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History Of Rock & Roll Exam 1: Questions/Answers
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History Of Rock & Roll Exam 1: Questions/AnswersTin pan alley Right Ans - America's pop music industry who defined
popular music in the pre-rock and roll era. Sold sheet music that later went to
Hollywood movies
Irving Berlin Right Ans - Tin Pan Alley composer
George and Ira Gershwin Right Ans - Tin Pan Alley composer
Rogers and Hart Hammerstein Right Ans - Tin Pan Alley composer
Cole Porter Right Ans - Tin Pan Alley composer
Al Jolson Right Ans - First pop singer
Rudy Vallee Right Ans - First pop singer
Bing Crosby Right Ans - Crooner, pop singer, radio and film star - Created
superstar celebrity from selling 30+ million copies of "White Christmas"
Frank Sinatra Right Ans - First pop singer to create personal vocal style -
had macho/womanizing image
"I've Got You Under My Skin" Right Ans - Frank Sinatra - Capitol Records
Studios, Hollywood, CA in 1956
Swing era Right Ans - Big band jazz (swing) is dominant pop music and
new dance fads are common. no words, just instrumentals
Popular location for swing music Right Ans - New Orleans
Benny Goodman Right Ans - First star of the swing era - "Let's Dance" radio
program - Elvis of his generation
"King Porter Stomp" Right Ans - Recorded by Benny Goodman in 1935 and
was written by Jolly Roll Morton
, The Postwar Transitional Years Right Ans - 1946-1954: Race music (R&B)
and hillbilly music (country) emerge but major labels ignore these new styles.
Independent labels emerge
Music covers Right Ans - Rerecording of songs to make them "more
appropriate" - typically songs written by black artists are rerecorded by white
artists to sell to the white population
Pat Boone Right Ans - He was the most successful "cover" artist of early
Rock and Roll - Rerecorded R&B music and "white washed" them
Record sales history Right Ans - Dropped during the Great Depression
(1930s) but rebounded during the swing era. It was steady during the
transitional years but had an explosive growth with rock & roll (thanks Elvis)
Acoustical process Right Ans - The process used before 1925 in which an
acoustical horn captured and transferred sound vibrations to a stylus that cut
grooves onto a wax disc. There weren't any microphones and typically had to
be in person to listen to music
Electrical process Right Ans - the recording process in which microphones
are used to convert sound waves into an electrical signal. It was a one take
process (no do overs) and helped Bing Crosby take off as an artist
Magnetic tape recording Right Ans - Recording technology developed by
the Germans and the Japanese in the 1930s. It is a thin magnetizable coating
on a narrow strip of plastic film which allows for editing and longer recording
times
Albums Right Ans - Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948 - 33 1/3 rpm
(revolutions per minute) was popular with adults
Singles Right Ans - Introduced by RCA in 1949 - 45 rpm (revolutions per
minute) was popular with teens
Major record labels Right Ans - Columbia
RCA Victor
Decca
Capitol
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