Semester 1 Review

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How was success gauged for popular music in the 1800's?

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Sheet Music Sales

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Who was the first "Popular" songwriter?

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Stephen Foster

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What was the name of the popular band that toured America in the 1800's playing minstrel songs?

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Christy's Minstrels

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This simple style of music began in the Mississippi Delta and predates most all popular music?

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Blues

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Who was the inventor of Ragtime music who died penniless at the age of 48?

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Scott Joplin

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Where did Jazz first begin to form?

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Bars and Speakeasies

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Three cities played a large part in forming Jazz. What were they?

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Chicago, New York, New Orleans

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Country music was originally called what?

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Hillbilly

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Hillbilly is very similar to what other type of rural music?

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Blues

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Choose the two most important figures in early Hillbilly Music: Johnny Cash and Kenny Rodgers, Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr., Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers, Nashville Cats and Lovin' Spoonful

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Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers