Question 1

True or False. The Native American population after the Civil War swiftly declined in the face of war, disease, and poverty.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

True or False. William Cody collected recordings of more than two-thousand Native American tribal songs over fifty years.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

True or False. Most popular culture in nineteenth-century America challenged, sensationalized, and distorted portrayals of the Native American.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

True or False. Frances Densmore\'s recordings of Native American music provided a faithful, accurate document of the Native American music making experience.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Which of the following acts is the latest?  a) Indian Removal Act  b) Indian Nationality Act   c) Indian Citizenship Act   d) Indian Reorganization Act

Accepted Answer

b) Indian Nationality Act

Question 6

Which figure did NOT attempt a scholarly study of Native American culture?   a) Alice C. Fletcher  b) William Cody  c) Frances Densmore  d) Francis La Flesche

Accepted Answer

b) William Cody

Question 7

True or False. American labor unions emerged in the early 1800s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

The image of the outspoken, educated, middle-class American emerging as the \"new negro\" became a harbinger of the _____________ of the 1920s and 1930s.   a) Minstrel Show  b) Vaudeville Tradition   c) Harlem Renaissance   d) Swing Era

Accepted Answer

c) Harlem Renaissance

Question 9

Who among the following did NOT contribute to the large body of song that took shape in the American West?   a) Miners  b) Loggers  c) Mormons   d) Bankers

Accepted Answer

d) Bankers

Question 10

George L. White established __________ in 1870.  a) Appalachain settlement schools   b) The Tuskegee Institute   c) Fiske University   d) The Fiske Jubilee Singers

Accepted Answer

d) The Fiske Jubilee Singers

Question 11

in 1915, Cecil Sharp learned of a community maintaining an ancient folk song tradition from the British Isles in the mountains of:   a) Pennsylvania  b) Virginia   c) North Carolina  d) South Carolina

Accepted Answer

c) North Carolina

Question 12

The concert spiritual was:   a) A concertized stage presentation of the minstrel show  b) A form of African American opera   c) An expression of African American experience grounded in folk music   d) An expression of African American experience that incorporated the manner of European classical music

Accepted Answer

d) An expression of African American experience that incorporated the manner of European classical music

Question 13

__________ collected, transcribed, and recorded Hispanic folk songs.   a) Frances Densmore  b) William Cody  c) Cecil Sharp   d) Charles F. Lummis

Accepted Answer

d) Charles F. Lummis

Question 14

The motivations behind the preservation and dissemination of African American folk music, spirituals, and slave songs are closely connected with similar concerns regarding _____________ music in the later nineteenth century.   a) Native American   b) Hispanic   c) Anglo-Celtic   d) Labor

Accepted Answer

a) Native American

Question 15

True or False. Johann Gottfried von Herder\'s notion of \"das Volk\" was closely tied to ideas of political ideology.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

How many Native Americans were alive in 1865?   a) One hundred thousand  b) Three hundred thousand   c) One million   d) Four million

Accepted Answer

b) Three hundred thousand

Question 17

William Francis Allen published:   a) Alliance and Labor Songster   b) Slave Songs of the United States   c) Spanish Songs of Old California   d) Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians

Accepted Answer

b) Slave Songs of the United States

Question 18

True or False. The nineteenth century saw a significant increase in the quantity and quality of Native American ethnography.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

True or False. By the 1800s, collections of Anglo-Celtic ballads were more interested in ballad reworkings than the earlier British forms.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Which of the following skews the historical record of preserving Native American music culture in the 1800s?   a) Incompleteness of the surviving data   b) Difference between music in its natural habitat and outside   c) Contrast between native and non-native perceptions of Native American ways   d) All of the above

Accepted Answer

d) All of the above

Question 21

Victor Herbert composed how many operettas?  a) 40  b) 60   c) 80  d) 110

Accepted Answer

a) 40

Question 22

Irving Berlin\'s \"immigrant\" song period existed from:   a) 1890-1899  b)1900-1910  c)1912-1917  d)1920-1930

Accepted Answer

c)1912-1917

Question 23

True or False. Al Jolson was not connected to the musical comedy tradition.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

The key to the distinctive voice in American musicals was:   a) Ragtime   b) Popular Song   c) Minstrelsy   d) opera

Accepted Answer

b) Popular Song

Question 25

True or False. New York City\'s Metropolitan Opera opened in 1861.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

Many early twentieth-century operas composed for the Metropolitan Opera focused on which of the following groups as a subject matter? a) Native Americans   b) African Americans   c) Italian Americans   d) German Americans

Accepted Answer

a) Native Americans

Question 27

True or False. Despite the regular presence of ragtime in most popular music of this period, only songs having to do with African American subject matter were considered ragtime.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

True or False. Between 1910 and 1920, the Metropolitan Opera especially encouraged creative opera efforts by American composers, and many won an enduring place in the repertory.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

Scott Jolpin\'s first published rag was entitled.   a) Mississippi Rag   b) Maple Leaf Rag   c) The Entertainer   d) Treemonisha

Accepted Answer

a) Mississippi Rag

Question 30

The most successful black musician to bring music from the black folk tradition into the popular sphere was:   a) Will Marion Cook   b) Matilda Sissieretta Jones   c) Al Jolson  d) Scott Joplin

Accepted Answer

d) Scott Joplin

Question 31

Irene and Vernon Castle were known for:   a) Offering dance lessons of \"exotic\" styles for the mainstream  b) Providing critical reviews of early ragtime music  c) Recording coon songs   d) Promoting the interests of early African American professional musicians

Accepted Answer

a) Offering dance lessons of \"exotic\" styles for the mainstream

Question 32

True or False. British theatrical imports dominated the American stage throughout the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

True or False. Black minstrel shows set the stage for the careers of professional African American entertainers after the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

True or False. George M. Cohen\'s \"I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune\" made references to foregoing operatic repertoire.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

Musical comedy differed from operetta in that:  a) It was inspired heavily by church music   b) It was exclusively American   c) It involved relatively few actual musical numbers   d) Its settings and characters were contemporary

Accepted Answer

d) Its settings and characters were contemporary

Question 36

________ pervaded all three entertainment types of theater, song, and dance.   a) Folk music traditions   b) Minstrelsy   c) Hymn Tunes   d) Ragtime

Accepted Answer

d) Ragtime

Question 37

The landmark United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson occurred in:   a) 1876  b) 1896  c) 1910  d) 1917

Accepted Answer

b) 1896

Question 38

Which of the following would have been viewed as the lowest form of musical entertainment during the early twentieth century?  a) Operetta   b) Revue   c) Burlesque   d) Vaudeville

Accepted Answer

c) Burlesque

Question 39

True or False. New York City\'s Metropolitan Opera toured Mexico.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

Typically, operetta differed from opera in that:   a) It presented less sophisticated musical challenges to performers  b) The plots were carried by spoken dialogue   c) It deal solely in historical and political narratives   d) It was far less popular than opera

Accepted Answer

b) The plots were carried by spoken dialogue

Question 41

True or False. Jimmie Rodgers was the first undisputed solo star of country music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

True or False. Advantages such as literacy, music lessons that promoted literacy, ownership of musical instruments-especially the piano- were beyond the reach of many Americans, especially in the least prosperous regions of the country.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

True or False. An example of a new up-to-date musical comedy of the 1920s was The Student Prince with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

Of the following, the earliest recorded blues singer was:   a) Mamie Smith   b) Bessie Smith   c) Ethel Waters   d) Alberta Hunter

Accepted Answer

a) Mamie Smith

Question 45

Some hillbilly music fits neatly into the category of __________, but much of it does not.   a) Ragtime   b) Folk   c) Musical Comedy  d) Tin Pan Alley

Accepted Answer

b) Folk

Question 46

True or False. The blues was developed by whites in the rural South.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

The newly discovered market for African American musicians playing the blues was dubbed:   a) Blues toones   b) Black blues   c) Race records   d) Okeh records

Accepted Answer

c) Race Records

Question 48

True or False. The blues would go on to influence nearly every style of music that developed in its wake.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

When A&R man was hired by Okeh Records to comb the rural South in search of new artists for the white Southern market?   a) \"Fiddlin\' John\" Carson  b) Ralph Peer  c) Jimmie Rodgers  d) A.P. Carter

Accepted Answer

b) Ralph Peer

Question 50

Like Tin Pan Alley, Broadway embraced ragtime and, from the 1920s until well after World War II, many popular songs would display some degree of __________ influence.   a) Hillbilly   b) Blues   c) Minstrel  d) Folk

Accepted Answer

b) Blues

Question 51

Show Boar significantly fused which two dramatic genres?   a) Opera and Operetta   b) Musical comedy and Operetta   c) Tin Pan Alley and musical comedy   d) Hillbilly and Operetta

Accepted Answer

b) Musical Comedy and Operetta

Question 52

True or False. Most show songs that won popularity in the years between the two world wars were about romantic love.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

Jimmie Rodgers\'s style and output borrowed deeply from ___________ music practice and culture.   a) African American   b) European   c) Sacred   d) Jewish American

Accepted Answer

a) African American

Question 54

Outside his work with the Carter Family music group, A.P. Carter was:   a) A church organist  b) A minister  c) A lawyer   d) An amateur song catcher

Accepted Answer

d) An amateur song catcher

Question 55

True or False. In the years between the two world wars, the boundaries between country music and other genres were clearly marked.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 56

The Carter Family was from:   a) Georgia  b) Tennessee  c) Virginia  d) South Caroline

Accepted Answer

c) Virginia

Question 57

Two acts that would eventually transform country music from a small specialty market into a major segment of the American music industry were:  a) The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers   b) \"Fiddlin\' John\" Carson and W.C. Handy  c) Ethel Waters and Alberta Hunter  d) Joe \"King\" Oliver and Louis Armstrong

Accepted Answer

a) The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers

Question 58

True or False. A lively tradition of stage musical entertainment developed in the rural South disseminating new songs at a time when minstrel and vaudeville shows were largely urban phenomena.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 59

In what year was the electric microphone introduced into the recording studio?  a) 1910  b) 1915  c) 1920  d) 1925

Accepted Answer

b) 1925

Question 60

Of the following, which is NOT an explicitly successful ingredient for an independent show tune?   a) Sentimentality   b) Simplicity   c) Memorability   d) Interesting lyrical subject matter

Accepted Answer

a) Sentimentality

Question 61

True or False. Duke Ellington toured for the U.S. State Department in the 1950s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 62

True or False. When Varese looked to science for compositional inspiration, Rudhyar found in spiritualism a similar inspiration to create a highly dissonant, nontraditional- sounding music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 63

In which city is jazz believed to have originated?  a) Chicago  b) New York   c) New Orleans   d) Los Angeles

Accepted Answer

c) New Orleans

Question 64

True or False. The music of Henry Cowell drew on Chinese, Japanese, African, South Indian, Javanese, and Irish musics.

Accepted Answer

True

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