MUSC103- American Popular Music Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Musc 103
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Musc 103
MUSC103- American Popular Music
Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
The Ballad comes from which stream of music? - CORRECT ANSWER - European
American
A person who sang primarily for commercial song promotion or political reasons is known as a -
CORRECT ANSWER - Ballad...
MUSC103- American Popular Music
Midterm UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
The Ballad comes from which stream of music? - CORRECT ANSWER - European
American
A person who sang primarily for commercial song promotion or political reasons is known as a -
CORRECT ANSWER - Balladmonger
What was the sole influence of American Popular Music from the American Revolution to the
mid-19th century? - CORRECT ANSWER - European Music (European Stream)
In describing the American Ballad, what was the one difference from the European Ballad? -
CORRECT ANSWER - The lyrics. They were usually less introspective and often dealt
with criminals, murder, or fatal disasters.
An early form of sheet music, with lyrics only is known as a - CORRECT ANSWER -
Broadside
_____ was known as "Satchelmouth" or "Satchmo" and was the leading jazz musician in the
1930s - CORRECT ANSWER - Louis Armstrong
Who became the trailblazer for the profession of songwriters, as the first full time songwriter in
America? - CORRECT ANSWER - Stephen Foster
____ was the first white performer to establish a wide reputation as a "blackface" entertainer. He
composed a song made up of nonsense syllables. - CORRECT ANSWER - George
Washington Dixon
, _____ falsely claimed that white musicians in New Orleans had invented jazz - CORRECT
ANSWER - Nick LaRocca
_____ was the black composer from early Tin Pan Alley who wrote similar songs to his white
contemporaries, including plantation songs and minstrel tunes. - CORRECT ANSWER -
James Bland
Shifting the melodic accents to the off beats is defined as - CORRECT ANSWER -
Syncopation
What was the type of show that was the successor of the minstrel show and popularized many of
the songs from early Tin Pan Alley? - CORRECT ANSWER - Vaudeville
This was a concentration of music publishing firms and it was called ______ because of the
sound created by all of the pianos playing simultaneously - CORRECT ANSWER - Tin
Pan Alley
"The Jazz Singer" was the first _______ in 1927 - CORRECT ANSWER - Talkie
_________ were the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion
pictures only costing a nickel - CORRECT ANSWER - Nickelodeons
Duke Ellington developed a style that he called ________, featuring dense textures and dark,
growling timbres often featured at the cotton club. - CORRECT ANSWER - Jungle Music
_______, leader of Vernon and Irene Castle's band, joined the military in WWI and become the
bandleader of a military band. He was tragically murdered by one of his band members. -
CORRECT ANSWER - James Reese Europe
_______ developed the idea of "franchising" a band - CORRECT ANSWER - Paul
Whiteman
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