"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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