Popular Music History & Society - Quiz 1

Which is NOT a type of early African slave music in America?

Louis Armstrong contributed most to which genre of music?

Jazz originated closest to which town?

What law in the early 1900's set a price for the use of private property?

All of the following are types of folk songs EXCEPT:

"What most people believe to be true" is called what in Sociology?

In 1897, who dedicated space to save music related materials for future generations?

What is mainly studied in Sociology?

Blues is characterised by...

Who brought distinctive forms of music North during a large migration in the early 1900's?

What drove the consumption of alcohol into secret clubs and speakeasies?

This group helped first expose black spirituals to white Americans in the 1870's.

These sacred poems from the Christian Bible were sung by early pioneers in America.

African music valued notation (written music) so that it could be reproduced between tribes.

Ragtime was most popular on which instrument?

A big significance of the invention of the phonograph was that it helped spread musical styles.

The first blues recordings were made in the...

Which of the following is NOT one of the theoretical perspectives in Sociology?

The Civil War prevented the intermingling of various American musical styles for generations.

Which medium of music had the highest sales in the late 1910s?