first test

Question 1

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK By Bill Haley and the Comets (1954)

Answer 1

First RNR song to go #1 on Billboard pop charts (1955)

Question 2

THE BLUES

Answer 2

Singers bent (“out of tune”) notes mimicked by all other
instruments in all pop styles of 20th century

Question 3

The 12-bar blues

Answer 3

AAB form (one line sung twice, followed by a kicker)

Question 4

Blues Roots

Answer 4

Derived from African work songs, spirit singing, and dance
accompaniments that were a part of everyday life Solidified as a genre around 1900, first recordings not made
until 1920

Question 5

Ragtime and Jazz

Answer 5

Ragtime - mix of Euro harmonies and African syncopated
rhythms
Began at the turn of the 20th century
Scott Joplin - “The Entertainer”

Question 6

Ragtime and Jazz

Answer 6

First popular blend of black/white music, first popular blackderived style
Jazz - a looser, more improvisatory, bluesier offshoot of
ragtime began in 1910’s and fueled the roaring 20s
WC Handy “St Louis Blues” (1914) - ragtime’s take on the
blues, which helped popularize the blues itself

Question 7

CLASSIC BLUES

Answer 7

Mamie Smith - “Crazy Blues” (1920)

Question 8

Bessie Smith

Answer 8

Empress of the Blues St Louis Blues” (1923) duet with Louis Armstrong Career suffered during the Great Depression Influenced Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, etc

Question 9

RURAL BLUES

Answer 9

Raw sound from cotton plantations of the South WC Handy encountered a rural blues musician in Mississippi
in 1903 and eventually wrote “St Louis Blues”
Blind Lemon Jefferson - first significant rural blues
recordings in 1927 incl. “Match Box Blues

Question 10

Mississippi Delta Blues

Answer 10

“The deepest blues of all Robert Johnson “Dust My Broom” and other songs laid
blueprint for full-band/electric Chicago blues Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues
“Father of Rock and Roll”
Sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar skills
Murdered in 1938 by a jealous husband

Question 11

URBAN BLUES

Answer 11

moved Southern blacks into big
Northern cities Famous early electric guitarists: Charlie Christian/Eddie
Durham (jazz), T Bone Walker/Lonnie Johnson (blues)

Question 12

Memphis Blues

Answer 12

Sam Phillips - recording studio, made first recordings of BB
King/Howlin’ Wolf/Junior Park Phillips also started Sun Records in 1952, released first Elvis
recordings

Question 13

B.B. King

Answer 13

Disciple of T Bone Walker Maintained raw Delta style, just electrified it

Question 14

Chicago and Chess Records

Answer 14

Early hits “I Just Wanna Make Love to You”, “I’m Your
Hoochie Coochie Man”
Electrified the Delta Blues

Question 15

COUNTRY AND WESTERN

Answer 15

Elvis’ first single (Sun Records) was a blues song “That’s All
Right” and a bluegrass song “Blue Moon of Kentucky”

Question 16

Jimmie Rodgers

Answer 16

Father of Country Music Yodel” - “Blue Yodel (T For Texas)

Question 17

Western Swing

Answer 17

Bob Wills “King of Western Swing” and the Texas Playboys

eventually included horn section like big band swing

Question 18

The Grand Ole Opry

Answer 18

Nashville’s Ryman

Auditorium that started in 1925

Question 19

Roy Acuff

Answer 19

First Grand Ole Opry singing star

Question 20

Hank Williams

Answer 20

Fused Acuff (tradition) and Tubb (restless honky tonk)
into something new/relevant/timeless Died of heart failure in ‘53