American Popular Music Chapters 6-10

Benny Goodman and hist Orchestra

Which big band got its first big break in 1934 on the radio program "Lets Dance"? Sponsored by National Biscuit Company

W.C. Handy

Which of the following was NOT associated with western swing?

Bob Wills

Which fiddler from East Texas led the Texas Playboys in hits like "New San Antonio Rose"?

Count Basie Orchestra

Walter Page, Jo Jones, Freddie Green formed what Kansas City big band?

Xavier Cugat

Which Spanish born violinist, film star, and bandleader was known as the Rhumba King and helped popularize Latin music during the swing era?

Frank Sinatra

Which artist was the focus of the first documented example of modern pop hysteria, the so-called Columbus Day Riot of 1944?

Hank Thompson

Which honky-tonk artist recorded "The Wild Side of Life"?

45 RPM Record

Which record format released in 1949 by RCA Victor Corporation allowed a listener to pre-load a stack of singles?

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Which songwriting team composed the musical Oklahoma!, which opened in 1943?

Damaso Perez Prado

Which pianist, organist, and bandleader popularized the mambo throughout Latin America and in the United States with hits such as "Mambo No. 5"?

Muddy Waters

Which of the following artists recorded Chicago electric blues?

Nat "King" Cole

Which artist was the first black musician to host his own weekly radio series (from 1948-1949) and the first to have a network television show (from 1956-1957)?

Pete Seeger

Who lead the urban folk group the Weavers?

Better sound quality than AM

Which is true about FM radio?

Nature Boy

Which song, written by Eden Ahbez and recorded by Nat "King" Cole, is similar to a Yiddish folk song called "Shvayg mayn harts"?

Maybellene

Which song by Chuck Berry is distantly modeled on the country song "Ida Red" and describes a lovers' quarrel in the form of a car chase?

Fats Domino

Which rock 'n' roll pianist was the second best-selling artist of the 1950s, and is known for a style rooted in musical traditions from New Orleans?

Little Richard

Which rock 'n' roll performer, originally named Richard Wayne Penniman, hit the pop charts in 1956 with his wild performance of the nonsensical song "Tutti-Frutti?"

Elvis Presley

Which artist had a major hit with the song "Don't Be Cruel" in 1956?

Big Joe Turner

Which artist recorded the original version of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll"?

The Crew Cuts

Which vocal ensemble recorded a cover version of "Sh-Boom" that featured two false endings and a humorous kettledrum stroke?

Alan Freed

Which disc jockey is thought to have been the first to use the term "rock 'n' roll" as a genre name?

Wanda Jackson

Which female rock 'n' roll pioneer recorded fierce songs like "Fujiyama Mama" and embraced the implicit interracial character of rock 'n' roll to the explicit extent of touring with an integrated band?

Buddy Holly

Which clean-cut, lanky, bespectacled man began his career in country music and later formed a rock 'n' roll band called the Crickets?

James Brown

Which artist recorded the politically charged "Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud," which was a striking anticipation of important black music to come, both in its musical style and in its emphasis on the black experience as subject matter?

Songs reflected imagery, metaphor, and irony

Which of the following is true about Bob Dylan?

The Nashville Sound

Which popular music "sound" involved a sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music in the 1960s and was exemplified by artists like Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley?

Simon and Garfunkle

What urban folk duo record "The Sound of Silence"?

Ray Charles

Which artist recorded the milestone concept album Modern Sounds in country music in 1962?

Janis Joplin

Which white blues vocalist was the lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company and recorded songs like "Piece of My Heart"?

Like A Rolling Stone

Which recording by Bob Dylan was a fierce song about a young woman's fall from a state of obvious privilege into one of desperation that effectively put an end to previous restrictions on length, subject matter, and poetic diction in the creation of pop records?

Burt Bacharach

Which songwriter partnered with Hal David in the 1960s and penned a series of hits for Dionne Warwick that showed the resilience of the Tin Pan Alley aesthetic?

Ray Charles

Which composer, arranger, songwriter, and pianist brought their unique vocal timbre to recordings in a variety of musical genres including Tin Pan Alley music ("Georgia on My Mind"), R&B ("What'd I Say"), and country ("I Can't Stop Loving You")?

Jimi Hendrix

Which instrumentalist and vocalist from Seattle, Washington, was among the most original, inventive, and influential guitarists of the rock era as well as the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s?