Module 7

Question 1

Benny Goodman

Answer 1

Swing Era band leader who hired based on ability alone, helping break down the colour barriers in bandstands at the time.

Question 2

Fletcher Henderson

Answer 2

Swing Era band leader whose compositions featured saxophones and brass exchanging riffs, thereby helping define the form of swing music.

Question 3

Count Basie

Answer 3

Swing Era band leader whose music relied heavily on improvisation and spontaneous interactions between musicians.

Question 4

Duke Ellington

Answer 4

Swing Era band leader whose creativity moved swing music in the direction of an art form.Imaginative sound worlds.

Question 5

3 Challenges That Faced the Music Business (Other than WWII)

Answer 5

1. Royalty Fight
2. The Emergence of BMI
3. The Recording Ban

Question 6

Mother Maybelle Carter

Answer 6

Leader of the Carter Family band. Hillbilly Music.

Question 7

Roy Acuff

Answer 7

Early country gospel musician who played the Dobro

Question 8

Bob Willis

Answer 8

Pioneer of the Western Swing.