A Race Enslaved

Question 0

What most captivated European audiences around the 1900?

Answer 0

Cakewalk

Question 1

The first person to perform in blackface was:

Answer 1

George Washington Dixon

Question 2

True or False: Some slaves were great fiddlers and their masters encouraged them

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What did the arranged spiritual remove from the original folk spirituals?

Answer 3

Handclapping, foot stomping, and individuality

Question 4

Minstrel shows were important in American music because

Answer 4

They were the United States’ first unified national culture.
Many black musicians began their musical careers in minstrel shows

Question 5

The “educated elite” blacks began to take issue with spiritual in the 19th century because:

Answer 5

Disturbed quiet and dignified worship

Question 6

Work songs were intended to:

Answer 6

Lift sprits, ward off fatigue, and coordinate movements

Question 7

According to Frederick Douglass, “slaves sing most when they are:”

Answer 7

Unhappy

Question 8

Before sound recordings, African and African-American music was notated by scholars, but the scholars had to:

Answer 8

Omit or modify distinctive characteristics because they were unable to be expressed in the notational system.

Question 9

What is the phrase that describes a performance practice in which one musical statement is answered by another?

Answer 9

Call

Question 10

Ragtime was most popular when?

Answer 10

Late 1800s to early 1900s

Question 11

The cakewalk was a dance that:

Answer 11

Blacks invented to make fun of whites’ bouncy, stiff dancing style

Question 12

What does black religious music often feature that it white counterparts do not?

Answer 12

Dancing and Handclapping

Secular melodies

Question 13

The definition of a spiritual is:

Answer 13

A religious folk song that flourished during slavery

Question 14

What is the phrase that describes a type of spiritual that incorporates dancing in a circle?

Answer 14

Ring Shout

Question 15

What instruments could be used by slaves as signaling devices?q

Answer 15

Drums

Question 16

Jim Crow was a character invented by:

Answer 16

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Question 17

What phrase described what was “an extension of simple hand clapping, raising it to the level of a self-contained accompaniment to dancing?”

Answer 17

Patting juba

Question 18

While children’s game songs featured many African elements, this activity sometimes found in game songs was completely foreign to African practice:

Answer 18

Pairing up

Question 19

African Americans initially didn’t consider publishing their rages because:

Answer 19

It was difficult for them to receive payment and acknowledgement

Question 20

In the north, slaves adopted “lining out,” which was a type of sacred music in which:

Answer 20

A preacher sings a line and the congregation repeats the words but draws out the notes.

Question 21

African Americans were the originators of ragtime, but:

Answer 21

They didn’t reap the commensurate benefits from their accomplishments.

Question 22

The founder of the African Methodist Episcopal church, Richard Allen, compiled his own hymnal because:

Answer 22

He wanted the songs to have greater appeal for his black congregation

Question 23

Who was the first person to arrange the spiritual for a solo vocalist?

Answer 23

Harry T. Burleigh

Question 24

“To rag” means:

Answer 24

To syncopate

Question 25

Musical elements to the spiritual

Answer 25

Syncopation

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