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MBU 2130 Exam 1 WithComplete Solution
"After the Ball" - ANSWER Biggest hit of the 1890s. Written by Charles K.
Harris. Sold over 2 million pieces of sheet music. Used in "Showboat"
"Livery Stable Blues" - ANSWER Recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz
Band
"Ragged time" or "broken time" - ANSWER Style of playing. Evolved from
marches, minstrels, and coon songs.
What did "varieties" lead to? - ANSWER vaudeville
"Don't Mourn: Organize" - ANSWER Expression often incorrectly to be last
words spoken by labor leader/activist and songwriter, Joe Hill. He was
convicted of murder and executed by a firing squad in Utah in 1915.
1877 - ANSWER The year that Edison invents the phonograph
Who was the African-American band leader at the Cotton Club? - ANSWER
Duke Ellington
Who was the African-American that worked with Castles? - ANSWER James
Reese Europe
Al Jolson - ANSWER Starred in "The Jazz Singer"
"The World's Greatest Entertainer"
Alexander Graham Bell - ANSWER Patented the telephone in 1876
,American Graphophone Copmpany - ANSWER Started by Philly businessmen
in 1877 to produce/sell the graphophone. Voltage company merged with
American Graphophone later to form Colombia Records.
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers - ANSWER ASCAP -
1st performing rights organization
Distributed royalties to rightful owners
American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) - ANSWER Formed in 1876 to
market the telephone and other inventions by Alexander Graham Bell
Amos n' Andy - ANSWER One of the first comedy shows on the radio.
"Water Cooler" show - brought the nation together by overcoming cultural
differences
Which artist had the first blues hit? - ANSWER Leroy Carr/ Blind Lemon
Jefferson
Which artist had the first country hit? - ANSWER Vernon Dalhart "The
Prisoner's Song"
Which artist had the first jazz hit? - ANSWER Mamie Smith "Crazy Blues"
Which artist recorded "Black and Tan Fantasy"? - ANSWER Duke Ellington
Which artist recorded "Crazy Blues"? - ANSWER Mamie Smith
Which artist recorded "Heebie Jeebies"? - ANSWER Louis Armstrong
Which artist recorded "Livery Stable Blues"? - ANSWER Original Dixieland
Jazz Band
Which artist recorded "The Prisoner's Song"? - ANSWER Vernon Dalhart
, Atlanta - ANSWER Beginning of hillbilly recording industry. Place where Polk
Brockman successfully pitched the idea of Fiddlin' Jimmy Carson
B.F Keith and Edward Albee - ANSWER Most powerful and successful
vaudeville operators
Who was the band leader known as the "King of Jazz"? - ANSWER Paul
Whiteman
Who began the Victor Talking Machine Company? - ANSWER Eldridge
Johnson
What was the biggest hit of the 1890s? - ANSWER "After the Ball"
Where was the birthplace of jazz? - ANSWER New Orleans
Bristol, Tennessee - ANSWER The place where Ralph Peer ran a series of
recording sessions using new electrical recording equipment in 1927
What was the business model of the early movie industry? - ANSWER
"Talkies"
What was the business model of the early phonograph industry? - ANSWER
10 visions of Edison***
Carter family - ANSWER First country family (A.P., Sarah, Maybelle)
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
Where was the center for music publishing? - ANSWER New York City
Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter - ANSWER Invented the graphophone
Circuses - ANSWER Traveling vaudeville acts
Coin-in-the Slots - ANSWER Jukeboxes
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