The Birth of Rock

What was the area of the Mississippi Delta known for in the early 1900's?

• Economic Prosperity

• Poverty and dangerous living conditions

• Industry

• The land of opportunity

What made life in the Mississippi delta challenging?

• Flooding

• The sharecropping system

• Difficult farming conditions

• All of these

The blues was known as

• The sound of rural poverty

• cheerful

• the most popular music in the USA

• White people music

What system took the place of slavery in the south?

• Sharecropping

• Commercialism

• Capitalism

• Communism

Blues performers often sang about what?

• Far off places

• Their Struggles

• Their happy lives

Where did people go during The Great Migration?

• From the south to the north

• from the north to the south

• from the USA to Europe

• from Europe to the USA

The electric guitar was an important innovation.

• True

• False

Why did musicians need to amplify their voice and instruments?

• Bigger venues required louder music

• So they could travel easily

• To use autotune

What made the electric guitar more attractive than the piano to teenagers?

• cheaper

• portable

• "cooler"

• All of these

Sam Phillips was the owner of what recording studio in Memphis?

• Sun Records

• Chess Records

• Columbia Records

• BMG Records