History of Rock Music Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+
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History of Rock Music Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+
Both work songs and field hollers sometimes referred to a "captain" as the person who - Answers Over saw their work
Call and response - Answers A leader sings out a phrase and the group then signs a copy version to that phra...
History of Rock Music Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Graded A+
Both work songs and field hollers sometimes referred to a "captain" as the person who - Answers Over
saw their work
Call and response - Answers A leader sings out a phrase and the group then signs a copy version to that
phrase
Field holler - Answers An individual worker signs laments about the tasks required of him or her
Recordings became so important in rock music that many performers would ______ to the recordings of
their songs - Answers Lip sync
Identify the features of country blues conposers and performers - Answers They sang texts that were
often rough yet highly expressive
They usually accompanied themselves on battered guitars
The invention of the ____ helped make singers in swing bands sing in styles that were different from
earlier popular singing styles - Answers Microphone
____ bands played jazz related music and individual musicians were allowed to improvise solos in a jazz
style but the bands themselves were bigger than earlier jazz bands and improvisation time was limited -
Answers Swing
Identify the technological developments in 1948 that helped popularize rock music - Answers Transistor
radios
45 rpm single records
33 1/2 rpm long playing records
Front line - Answers One trumpet of cornet one clarinet and one trombone
Rhythm section - Answers Banjo guitar or piano or some combination of them; string bass or tuba; and
drums
The style of blues that had the most direct influence on the development of rock music came from the
Mississippi delay and was called - Answers Delta blues
Uneven beat subdivisions - Answers Characteristics of the blues
Even beat subdivisions - Answers Common in folk or county music
A ____ refers to three or more notes played together - Answers Chord
, What was the most common feature of tin on alley songs - Answers They were simple and easy to
remember
The biggest difference between Tin Pan Alley music and rock music - Answers Rock music was usually
sold as records whereas Tin Pan Alley music was sold as sheet music for consumers to play themselves
Swing bands often backed male singers who sang in a style known as - Answers Crooning
___ happens when a musician decided what to play while he or she is playing it - Answers Improvisation
The earliest known blue styles were called ____ because of their origins in rural areas of the US
particularly the south - Answers Country blues
The 45 rpm single records were popular because - Answers They allowed for the inexpensive purchase
of an individual song with another on the reverse side
American blues - Answers This functioned as a personal expression of an individual who suffered from a
lack of human respectability
The griot song - Answers This was central to the dominant social structure in Africa
What does the name tin pan refer to? - Answers The thin, tinny tone sound quality of cheap upright
pianos used by the music publishers
Part of the general character of the blues was created by bending the pitches of notes to what were
called - Answers Blue notes
The rhythm of the blues form is organized into four beat patterns each of which is called a - Answers Bar
Which of the following is true of independent radio stations that sprang up in the late forties - Answers
They used disc jockeys as entertainers and were not afraid to play rock recordings
What is the technique for playing blue notes on a guitar without a bottleneck called - Answers String
bending
What helped New York music publishers gain control of the popular music publishing industry during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Answers The increasing popularity of vaudeville shows
and the tremendous amount of music they required
How did white teenagers become acquainted with rhythm and blues in the late forties - Answers
Through the radio
African American musicians trained in country blues, who moved from the rural south to large northern
cities post world war 1, developed the urban blues style. The solo instruments in most urban blues
played by these musicians included the - Answers Saxophone or other wind instruments
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