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Music History Quiz 1
Folk and Country
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Undergraduate 2
10/05/2008

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What are the identifying characteristics of a "true" folk song?
Definition
Becomes changed over time. Tells story, usually about loved one.
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T or F

Instrumentation is a deciding factor in determining whether music is "true" folk music.
Definition
False.
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What is folk process?
Definition
Collective changing of a song, a sort of communal re-creation.
Term
What do hornpipes, jigs, reels, and strathpeys all have in common?
Definition
They are old english dances.
Term
Appalachian music tradition gets most of it's Celtic tradition from what countries?
Definition
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales (British Isles)
Term
What best describes all ballad songs?
Definition
Tell story, often lengthy narrative about particular figure or event.
Term
What were the churches called in slave times where the spirituals began?
Definition
Praise houses.
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Through what famous singing group did America first learn of spirituals?
Definition
The Fisk Jubilee Singers.
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Why did folklorists John and Alan Lomax first tour through America seeking to record folk and blues?
Definition
Compile songs for Library of Congress and keep tradition.
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What folk artist collected songs from his travels through the south and was eventually pardoned on 2 separate prison sentences, one with help from the Lomaxes?
Definition
Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.
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The style of roots music most associated with Bill Monroe is:
Definition
Bluegrass.
Term
What 5 instruments usually comprise the average Bluegrass band?
Definition
Fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and bass fiddle
Term
What prolific songwriter and performer embodied the folk-spirit of the Okie farmer of the Depression, AND came to symbolize the radical political folk musician?
Definition
Woody Guthrie
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What artist was called "America's tuning fork;" stayed on the forefront of music and politics through the 60s; blacklisted by the McCarthy era's HUAC committee; wrote civil rights anthems "We Shall Overcome," "If I had a Hammer," and "Turn, Turn, Turn?"
Definition
Pete Seeger
Term
Why did the Weavers become blacklisted by HUAC in the mid 1950s?
Definition
They performed at picket lines and union meetings until they were hired by the Village Vanguard in New York.
Term
Skiffle, a very popular "do-it-yourself" British music style that was a mix of folk music and ragtime was popularized in the 1950s by:
Definition
Lonnie Donegan
Term
What is the traditional music of the black, French speaking country people of the bayou regions of central and southern Louisiana?
Definition
Zydeco
Term
What is the traditional music of the white, French speaking country people of the bayou regions of central and southern Louisiana?
Definition
Cajun
Term
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?
Definition
Joan Baez
Term
What is Greenwich Village?
Definition
An unofficial residential borough of lower Manhattan. It became a haven for radical politics and political art in the late 1950s and 60s.
Term
Who was the legendary A&R man who "discovered" Bob Dylan?
Definition
John Hammond
Term
Why is Bob Dylan considered the most influential American pop musician of the 1960s?
Definition
He was one of the first "pop" artists to personalize his songs, inspiring countless future songwriters.
Term
What songwriter changed popular music with deeply personal, highly intelligent and poetic lyrics?
Definition
Bob Dylan
Term
Bob Dylan traveled from his Minnesota home to New York City, allowing him to see what dying folk musician, who was also his most important influence?
Definition
Woody Guthrie
Term
Who continued to sing protest songs into the seventies, though largely unheard, his life ending in suicide?
Definition
Phil Ochs
Term
What was a Medicine Show?
Definition
A traveling business selling "patent medicines" like hair tonics, health elixirs, and other snake-oils; closest any rural musician could get full-time employment
Term
The majority of music on the air during the early days of radio came from what source?
Definition
Medicine shows
Term
T or F. In the early days (1920s thru 40s), aspiring recording artists first had to make a name for themselves in live radio.
Definition
True
Term
Which radio station developed the most popular "barn dance" radio show, called The Grand Ole Opry in the 1920s?
Definition
WSM radio
Term
Hillbilly music's first multi-million seller, "The Prisoner Song," was on several record labels by the same artist. What was the name used on his first recording with Victor?
Definition
Vernon Dalhart
Term
The Skillet Lickers played a traditional style of Celtic influenced music that was popular in the Southeast and utilized string instruments, often called:
Definition
"Old-timey" ... growing out of Irish and English folk dances and ballads
Term
What cornerstone country family is credited with setting many standards of country music style, influencing the next generations of singers with 250 recordings and Opry broadcasts?
Definition
The Carter Family
Term
What country star developed the guitar playing technique of playing the melody on the bass strings while picking chords on the higher strings?
Definition
Maybelle Carter
Term
Which singer learned the blues as a railroad laborer, later combing it with hillbilly music?
Definition
Jimmie Rodgers
Term
What early producer recorded both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers for Victor in 1927?
Definition
Ralph S. Peer
Term
Which artist became the first Western Movie Star by battling the Phantom Empire from his horse in singing groups 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 started producing the first ever made-for-TV series.
Definition
Gene Autry
Term
The style of country music that is most associated with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is:
Definition
Western Swing
Term
What music style became the predominant influence on popular music from the mid 1930s through the 1940s?
Definition
Swing jazz
Term
Western Swing is a hybrid of what 2 styles of music?
Definition
Swing and Country
Term
"Hey, Good Lookin'," Cold Cold Heart," and "Your Cheatin' Heart" were all written by this person often credited as the best country songwriter of all time.
Definition
Hank Williams, Sr.
Term
Who was the King of Honky-Tonk, who died of an overdose of alcohol and drugs in 1953 at age 29?
Definition
Hank Williams, Sr.
Term
Which 2 men formed the first country music publishing firm in Nashville in 1942?
Definition
Roy Acuff and Fred Rose
Term
What urbanized country style emerged in Southwestern roadhouses during and after WWII?
Definition
Honky-Tonk
Term
Rockabilly can be described as a blend of what 2 styes of music?
Definition
R&B and hillbilly
Term
Which independent record label first discovered and developed Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis?
Definition
Sun Records
Term
Which country and gospel group first brought blues and up-tempo boogie-woogie their music in the late 1940s, in effect the beginning of Rockabilly?
Definition
The Delmore Brothers
Term
What artist combined country and rhythm and blues to create the first rock and roll million-selling hit?
Definition
Bill Haley
Term
What popular country duo's huge single "Cathy's Clown" helped put Warner Bros. Records on the map?
Definition
The Everly Brothers
Term
Who produced Johnny Cash's Grammy-winning American Recordings release?
Definition
Rick Rubin
Term
Besides Don Law, what 2 Nashville producers created the "Nashville Sound?"
Definition
Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins
Term
Who created the first country/rock album, and what is the record's title?
Definition
The Byrds: Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Term
What guitarist formed The Flying Burrito Brothers and "spread the gospel" of electric country guitar oriented music in the late 1960s?
Definition
Gram Parsons
Term
T or F. Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn grew up poor in the Appalachians.
Definition
True.
Term
What 3 cities are the major producers of country music in the USA?
Definition
Nashville, Austin, and ?
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