MUS 354 Question and answers rated A+ MUS 354 (WWR): EXAM #1
in 1883 the first minstrel show began performing in New York. what was their name? - correct answer the Virginia Minstrels
Blues Lecture 2: Ma Rainey was known as ____________ as well as Bessie Smith? - correct answer "Mother of...
MUS 354 (WWR): EXAM #1
in 1883 the first minstrel show began performing in New York. what was their
name? - correct answer ✔the Virginia Minstrels
Blues Lecture 2: Ma Rainey was known as ____________ as well as Bessie
Smith? - correct answer ✔"Mother of the Blues"
City/Classic Blues - correct answer ✔-Generally performed on stage
-Much more formal
-Usually accompanied by a piano, sometimes use a trumpet for call &
response
-More refined vocal style so usually women sang it more than men
-Set form
-First "composed" by WC Handy
-first kind of blues recorded in the early 1920s
The first African American Recording of the blues: - correct answer ✔"Crazy
Blues" by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds
Ma Rainey - correct answer ✔-born Gertrude Malissa "Ma" Pridgett on April
26, 1886 in Columbus, GA.
-"Mother of the Blues" likely the first one to add blues to her act in 1902
-began her show with a traveling tent act at the turn of the century
-married PA rainey in 1904 and the two performed together as rainey and
rainey, assassinators of the blues
, Thomas Dorsey - correct answer ✔some call him "father of Gospel" played
with Rainey in her georgia Jazz Band
"Barrel House Blues" - correct answer ✔recorded by Ma Rainey in 1923
(piano, clarinet, cornet)
-12 bar blues
-group improvisation in the breaks
-something abt lovey austin lol
-nanny goat clarinet vibrato
-urban blues or dixieland jazz - these early styles melted together
When was Ma Rainey inducted into the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame? Under what
category was she inducted into? - correct answer ✔Ma Rainey was inducted
into the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Under the category roots of rock
early influences.
Bessie Smith - correct answer ✔-The most famous classic blues singer of
this period (1920 through 1930.)
-Her talent and influence earned her the title "empress of the blues"
-combined the emotional fervor of country blues, the sophistication of city
blues, and the big race appeal jazz
-began recording before Ma Rainey
Bessie Smith's first recording sessions produced - correct answer ✔Down
hearted blues and golf coast blues
Down hearted blues - correct answer ✔Bessie Smith's Feb 16 1923 hit sold
over a million copies
-added in 2002 to the Library of Congress national recording registry
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