Rock and Roll - Week 1

Question 1

A radical culture, esp. amongst the young, that rejects established social values & practices

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Counterculture

Question 2

Blues as a musical form; AAB text form and call & response pattern btw voice and instruments

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12 bar blues

Question 3

In SHMRFT, the words or lyrics of a song

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Text

Question 4

First country blues recording star; East Texas blues style; "That Black Snake Moan"

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Blind Lemon Jefferson

Question 5

Electrified the blues; centered in Chicago; Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker

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Electric (urban) blues

Question 6

Usually men who accompanied themselves on guitar, banjo, harmonica; usually wrote their songs

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Delta (country) blues

Question 7

"Hoochie Coochie Man" by Muddy Waters, know for its stoptime technique is in what form?

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16 bar blues

Question 8

In SHMRFT; includes timbre, instrumentation, texture, dynamics, inflection, what it sounds like

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Soundprint

Question 9

"Cross Road Blues" by Robert Johnson is a good example of what blues style?

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Delta blues

Question 10

In SHMRFT, organization of music, its structure, its basic building blocks & their combination

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Form

Question 11

Music that is created directly and spontaneously out of communal experience

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Folk music

Question 12

In SHMRFT, the simultaneous occurrence of 2 or more musical pitches

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Harmony

Question 13

Music that is authentic, more "artistic"; harder, more aggressive and improvisatory

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Rock music

Question 14

Small independent labels operating in marginal markets

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Indies

Question 15

"Empress of the classic blues;" singer of "St. Louis Blues" sings with vibrato and raspy voice

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Bessie Smith

Question 16

Godfather of the blues, pepped up & electrified the blues;rough, gritty style, double entendres

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Muddy Waters

Question 17

Large record companies with lost of capital and power

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Majors

Question 18

Delta blues artist known for bottleneck guitar technique; rumored he sold his soul to the devil

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Robert Johnson

Question 19

Music that's commercial entertainment, mainstream

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Pop music

Question 20

Music usually written out, consciously intended for posterity; lots of thought into structure

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Art music

Question 21

In SHMRFT, how music moves through time

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Rhythm

Question 22

Artist who arrived in Chicago and competed with Muddy Waters; recorded "Evil"; electric blues

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Howlin' Wolf

Question 23

In SHMRFT, the sequential occurrence of musical pitches, the horizontal aspect of music

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Melody

Question 24

John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" is an electric delta blues song with what?

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"Talking blues" style

Question 25

Group of lesser importance w/specific beliefs, interests, values different than general culture

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Subculture

Question 26

Part of a late 1940s trend toward an electric blues idiom based on older Delta blues styles

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John Lee Hooker

Question 27

Blues mostly by black women (Bessie Smith), performers NOT songwriters; about difficulties

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Classic blues

Rock and Roll - Week 1

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