Roots of Rock Exam Questions and Answers Solved

Roots of Rock Exam Questions and Answers Solved Minstrelsy - -Traveling Entertainment, comic skits, variety acts, dancing, music -Usually done in black face -Taken over by Vaudeville Stephen Foster - -Mid 19th century -Most Successful SONG WRITER in America -Jeanie with the light brown hair AABA (32 Bar Song Form) - -Stated, restated with different words, something new, restated again with different words -Common in Tin Pan Alley -"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" Tin Pan Alley - -District in lower Manhattan -Composers, lyricists, song pluggers -New more exciting kinds of songs -SONGS FOCUSED ON CHORUS Verse Refrain (Verse-Chorus) - The chorus begins to take on a bigger role and becomes the backbone of the song -"After the Ball" Crooning - -A male singer, usually backed by a big band or piano who is singing with a lot of emotion -Used by Al Jolson Al Jolson - -At the peak of his career, was considered "the worlds greatest entertainer" -Star of the Jazz Singer -Enjoyed performing in Black Face -Extroverted Style George and Ira (Israel) Gershwin - -Lived in Brooklyn New York -Jewish Heritage -George (Composer) -Ira(Lyricist) -Tina Pan Alley Irving (Israel) Berlin () - -Russian Jewish Origin -Considered one of the greatest songwriters in American History Technology (Tin Pan Alley) - -Phonograph, Radio, Sound Film, Microphone Blues - -Repetitive Verse Structure -Subject Matter -"Blue's Notes" Classic Blues (composed) - -Popular Music Industry: Vaudeville WC Handy (1920s) - "St. Louis Blues" Bessie Smith () - -Recordings extremely popular -Blues and other popular songs -Used a range of subject matter Ma Rainey () - "Stag-o-lee Blues" 12 Bar Blues - -Most common form of blues -Harmony Built off of the 1st 4th and 5th note Race Records - The Majority of Black Americans commercial recordings were put on a phonograph record and marketed to blacks Rural Blues - Guitar Accompaniment, Work Songs, Dominated by men, not 12 bar Highway 61 and Highway 49 - Musicians would travel up and down these highways, performing Blind Lemon Jefferson () - -EAST TEXAS -Records among the top selling of all time -Recorded in Chicago Mississippi Delta Blues - Charley Patton, Son House, Tommy Johnson, Robert Lockwood, Robert Johnson Robert Johnson, Mississippi () - -Focused on the devil -"Sweet Home Chicago" -"Terraplane Blues"-Raunchy Jazz in New Orleans - -Racial/Ethnic Melting Pot (Creoles, Ex-Slaves, European Immigrants) -"Congo Square" slaves could go to dance -"Second Line" jazz at funerals Storyville- center of jazz up to 1917 Dixieland - Early Jazz that was started in New Orleans and eventually spread to New York and Chicago Louis Armstrong () - -Elevation of soloing