Module 4 Review

Because of the popularity of country music, Nashville has become known as:

• Tin Pan Alley of the South

• the Heart of Country.

• Music City, U.S.A.

• Country Music City.

Race records refer to:

• the race to make popular records.

• the record industry’s efforts to appeal to various regional and ethnic groups.

• records about the popular sport of racing.

• recordings made by individual races.

Early country music performers sometimes dressed in straw hats and ragged clothes referred to as:

• stage costumes.

• rube costumes.

• country and western wear.

• barn dance costumes.

The two most successful barn-dance format radio shows were the Grand Ole Opry and:

• The Roy Rogers Show.

• Gene Autry’s Cowboy Show.

• Nashville USA

• National Barn Dance.

The most famous of the “singing cowboys” was:

• Johnny Cash.

• John Carson.

• Gene Autry.

• Jimmie Rodgers.

Western Swing, an eclectic dance music, originated in:

• California.

• Oregon.

• Texas.

• Tennessee.

One of the most famous family singing groups was:

• the Rodgers Family.

• the Carter Family.

• Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

• His Tanner and the Skillet Lickers.

——-is a sub genre that developed in country music’s history, but sounds like it is much older.

• Hobo music

• Train music

• Barn-dance music

• Bluegrass music

The first 30 years of commercial country music were male-dominated because:

• the popular country music topics of hard-drinking and cheating were not acceptable for women.

• Conservative country music fans didn’t approve of single women doing road trips.

• Southern culture guarded womanly virtue.

• All of the above.