Music and Culture in the U.S. 1920s-1930s

(a)   music began amongst African-American communities of the south in the late 1800s as a mixture of spirituals, folk songs, slave work songs, field hollers, European hymns, and dance music.

Bessie Smith was born in poverty in the city of ________,_________.

(a)  

"Downhearted Blues" is one of _________'s most famous recordings.

• Louis Armstrong

• Fats Waller

• Mamie Smith

• Bessie Smith

The _____ was the most popular dance of the 1920s.

• Twist

• Charleston

• Wave

• Lindy Hop

George Gershwin wrote his two most famous pieces in the 1920's "______" and "__________".

• Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris

• America the Beautiful and Semper Fidelis

• God Bless America and

  Stars and Stripes Forever

• White Christmas and It's a Wonderful World

"Someone to Watch Over Me" was written by George Gershwin and __________.

• Bix Beiderbecke

• William Gershwin

• Ira Gershwin

• John S. Gershwin

In 1921___________ becomes the 29th president.

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Warren G. Harding

• Calvin Coolidge

Vice President _________ took over as president from 1923-1929

• Calvin Coolidge

• Thomas R. Marshall

• Charles Gates Dawes

• Charles Curtis

During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages ere restricted or (a)   .

Al Capone's nickname was

• Babyface

• Bumpy

• Scarface

• Fats