Jazz Test 1

Question 1

In which order did Ragtime travel?

Answer 1

Sedalia to St. Louis to New Orleans

Question 2

Where was Blues developed?

Answer 2

Delta

Question 3

When was the Minstrel show popular?

Answer 3

1845-1900

Question 4

Who was Louis Armstrong’s mentor?

Answer 4

Joe Oliver

Question 5

Where were the first funeral parades?

Answer 5

New Orleans

Question 6

Where did people migrate from Storyville?

Answer 6

Los Angeles

Question 7

What is the mixing of entities?

Answer 7

Cross-fertilization

Question 8

King of Swing?

Answer 8

Bennie Goodman

Question 9

Empress of the Blues

Answer 9

Bessie Smith

Question 10

First usage of the word jazz?

Answer 10

1913 - 1915.

Question 11

What instrument did Herskovitz play?

Answer 11

None

Question 12

First black ballroom?

Answer 12

Savoy

Question 13

Father of ragtime?

Answer 13

Scott Joplin

Question 14

What is ragtime NOT?

Answer 14

Music exclusively for the piano

Question 15

What is a sea shanty?

Answer 15

Talking about the Atlantic ocean

Question 16

TOBA

Answer 16

Theater owners booking association

Question 17

What was NOT a part of New Orleans?

Answer 17

House Rent Parties

Question 18

What was Code Noir?

Answer 18

Interracial Sex is prohibited

Question 19

What did Marcus Garvey start?

Answer 19

UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)

Question 20

What is not a major location of ragtime/jazz?

Answer 20

Dallas

Question 21

Order of prominence of jazz, ragtime and blues

Answer 21

Blues, ragtime, and jazz.

Question 22

Which was not a spelling of jazz?

Answer 22

Yazz.

Question 23

Which was not a performance center in Chicago?

Answer 23

Recording studio

Question 24

Dean of the Big Bands

Answer 24

Fletcher Henderson

Question 25

Swing Formula

Answer 25

everyone has a part that is unique and sounds good when it comes together.

Question 26

Race records

Answer 26

attempt to expand the market for records to black people.

Question 27

Why did the Harlem Renaissance end?

Answer 27

The stock market crashed.

Question 28

Were there female big bands?

Answer 28

YES

Question 29

Queen of the Blues

Answer 29

Dinah Washington

Question 30

First record recorded?

Answer 30

Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)

Question 31

Who did the Swing Formula?

Answer 31

Don Redmond

Question 32

3 parts of the Minstrel Show

Answer 32

Show Proper, Olio, Parody

Question 33

Capital of Black America

Answer 33

Harlem

Question 34

Ragtime Formula

Answer 34

AABBACCDD

Question 35

Which is not a characteristic of the classic blues period?

Answer 35

Western classical music

Question 36

Who was Jim Crow originally?

Answer 36

A minstrel show character

Question 37

Who was not an important musician in the '20s?

Answer 37

Neither Louis Armstrong nor Sidney Bechet nor Coleman Hawkins ( Herbie Hancock)

Question 38

Jazz is primarily a form of ______ and ______

Answer 38

communication and expression.

Question 39

Where was Storyville?

Answer 39

In New Orleans.

Question 40

Is there a difference between Dixieland jazz and early jazz?

Answer 40

Yes, Race.

Question 41

Who integrated Jazz?

Answer 41

Bennie Goodman

Question 42

Geographical regions of the blues

Answer 42

Delta, Southeastern seaboard, territories, urban,

Question 43

Most important big band of the Jazz Age

Answer 43

Fletcher Henderson Orchestra

Question 44

Code Noir

Answer 44

outlawed interracial sex, misaggivation

Question 45

Whose music was regarded as jungle music?

Answer 45

Duke Ellington

Question 46

Jazz is not simply a form of music.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

What term do we mean when we say spontaneous composition?

Answer 47

Improvization

Question 48

What is not a characteristic of Jazz?

Answer 48

Sheet Music.