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Study Guide Test 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jimmie Rodgers | wrote original songs, uses a mix of country, pop, and blues. used a variety of instruments, ex. steel guitar and Jazz horns. image was a ramblin' man - a railroader |
| The Carter Family | AP Carter, Sara and Maybelle. sang about home, church, stability & country life. used traditional songs or songs in that style. sang using a 'mountain' vocal style - clear, nasal, w/out vibrato, little inflection |
| Bob Wills | The backbeat in “Maybellene” comes from honky-tonk, a rhythmic, mid-century, country style that also features a two-beat rhythm. borrowed this 2-beat rhythm from the fox trot, the ubiquitous dance music of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. |
| Xavier Cugat | introduced Latin rhythms to North American audiences through live performance, radio, recordings, television, and motion pictures. During the Latin music craze of the 1930's and 1940's, he helped to popularize rumba, tango, cha-cha-cha, conga, and mambo |
| Perez Prado | popularized the mambo in the 1950s, nicknamed "The King of the Mambo" |
| Tito Puente | composed dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music, named "The King of the Timbales" |
| Rodgers and Hammerstein | after WWII, flowing melodies, waltz rhythms, opera style. Mainstream music becomes more conservative after 1935. lack of syncopation, not dance music |
| Elvis Presley | The First Rock-and-Roll Star recorded his first local hit for Phillips’s Sun Records in 1954. The record, a cover of bluesman Arthur Crudup’s “That’s All Right,” sparked interest on country-western radio |
| Chuck Berry | pioneer of rock and roll who combined blues, country. his poetic lyrics, driving rhythms, and guitar riffs established the guitar as rock and roll's signature instrument |
| Bill Haley | One of the first big rock and roll hits came from an unlikely source, by way of an unlikely place, and took an unlikely path to pop success. Bill Haley (1925–1981), who recorded it, grew up in Pennsylvania listening to the Grand Ole Opry and dream |
| Little Richard | key figure in popular culture and music for decades. Known as the "Architect of Rock 'N' Roll", he combined blues, gospel, & boogie woogie to create a new sound & rhythms that became the foundation of rock and roll |
| Buddy Holly | His style blended country, gospel, rhythm and blues, and pop influences, & his band, The Crickets, became a model for future groups |
| The Beatles | blending genres such as classical, Indian music, and psychedelia into rock. they helped transform pop music from simple entertainment into a serious art form while helping to bridge the gap between popular and avant-garde culture |
| The Rolling Stones | |
| Jimi Hendrix | |
| Eric Clapton | |
| Ray Charles | |
| Bob Dylan | |
| The Supremes | |
| Berry Gordy | |
| Genres | |
| Motown | soul-infused style of pop-R&B, characterized by a, "Sound of Young America" that blended gospel, jazz, and blues with driving, melodic hooks |
| Mambo | Afro-Cuban rhythm (full percussion section and complex rhythms) plus big-band swing (horn sections playing riffs) |
| 1950'2 and 1960's rock | |
| Western Swing | subgenre of country music that emerged in the 1920s-30s in the SW, blending traditional country, cowboy songs, & fiddle tunes with jazz, blues & big band swing. "dance music," it heavily features strings (fiddles, guitars) alongside drums & brass |
| Early Country music | |
| Blues | a melancholy mood, a style of music characterized by highly inflected, often speech-like melodic lines, origins are African American, began as folk style, called County Blues - Robert Johnson. rooted in the South, includes Boogie Woogie piano style |
| Jazz | |
| Bluegrass | a genre of American roots music developed in the 1940s, characterized by high-energy, acoustic string instrumentation (banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bass) and complex vocal harmonies. founded by Bill Monroe |
| Terms | |
| 1960's rock power trio | |
| Haight-Ashbury | |
| Cool Jazz | |
| Electric Blues | The use of electric-acoustic guitars adds a commercial appeal. Uses a Swing beat from Jazz ex. Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker ex. Muddy Waters & T-Bone Walker |
| Multi-tracking | |
| Cover Albums | mew |
| Bluegrass instrumentation: | all strings, no drums or horns |
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