Early 20th C Popular Music Thru Rock 'n' Roll

Blackboard Jungle was a move about

Who was the headliner for Swing Band shows?

Nearly all pop music can fit into these two broad categories

Once Swing ended, it never found a revitalization period later on

Late 40's and early 50's music is full of great classics that withstood the test of time

Who was the Swing Band that "started" the Swing Era in the summer of 1935?

TV changed music in the 50s for all of the following EXCEPT:

Much of the Swing Band melodies came from what preexisting musical tradition?

True/False - this "King" embraced his success and died happy and fulfilled

The repeal of which constitutional ammendment in 1933 gave the US a "Let's Party" attitude

Blues is still a common form in popular music

The difficult technique a Ragtime pianist must use in the left hand

What piece of technology was almost single-handedly responsible for sparking the Swing Era?

The downfall of Swing came from all EXCEPT

Ragtime boosted the sale of

Who is the "King of Ragtime"?

The "Swing Band" that had already been actively performing at the Cotton Club prior to the outbreak of Swing music

The Nickelodeon

The moment Rock 'n' Roll broke out was....

Early phonograph recordings were all EXCEPT

Ragtime primarily spread in popularity by all EXCEPT which of the following

Who was the famous trumpet player from this group that ended up in movies and all over pop culture?

Boogie Woogie was all of the following EXCEPT

Technology and social issues mirror that of 100+ years ago because

Postwar prosperity was evident by all EXCEPT

Flamboyant hair & makeup, eyerolls, leg up on piano, whooping, non-sense lyrics

The overall mood of the US at the start of the 1930s was

Laughing records and comedy records were not popular until well into the 1930s

Rock 'n' Roll was all of the following EXCEPT

This bizzare tune originally recorded in 1937 was updated in the 1950s by Duke Ellington

What is the biggest difference between Swing music and early New Orleans Dixieland?

White bands tended to focus on __________ while black bands tended to focus more on _________.

This city with it's "rough & tuble" attributes was the birthplace of Boogie Woogie

Fletcher Henderson was perhaps the greatest _____________ of Swing music

The horn of the phonograph did all EXCEPT

Sinatra stood out as a singer in the late 40s/early 50s because

Edison invented all of the following EXCEPT

The Swing Era started all but which of the following:

Prior to 1945, ______________ were not considered musicians

Rock 'n' Roll music did...

The first cross-country tour by this Swing Band was wildly successful everywhere they went

Swing was a gradual phenomenon that took a while to catch on

The "New Deal" legislation passed by FDR did all EXCEPT

Ragtime music steered away from black stereotypes

This coast fell in love first because

Which instrument is NOT a standard Dixieland instrument?

This record was preferred by teens in the 50s/early Rock 'n' Roll

Cover versions of songs

Who was the band leader that took his band north?

Indie lables adapted quickly to change and helped spawn a boom for what styles of music in the early 50s?

This recording medium allowed for overdubbing, stereo sound, recording in layers, and an improvement in the sound

The shellac disc was superior to the wax cylinder because of all EXCEPT:

For the first time in music history, some RnR songs topped which charts?

The reason Edison wanted to invent the phonograph -

FM radio had a distinct advantage over AM for all of the following EXCEPT

All of these changed in the Swing Era EXCEPT

The Swing Band that shattered records for #1 hits, played for USO concerts, bandleader's plane lost in 1944

This record was used in jukeboxes and had a larger hole in the center

Black & White records were equally represented in jukeboxes of the Swing Era

Dixieland music spread north to which major US city?

"Rag-Time" means?

This record was preferred for Classical & Broadway records

The birthplace of Dixieland music and early jazz

Which ethnicities embraced early Dixieland jazz?

Where did Ragtime come from?

Music publishers immediately embraced printing and selling sheet music of Ragtime

R&B artist, songs about break-ups and romance, bluesy/smooth style

Ragtime is the first time we see a major social disruption caused by which age group?

One of the most popular RnR artists and major guitar influence

Elvis was all EXCEPT

Swing describes both _______________ and ________________.

This age group embraced Swing/"hot" jazz in the mid to late 30s

Blues is both a __________ and a ______________

Record sales steadily decreased in the first few decades of the 20th Century

Aside from Swing, what was the other major cultural disruption prior to 1935?

Dixieland music of the north evolved by focusing more on

Which famous bandleader went overseas and to nearly every major town in the US spreading Ragtime

Victor and Columbia built both the ____________ and the ____________.

How did early phonograph recording materials evolve?

The most famous Boogie Woogie band was

This massive expo happens every 5 years in a major city drawing millions of visitors to see new innovations

Rock 'n' Roll ended by all EXCEPT

12-bar blues is more technical and Ragtime is more emotional/laid back

Despite Swing's wild popularity, there was still a segment of our country that did not favor it

Postwar America can be best described as

Splitting the sound from its original source is a phenomenon called

How did music reflect the mood of the early 1930s

The first nationwide commercial record sold in the US in 1904 was from what musical genre?

The 33 1/3 LP disc was the first commercial record sold in the US

Despite his flaws, Alan Freed did all EXCEPT

Which coast of the US fell in love with Swing first?

Swing was a "gateway to racial democracy" because of all EXCEPT

What song did the Glenn Miller band play at the beginning and end of every concert?