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| What are the identifying characteristics of a "true" folk song? |
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| Songs of anonymous authorship, passed down generation to generation |
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Instrumentation (the choice of instruments used) is a deciding factor in determining whether music is "true" folk music. |
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| What is the folk process? |
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| The long-term collective changing of knowledge passed down orally. |
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| What do Hornpipes, Jigs, Reels, and Strathpeys all have in common? |
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| All dance music styles from the Celtic influenced Europe |
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| The Appalachian music tradition gets most of its Celtic music tradition from what countries? |
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| Scotland, Ireland, and England |
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| What were the churches called in slave times where the spirituals developed? |
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| Through what famous singing group did America first learn of the Negro Spirituals? |
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| Fisk University Jubilee Singers |
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| Why did folklorist John and Alan Lomax start touring through America seeking to record folk and blues? |
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| They realized that the folk traditions in remote communities were in danger of being lost to the commercial reach of radio. |
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| What black folk artist collected songs from his travels through the south and was eventually pardoned on two separate prison sentences, one with help from the Lomaxes. |
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| The style of roots music most associated with Bill Monroe is: |
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| What five instruments usually comprise the average Bluegrass band? |
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| Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, bass |
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| What prolific songwriter and performer embodied the folk-spirit of the Okie farmer of the Depression and came to symbolize the radical political folk musicians? |
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| What artist was called "America's tuning fork" by poet Carl Sandburg; stayed on the forefront of music and politics through the 1960's; was blacklisted by the McCarthy era's HUAC committee; and wrote 60s civil rights and folk anthems "We Shall Overcome" a |
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| Why did the Weavers become blacklisted by the HUAC in the mid 1950s? |
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| They were exposed as having strong connections with the Communist Party |
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| Skiffle, a very popular "do it yourself" Bristish music style that was a mix of folk music and ragtime was polpularized in the 1950s by |
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| What is the traditional music on the black, French speaking country people of the bayou regions of the central and southern Louisiana? |
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| What is the traditional music of the white, French speaking country people of the bayou regions of the central and southern Louisiana? |
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| What East Coast folk artist openly opposed the Vietnam War by organizing the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence, and also made the song "We Shall Overcome," co-written by Pete Seeger, the 1960s anti-war anthem? |
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| What is Greenwich Village? |
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| It is a neighborhood in lower New York City known for political radicals and political art. |
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| Who was the legendary A&R Man who "discovered" Bob Dylan? |
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| Why is Bod Dylan considered the most important song writer of the 1960s? |
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| He broadened the scope of what the lyrics could be in popular music with poetry and intelligence. |
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| What songwriter changed popular music with deeply personal, highly intelligent and poetic lyrics; writing, for example All Along the Watch Tower, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, and Blowin' in the Wind? |
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| Bob Dylan traveled from his Midwestern home to New York City to see what dying folk artist, who was also his most important single influence? |
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| \Who continued to sing protest songs into the seventies, though largely unheard, his life ended in suicide? |
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| What was the Medicine Show? |
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| A pre-radio concert performed throughout the south for selling patent medicines |
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| The vast majority of music on the air (radio) before 1948 came from what source? |
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| Live from the studio or performance |
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In the early days of country (1920s thru 1940s), aspiring recording artists first had to make a name for themselves in radio. |
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| Which radio station developed the most popular barn dance radio show, called The Grand Ole Opry in the 1920s? |
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| Country's first multi-million seller, The Prisoner's Song, was recorded on record labels by the same artist. What was his name used on his first recording with Victor? |
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| The Skillet Lickers played a traditional style of Celtic influenced music that was popular in the Southeast and utilized string instruments, often called: |
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| What conerstone country family is credited with setting many standards of the country music style, influencing the next generations of singers with 250 recordings and Opry broadcast? |
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| What country star developed the guitar playing technique of playing the melody on the bass strings while picking chords on the higher strings? |
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| What singer learned the blues as a railroad laborer, later combining it with hillbilly music? |
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| What early producer recording both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rogers for Victor in 1927? |
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| Which artist became the first Western Movie Star by battling the Phantom Empire from his horse and singing songs like that Silver Haired Daddy of Mine in a 1930s science-fiction movie series? He later went on to star in over 80 films and start producing t |
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| The style of country music most often associated with Bob Willis and the Texas Playboys is: |
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| What musical style became the predominant influence on popular music from the mid-1930s through the 1940s? |
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| Western Swing is a hybrid of what two styles of music? |
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| What country artist first made Honky-tonk famous, who in his early days idolized Jimmie Rogers? |
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| Hey Good Lookin', Cold Cold Heart, and Your Cheatin' Heart were all written and performed by this person often credited as the best country songwriter of all time. |
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| Who was the King of Honky-Tonk, who died of an overdose of alcohol and drugs in 1953 at age 29? |
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| Which two men formed the first country music publishing firm in Nashville in 1942? |
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| What style emerged in white Southwestern road houses and juke joints during and after World War II? |
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| Rockablilly can be described as a blend of what two styles of music? |
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| Which independent record label first discovered and developed Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jonnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis? |
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| Which country and gospel group brought blues harmonica and up-tempo boogie-woogie to their music in the late 1940s, in effect the beginning of Rockabilly? |
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| What country artist had the first so-called Rock and Roll million-seller hit, produced by the jazz producer Milt Gabler? |
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| Bill Haley and the Comets |
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| What popular country duo's huge single Cathy's Clown put Warner Brothers on the map? |
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| Who produced Jonny Cash's last four studio albums on the American Recordings label? |
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| Besides Don Law, what two Nashville producers created the Nashville Sound? |
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| Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins |
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| The West Coast style of country artists, whose roster includes Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, is best described as a blend of what two older country styles? |
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| Rockabilly and Honky-Tonk |
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| What are the major producers of country in the USA? |
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| Bakersfield, CA, Nashville, TN, and Austin, TX |
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| Glen Campbell represents what style in mid to late 1960s country? |
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| Who created the first country/rock album, and what was the record' title? |
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| The Byrds, Sweetheart of the Rodeo |
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| What guitarist formed The Flying Burrito Brothers and spread the gospel of electric oriented music in the late 1960s? |
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| Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark formed what legendary innovative popular group: leading the way to Folk Rock in 1965; Psychedelic Rock in 1967, and then Country Rock in 1968? |
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| Stephen Stills, Jim Messins and Neil Young formed what country rock group of the late 1960s? |
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| Gram Parons, Chris Hillman, Chris Etheridge, and Pete Kleinow formed what country rock group in the late 1960s? |
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Both Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn grew up poor in the mountains. |
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Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn buck the prevailing trend by being both women singers and songwriters. |
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| Where did Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson go in the early 1970s when they left Nashville to start a fresh country sound? |
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| What country movement/style is associated with the early 1980s that blends disco-ized country songs and electronic rodeos? |
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| The 1970s and 80s country group Asleep At the Wheel revived what older style of country music? |
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| What is the traditional country style that stayed country during the Urban Cowboy years of the early 1980s? |
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| The 1980s punk band The Cramps revived what older style of country music? |
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| Brian Setzer's Strat Cats revived what older style of country music? |
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| What artist has the best selling Country album of all time, No Fences? |
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| What British producer (of Def Leopard and others) married and produced Shania Twain? |
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Starting with the 1950s Nashville System, most country artist do not write their own songs, but instead record songs chosen by their producers. |
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| Which represents the correct chronological order of country music styles? |
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| Hillbilly, Western Stars, Western Swing, Rockabilly, Nashville Sound, Bakersfield, Country Rock, Outlaw Country, Urban Cowboy, New Traditionalist, Young Country |
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