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Popular Music in America
My final for popular music in america
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Music
Undergraduate 2
12/10/2015

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what was the first modern musical?
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Show boat
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what musical was the song "Old Man River" from?
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Showboat
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What character sings "Oh What a beautiful morning", and what Musical is it from?
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Curly, from the musical Oklahoma
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What are the two groups that fight in the musical West Side Story?
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Jets VS. Sharks
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define Folk Music
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oral heritage passed down by storytelling
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what does folk music mostly consist of?
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voice and guitar
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what two things make up country music?
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voice and guitar, so basically folk music
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what is the main city for country?
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Nashville
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who was known for the thumb-brush style of playing guitar?
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Maybelle Carter
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define yodeling:
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exploiting the break in the voice
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who was well known for yodeling?
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Jimmy Rogers
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early country was known as what type of a style?
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all inclusive
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what style of voice was used in country singing?
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a twang
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list the 3 different Latin dances:
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Tango, Bossonoca, ChaCha
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list the Latin instruments that were made popular
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Claves, Timbales
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who made Timbales popular?
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Tito Puente
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who made the mambo popular?
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Tito Puente
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what 2 countries were the main influence of out Latin music?
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Cuba and Brazil
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what is Stan Getz popular for, and what instrument did her play?
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Brought music from Brazil, and he plays the saxophone
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what was the main type of band when Rock and Roll became popular?
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Jump bands
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Who started a popular Jumb band?
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Louis Jordan
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what rhythm was Louis Jordan famous for incorporating in his music?
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Boogie Woogie rhythm
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who was popular for playing in a blues rhythm?
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Chuck Berry
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who incorporated the Boogie Woogie rhythm to a guitar?
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Check Berry
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when was the death of rock and roll?
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1969
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What American style were the Beatles influenced by?
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Rock and roll
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what band is considered the template for rock and roll?
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The Rolling Stones
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list the group members for the Beatles
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Paul McCartney, Elton John, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
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what happened in 1964
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The Beatles gave their first performance in the U.S.
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What was George Harrison known for?
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playing the Indian Sitar which gave the international sound
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what group was known for Motown albums?
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Funk Brothers
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what type of music allowed producer control?
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Rock and Motown
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give 2 examples of hard rock bands
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Led Zepplin, and The Who
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what is distortion?
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white noise
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when were solid body instruments made?
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The 60s
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when was multi track recording first done?
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in the 60s
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where did soft rock come from?
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Tin Pan Alley
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what is U2 known for?
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Political messages
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when does country reestablish itself? and what does it do to come back?
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cross over of slight twang and story telling
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