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MUS 354 Question and answers already passed MUS 354: Part 1 Facts Exam Okeh Records - correct answer In January 1922, Okeh Records placed an advertisement in the Chicago Defender, a black newspaper, that announced "All the greatest race phonograph stars can be heard on Okeh Records ... Ask yo...

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MUS 354: Part 1 Facts Exam
Okeh Records - correct answer ✔In January 1922, Okeh Records placed an
advertisement in the Chicago Defender, a black newspaper, that announced
"All the greatest race phonograph stars can be heard on Okeh Records ... Ask
your neighborhood dealer for a complete list of Okeh race records." Okeh had
recorded Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" at the end of 1920. Its success opened
the door for other classic blues singers, most notably Bessie Smith. "Down
Hearted Blues," Smith's first recording for Columbia Records (now Sony), in
1923, reputedly sold over 1 million copies.


T/F: By the time the renamed chart made its first appearance on June 25,
1949, rhythm and blues (R&B) had become a small but significant part of the
record industry. - correct answer ✔True


Black musicians in the 20's - correct answer ✔During the twenties,
recordings by black musicians, mainly for a black audience, occupied a small
but important niche within the recording industry. Other major companies,
most notably Victor and Columbia (which would ultimately merge into Sony
BMG), created branches of their catalog to serve the "race" market. Joining
them in catering to the black community were small labels like Paramount and
W. C. Handy's Black Swan, which was bought by Paramount in 1924.
However, the race record part of the music industry almost went under during
the first years of the Depression. Sales of race records, which had been as
high as 5 percent of total sales at the end of the twenties, dropped to only 1
percent in the early thirties, and several record companies went out of
business or stopped recording black musicians.


T/F: Within a decade, rhythm and blues became part of what would soon be a
new kind of popular music. - correct answer ✔True


Business in the 30's - correct answer ✔Business began to pick up toward the
end of the thirties. By 1942, Billboard, then and now the bible of the

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