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| What are the identifying characteristics of a "true" folk song? |
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| Songs of anonomous authorship, passed down generation to generation |
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| Is instrumentation a deciding factor when determining whether music is "true" folk music? |
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| The long-term collective changing of knowledge passed down orally |
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| The Appalacian music tradition gets most of its Celtic music tradition from what countries? |
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| Scottland, Ireland, and England |
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| What were the churces called in slave times where the spirituals were 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 folklorists 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 seperate 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 5 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 spirit of the poor Okie farmer of the Depression and came to symbolize the radical political folk musician? |
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| What artist was dubbed "America's tuning fork", was blacklisted by HUAC in the 60's, and wrote civil rights folk anthems like "We shall Overcome", and "Turn Turn Turn"? |
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| Why did the Weavers get blacklisted by HUAC in the mid 1950's? |
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| They were exposed as having strong connections with the Communist party |
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| What East Coast folk artist openly opposed the Vietnam War by organizing the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence? |
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| What is Greenwich Village? |
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| A neighborhood in lower New York City |
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| Who was the legendary A&R man who discovered Bob Dylan? |
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| Why is Bob Dylan considered the most important songwriter of the 1950's? |
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| He broadened the scope of what the lyrics could be in popular music with poetry and intellegence |
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| What songwriter changed popular music with deeply personal, highly intellegent and poetic lyrics. For Example, "Knockin on Heaven's Door"? |
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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 single most important influence? |
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| Who continued to sing protest songs into the seventies, largely unheard, his life ending in suicide? |
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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 radio before 1948 came from what source? |
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| Live from studio or performance |
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| Which radio station developed the Grand Ole Opry? |
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| What cornerstone family is credited with setting many standards of the country music style? |
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| What country star developed the guitar playing technice of playing the melody on the bass strings while picking chords on the higher strings? |
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| Which singer learned the blues as a railroad worker, later combining it with Hillbilly music? |
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| What early producer recorded both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers for Victor in 1929? |
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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"? |
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| The style of country music most associated with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is: |
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| What musical style became the predominant influence on popular music from the mid 1930's to the 1940's? |
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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 Rodgers? |
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| This person is 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 alchohol and drugs in 1953 at age 29? |
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| Which two men formed the first country music publishing company in Nashville in 1942? |
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| What style emerged in white Southwestern Roadhouses and juke joints during and after World War II? |
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| Rockabilly 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, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis? |
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| Which country and gospel group first brought blues harmonica and up-tempo boogie-woogie to their music in the late 1940's, in effect the beggining of Rockabilly? |
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| What country artist had the first so-called Rock and Rol milloion-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 Johnny 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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| What three cities are the major producers of Country Music in the USA? |
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| Bakersfield, CA; Nashville, TN; and Austin, TX |
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| The West Coast style of Country artists, is best described as a blend of what two older country styles? |
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| Rockabilly and Honky-tonk |
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| Glen Campbell represents what style in mid to late 1960's country? |
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| Who created the first Country/Rock album and what was the record's 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 country guitar oriented music in the late 1960's? |
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| Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark formed what legendary innovative popular group? |
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| Stephen Stills, Jim Messina, and Neil Young formed what country rock group in the 1960's? |
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| Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman, Chris Etheridge, and Pete Kleinow formed what country rock group of the late 1960's? |
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