History of Rock n Roll WSU Exam 1 – Flashcards
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In the late 1400s, Portuguese used Black people as slaves for
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sugar cane in the new world
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When was New Orleans founded?
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1718
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How was Louisiana "easy" on slaves?
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In 1817 they started allowing Sunday breaks for them to sing/hang out in a place called Congo Square
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Slaves were human __________
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currency/not seen as people
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"Jump Jim Crow" degraded black men/made them look dumb & inhuman and was created in _____ and written by ______
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1828, Daddy Rice
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D.W. Griffin made a movie called _________ about black people getting their freedom after the Civil War
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"Birth of a Nation"
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_________ wrote music degrading black people, specifically a song called __________
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Stephan Foster, "Jenie with the Light Brown Hair"
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Reconstruction of the US which gave black culture a chance to be integrated into the US was in the time period of
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1865-1877
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The _______ ammendment abolished slavery during reconstruction (passed by republicans) and allowed black men to vote
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13th
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Americas first experience with Rock n Roll was a song called ____________
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"Rock around the Clock"
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who never wrote their own songs, was not appreciated because he liked black culture, and played Rockabilly music
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Elvis
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Elvis's career ended because
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he was drafted into the war
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Parts of a drum set:
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base drum, snare drum, hi hat, cymbals, mounted tom, floor tom
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Guitars were not commercially successful until ____ because ______
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The 1950s, the feedback
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________ came up with the idea of solid body guitars and came out with the stratacaster
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Gibson guitar company
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Leo Fender was a
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guitar builder
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Knobs on guitar control _____ and _____
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volume and tone
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Who made the sound of Rock & roll possible?
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Les Paul, because the pioneered the solid body electric guitar
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When was Boogie Woogie created and when did it become popular?
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1920s, became popular in late 1930s and early 1940s
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Whose nick name was "The Empress of the Blues" and what was her style of singing known as?
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Bessie Smith, Classic Blues
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Where was Boogie Woogie created and how many bars were in a progression?
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Texas, 12 bar blues
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Who became a famous boogie-woogie pianist in the late 1930's after Carnegie Hall?
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Meade "Lux" Lewis
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Jazz is slang for
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sex or prostitution in New Orleans
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What instrument was Louis Jordan famous for?
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Saxophone and also singing (Jump Bands)
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Frank Sinatra was the first teen _____ and the girls who followed him around were called ________
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idol; "Bobby soxers"
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Who grew up with black music and ran J&M Recording Studio, a black recording studio?
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Cosimo Matassa
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When and who coined the term for Rock n Roll (slang for sex)?
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Alan Freed, 1951
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Who was the first black musician to come across to white audiences by selling 30 million records in the 1950s alone?
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Fats Domino
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Why was Fats Domino so successful?
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His music was non-threatening/didn't reference sex, combined country with R&B
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Who was influenced by gospel,boogie-woogie, and R&B and wrote the song "Lucille" in 1951?
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Little Richard
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Who gave rock n roll its sound and how?
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Little Richard did with the train track drum beat sound
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Rockabilly was first played by _____ musicians
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White
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12 bar blues was also known as
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Delta blues
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Delta blues came out of southern region of the US in the state of
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Mississippi Delta region
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Robert Johnson has music still being played today but
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died at age 25 by poison
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Blues progress....
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4 bar phrase repeated 3 times
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What is AAB?
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a form of blues progress
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Rag Time was in the time period of
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1897-1917
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Rag Time music was written for
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Piano, sycipation
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OG Piano=
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piano (soft)
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what are the three types of piano?
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Grand, Baby Grand, Upright/Spinner
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What are the two types of music?
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good and bad
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Three elements to western music:
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melody, rythem, cords
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who became the king of Rockabilly?
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Charles Perkins
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Little Richard became a
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priest
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Buddy Holly died from
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a plane crash
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Chuck Berry charged for
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taking women across state lines
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Jerry Lee Lewis was black balled because
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he married his 13 year old couzin and forgot to divorce his first wife
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Jerry Lee Lewis was a
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composer, singer, and piano player
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Pat Boone
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took songs from black musicians to get white air play
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___________ recorded in Memphis (Sun Records)
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Ike Turner
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________ became Elvis's manager
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"Tom" Parker
