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| What are the identifying characteristics of a "true" folk song? |
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| Becomes changed over time. Tells story, usually about loved one. |
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| Collective changing of a song, a sort of communal re-creation. |
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| What do hornpipes, jigs, reels, and strathpeys all have in common? |
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| They are old english dances. |
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| Appalachian music tradition gets most of it's Celtic tradition from what countries? |
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| England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales (British Isles) |
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| What best describes all ballad songs? |
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| Tell story, often lengthy narrative about particular figure or event. |
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| What were the churches called in slave times where the spirituals began? |
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| Through what famous singing group did America first learn of spirituals? |
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| 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? |
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| 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? |
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| Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter. |
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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, banjo, guitar, mandolin, and bass fiddle |
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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 musician? |
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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?" |
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| Why did the Weavers become blacklisted by HUAC in the mid 1950s? |
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| They performed at picket lines and union meetings until they were hired by the Village Vanguard in New York. |
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| 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: |
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| What is the traditional music of the black, French speaking country people of the bayou regions of 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 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? |
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| What is Greenwich Village? |
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| An unofficial residential borough of lower Manhattan. It became a haven for radical politics and political art in the late 1950s and 60s. |
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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 influential American pop musician of the 1960s? |
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| He was one of the first "pop" artists to personalize his songs, inspiring countless future songwriters. |
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| What songwriter changed popular music with deeply personal, highly intelligent and poetic lyrics? |
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| 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? |
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| Who continued to sing protest songs into the seventies, though largely unheard, his life ending in suicide? |
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| What was a Medicine Show? |
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| A traveling business selling "patent medicines" like hair tonics, health elixirs, and other snake-oils; closest any rural musician could get full-time employment |
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| The majority of music on the air during the early days of radio came from what source? |
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| T or F. In the early days (1920s thru 40s), aspiring recording artists first had to make a name for themselves in live 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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| 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? |
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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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| "Old-timey" ... growing out of Irish and English folk dances and ballads |
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| 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? |
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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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| Which singer learned the blues as a railroad laborer, later combing it with hillbilly music? |
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| What early producer recorded both the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers for Victor in 1927? |
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| 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. |
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| The style of country music that is most associated with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys is: |
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| What music 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 2 styles of music? |
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| "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. |
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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 2 men formed the first country music publishing firm in Nashville in 1942? |
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| What urbanized country style emerged in Southwestern roadhouses during and after WWII? |
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| Rockabilly can be described as a blend of what 2 styes of music? |
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| Which independent record label first discovered and developed Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis? |
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| 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? |
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| What artist combined country and rhythm and blues to create the first rock and roll million-selling hit? |
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| What popular country duo's huge single "Cathy's Clown" helped put Warner Bros. Records on the map? |
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| Who produced Johnny Cash's Grammy-winning American Recordings release? |
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| Besides Don Law, what 2 Nashville producers created the "Nashville Sound?" |
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| Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins |
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| Who created the first country/rock album, and what is 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 1960s? |
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| T or F. Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn grew up poor in the Appalachians. |
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| What 3 cities are the major producers of country music in the USA? |
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