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1.) A wooden structure on logging and turpentine camps in forest areas of the rural South where laborers gathered to drink and gamble is called

Answer: Barrelhouse

2.) Describe the origin of the "Jim Crow" minstrel character

Answer: Thomas Rice saw a Black man with a limp in tattered clothes singing "Jump Jim Crow" while he worked.

3.) Most early blues singers were from.

Answer: The Deep South

4.) Blues

Answer: Focus on the self, emotions, and actions based on emotions

5.) Which of the following is the most common structural form of blues?

Answer: The twelve-bar AAB form and its variations

6.) Which of the following homemade instruments were used in blues "jug bands"?

Answer: All of the Above

7.) Why was the electric guitar an important development in blues?

Answer: It had a louder volume and different timbres from acoustic guitars

8.) Boogie-woogie is a _____.

Answer: Piano style popularized in the 1930s and 1940s that features riffs against a syncopated improvised melody.

9.) When did the Blues genre originate?

Answer: 1890s

10.) Which of the following was not a common secondary instruments often used in Blues?

Answer: Synthesizer

11.) From what subgenre did the basic melodic resources of the blues derive from?

Answer: Field Holler

12.) What is an example of European elements within the blues genre?

Answer: Strophic form and basic I-IV-V harmonies

13.) Melodic resources of the blues are largely derived from

Answer: Field Hollers

14.) A piano style popularized in the 1930s and 1940s that features repeated bass riffs against a syncopated improvise melody is known as...

Answer: Boogie Woogie

15.) What instrument did Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins, Muddy Waters, and Pee Wee Crayton play?

Answer: Electric Guitar

16.) What are Jim Crow laws?

Answer: Laws limiting African American freedoms and rights in the U.S.

17.) Describe a twelve-bar blues

Answer: A song with three lines (AAB) with four measure each

18.) What is a riff?

Answer: A short, recurrent melodic-rhythmic phrase.

19.) What was one of the first five songs copyrighted with the word "blues" in the title?

Answer: The Memphis Blues by WC Handy

20.) How do instruments play a role in the blues accompanying style?

Answer: A voice that punctuates and responds to the vocal lines

21.) What is a West African music specialist of a social caste who serves as a custodian of cultural history called?

Answer: Griot

22.) A short, recurrent melodic-rhythmic phrase is also known as

Answer: Riff

23.) These two people put minstrelsy on the radio (pick 2)

Answer: Amos and Andy

24.) Piano style popularized in the 1930s and 1940s that features repeated bass figures(riffs) against a syncopated improvised melody is known as?

Answer: Boogie Woogie

25.) Gospel-influenced African American popular music style that began to emerge in the late 1950s and became popular during the 1960s is called?

Answer: Soul

26.) Where did the basic melodic resources of the blues derive from?

Answer: Field Hollers

27.) What up-tempo blues style of the 1940s -1950s is characterized by boogie-woogie bass lines, shuffle rhythms, and prominent brass and reed sounds?

Answer: Jump Blues

28.) What effectively killed the institution of vaudeville and the blues style associated with it?

Answer: Great Depression

29.) What were laws limiting African American freedoms and rights in US society?

Answer: Jim Crow Laws

30.) What form is most popular in blues?

Answer: 12-Bar AAB form

31.) What is the blues scale?

Answer: The incorporation of the flat third, flat fifth, and flat seventh degrees in a scale

32.) What is the significance of a B line in a stanza that utilizes a twelve bar form?

Answer: Used to explain, amplifies, comments, or contrasts with line A

33.) When did soul blues emerge and name three white blues artist that gained popularity upon its expansion?

Answer: 1960, Bonnie Raitt, Johny Winter, and Stevie Ray Vaughan

34.) What is a bend?

Answer: An instrumental technique that slightly raises or lowers pitch

35.) What was so significant about the Marigny theater?

Answer: It opened for the "free colored population" so they could enjoy French light comedies and musical shows but spared from the indignity of sitting in segregated theaters.

36.) What was blackface make up used for?

Answer: Used to stereotype African American life and customs during minstrel shows

37.) Name three Vaudeville composers

Answer: Will Marion Cook, W. C Handy and Chris Smith

38.) What styles of dance became popular during the 1920's shuffle along?

Answer: Tap dance, acrobatic styles and slow drags

39.) What is TOBA a reference for in relationship to African American show people

Answer: Tough On Black Actors

40.) What was the effect on theater from the depression?

Answer: Massive choruses became unaffordable and people became disappointed in the excessive amount of routine work

41.) Which one of these was NOT a part of the minstrel show production?

Answer: A Fixed Script

42.) What is the name of the makeup actors use in minstrel shows to create the look of a black person?

Answer: Blackface

43.) What is a minstrel show?

Answer: Full-length theatrical entertainment featuring performers in blackface who performed songs, dances, and comic skits based on parodies and stereotypes of African-American life

44.) Who was one of the most prominent of the Black stars that always used blackface and insisted that he would be ineffective without it?

Answer: Bert Williams

45.) What movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s emphasized Black unity, Black pride, and selfdetermination?

Answer: Black Power Movement

46.) Many early _______ artists got their start in Minstrel shows?

Answer: Blues

47.) What is a series of brief skits mixed with songs and dances?

Answer: Revue

48.) What song did James Bland write?

Answer: Carry me Back to Old Virginny

49.) What was Scott Joplin's claim to fame?

Answer: Greatest turn-of-the-century composer of classical piano music

50.) What was the first opera composed by an African American composer?

Answer: Virginia's Ball

51.) On the Atlantic coast in the 1750s, societal attitudes toward secular theatre were:

Answer: Demeaning and Disapproving

52.) African American Operas:

Answer: Illustrate the extent of Black participation in the fine arts despite exclusion from mainstream musical institutions

53.) Bert Williams:

Answer: Represented the "sad clown" archetype

54.) The Great Depression affected musical theater style because

Answer: Large choruses and chorus lines were no longer affordable

55.) What was the cultural significance of the Black Power movement for musical theatre?

Answer: An interest developed in reviving the rich African-American theatrical tradition from before the Great Depression

56.) In what decade did secular non-minstrel theatricals come into the mainstream?

Answer: 1900s

57.) What is a theatrical form consisting of a variety of unrelated performing acts, including actors, singers, dancers, acrobats, comedians, and other specialty acts?

Answer: Vaudeville

58.) What show ran over 500 performances, toured for two years, and had varied musical material?

Answer: Shuffle Along

59.) What are the most prominent subjects of songs in the Blues genre? (Circle all correct answers)

Answer: Love and Sex

60.) What city became the primary center of Blues recording activity?

Answer: Chicago

61.) Which instrument became an important for distinguishing new blues sounds in the late 1940s?

Answer: Electric Guitar

62.) Which scale degree was not commonly incorporated in Blues Scales?

Answer: Flat Sixth

63.) What separates blues from other African Americans genres we have studied so far?

Answer: The prominence of Solo Artists

64.) Who was the first vaudeville singer to record blues commercially?

Answer: Mamie Smith

65.) Which white artist or group is not tied to the blues genre?

Answer: ZZ Top

66.) What was a derogatory term for a black person seen as supporting rather than challenging the racist power structure?

Answer: Uncle Tom

67.) Which Project gave some works for blacks in as well as straight plays in several American cities?

Answer: Federal Theatre Project

68.) In the late 19th century before television or radio, _________ provided everyday people with entertainment.

Answer: Minstrel Shows

69.) What song popularized in 1880 by Billy Kersands became a phenomenon that soon came to dominate the repertoire of black and white minstrel musical shows?

Answer: Marys Gone Wid a Coon

70.) What stereotypical characters did entertainment frequently utilize during Minstrel shows?

Answer: Mammie and Dandy

71.) In what Northern cities did Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrel perform?

Answer: Chicago and Detroit

72.) Who popularized blackface makeup?

Answer: Thomas Rice

73.) What song and show gave Thomas Rice and his imitators their big break?

Answer: Jim Crow

74.) Which three US cities welcomed foreign immigrants' culture (music, dance, and theatrical fashions) during the 1700s?

Answer: NYC, New Orleans, Charleston

75.) What time period did Black Revues and Musical Comedies take place?

Answer: 1890-1930

76.) Which of the following was not a part of the standard minstrel show tripartite format?

Answer: A section filled with scenes the actors improvised

77.) Which prolific Black composer-singer wrote "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"?

Answer: James Bland

78.) Which of these is considered the first opera by an African-American composer?

Answer: Virginia's Ball

79.) What was not a reason that the musical Shuffle Along had success?

Answer: The economy crashed and allowed lower-class people to spend more money on entertainment

80.) Where did McAdoo's minstrels stay and toured throughout for 18 months?

Answer: South Africa

81.) When McAdoo formed his own company, what college did he recruit from?

Answer: Hampton Universtity

82.) What was arguably the leading black-oriented newspaper in the Midwest in the late 19th century?

Answer: Indianapolis Freeman

83.) The ghost walks, signifies

Answer: Pay days were regularly met

84.) Who originated ' A Game Day of Craps'

Answer: Tom Brown

85.) What is the correct order of minstrel showing activities?

Answer: 1) Overture, songs, song parodies; 2) Miscellaneous variety acts; 3) A Southern Plantation Skit; 4) Walk-Around

86.) When did African Americans begin to form their own minstrel troupes?

Answer: Between 1865 and 1890

87.) A play with a theme loosely derived from biblical stories, featuring music that either imitated or was directly drawn from African American gospel traditions is known as?

Answer: Gospel Musical

88.) What is Louisa Melvin Delos Mars' importance in African American History?

Answer: She was the first African American woman to have an opera produced

89.) Who was the most popular African American minstrel troupe?

Answer: Richard and Pringles' Georgia Minstrels

90.) When and where was Billy Kersands born?

Answer: 1842 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

91.) What year did the Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands part ways?

Answer: 1903

92.) Billy Kersands' wife Louise

Answer: Became his stage partner

93.) Billy Kersands

Answer: Was hailed as a "minstrel king"

94.) What African American minstrel gained the largest following?

Answer: Richard and Pringle's

95.) What aspect of minstrelsy led to late night talk shows?

Answer: A mixed-bag of acts and topics during a minstrel show

96.) What type of television show's roots derived from minstrelsy?

Answer: Talk Shows

97.) What minstrel troupe had the largest and most loyal black southern following during the 1890s?

Answer: Georgia Minstrels

98.) Which Billy Kersands song was a vernacular dance that required a nimble "combination of knee work and head buttoning to keep time with the music?"

Answer: Essence of Virginny

99.) Who is the "best known and best beloved minstrel America has known, regardless of color?"

Answer: Billy Kersands

100.) Which Billy Kersands song was commercially recorded by the white male quartet known as the Singing Sentinels?

Answer: Old Aunt Jemima

101.) In what year did Billy Kersands start performing with Richard and Pringle's Georgia Minstrels?

Answer: 1889

102.) Where did the Georgia Minstrels commonly tour?

Answer: The South

103.) How did minstrel shows align with the views of the time?

Answer: All of the above

104.) When were African American minstrels most popular?

Answer: 1850-1900

105.) What famous syrup has derivations from African American minstrels?

Answer: Aunt Jemima

106.) What was Orpheus McAdoo's job before he became a member of The Virginia Jubilee Singers?

Answer: Teacher

107.) What school did Orpheus McAdoo get his musical roots from?

Answer: Fisk University

108.) Orpheus Myron McAdoo is known as being

Answer: the Virginia Jubilee Singer from Hampton

109.) The Virginia Concert Company event opened with

Answer: The Choir singing the Lords Prayer

110.) What was the funniest item for the evening by the Virginia Concert company?

Answer: The Hindus Paradisee

111.) What brought the Virginia Concert company concert to a close?

Answer: Good night gentle folks

112.) Where are the Virginia Jubilee Singers from?

Answer: Hampton, VA

113.) Why was Orpheus McAdoo important?

Answer: He was the founder of the Virginia Jubilee Singers

114.) What was the predominant African American minstrel group of the 1890's?

Answer: Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels

115.) What was Billy Kersands' most famous song?

Answer: Essence of Virginny

116.) In what decade did minstrel groups begin performing?

Answer: 1830s

117.) Richards and Pringle's Georgia Minstrels drew the "largest crowd ever known in "

Answer: Memphis

118.) What does "The ghost makes his usual weekly visits" mean?

Answer: Pay days are regularly met

119.) Who was one of the first people to introduce the rest of the world to African American music?

Answer: Orpheus McAdoo

120.) What group did Orpheus McAdoo tour with?

Answer: Fisk Jubilee Singers

121.) What company did McAdoo create after touring with the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

Answer: McAdoo's Virginia Concert Company and Jubilee Singers

122.) McAdoo's minstrel shows consisted of:

Answer: mixed male and female

123.) What genre of music is the banjo usually associated with?

Answer: Bluegrass Country

124.) When was the banjo developed?

Answer: Late 19th Century

125.) What remains a symbol of the mountain musician?

Answer: the banjo

126.) What was a distinctive trait of Dink's banjo songs?

Answer: His repertory is largely of pre-blue origin

127.) Where is the musical lineage of the banjo originally from?

Answer: West Africa

128.) What kind of dancing is usually associated with banjo music?

Answer: Buck dancing

129.) When did whites begin imitating slave dance and song?

Answer: 1840s

130.) The Wolof was an African ethnic group found largely in all of the following except

Answer: Cape Town

131.) The banjo stood as the crossroads between African American:

Answer: Identity, cultural community, and cooperative community

132.) The programming for the Virginia Jubliee Singers was comprised of

Answer: Secular and spiritual music

133.) The banjo stayed in the hands of African Americans until***

Answer: 1830s

134.) What was one of the first accompanying instruments to the banjo?

Answer: Drums and Body Percussion

135.) What was the earliest version of the banjo?

Answer: Gourd

136.) When was bluegrass banjo music created by?

Answer: 1940s

137.) Which one of these was not drawn upon in black repertory in banjo songs?

Answer: Fiddle Repertory

138.) The folk banjo tradition of the 20th century is continued today by

Answer: Southern mountain whites/ragtimes

139.) The traditionally white style of banjo music

Answer: Was influenced from the beginning by African and African-American playing styles and song forms

140.) Which instrument frequently accompanied the banjo in dance music ensembles until it was outlawed by authorities in the late 18th century?

Answer: The Drum

141.) What white invention started out as an imitation of slave dancing and banjo playing traditions?

Answer: Minstrel Shows

142.) How did the banjo change during its transition between cultures?

Answer: Wooden-rim banjos were used instead of gourd banjos

143.) What has the banjo long signified?

Answer: Appalachian Mountain musician

144.) North Carolina musicians Dink Roberts, John Snipes, and Odell Thompson are described as...

Answer: "praise singers"

145.) What genre did majority musicians in minstrelsy fall under?

Answer: folk

146.) Describe a gourd banjo.

Answer: Had three strings

147.) Which of the following is not a musical feature of the Celtic-American tradition?

Answer: Ring shouting during wrestling matches

148.) Which ...