traced?
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a. Commercial music
b. Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys
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Of what type of music is Louis Jordan and his Typani Five an example?
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Jump Blues
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Name the important independent record labels of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Decca, Mercury, RCA-Victor, Columbia, Capitol, and MGM.
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Name at least 3 examples of Chicago blues musicians?
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Little walter, howlin' wolf, bo diddly, muddy waters
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Name some music characteristics that were blended in songs released by atlantic records?
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a. Polished pop sound
b. Showcasing singers and the song instead of the instrumental playing
c. Backup arrangements that were structured
d. Rare solos
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To what does the term Doo-Wop refer?
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People that couldn't really afford instruments. Professional studio musicians learned the groups arrangements in order to accompany them. These recordings formed a body of music called "doo wop", after the nonsense syllables singers used in their arrangements.
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To what does the Stagger Lee myth refer?
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The idea that some black men are especially defiant, and often driven sexually.
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Of what musical style is Big Joe Turners "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" an example ?
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Hokum blues tradition as it appeared in rhythm and blues of the 1950s.
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In addition to the lyrics, what does Bill Haley's version of "shake, Rattle, and Roll change?
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a. Made the lyrics acceptable to white audiences
b. Made the song seem harmless
c. References to bed and sensuality were replaced with more wholesome images
d. The rhythmic feel- pushing the beats
