8th Grade Review

Match the following..

• Silent Generation

• Born 1900-1924

• Romantic Period

• 1820-1900

• Boomer Generation

• Born 1925-1945

• Lost Generation

• Born 1946-1964

• Greatest Generation

• Born 1883-1900

Match the following

Groups:

(a) Jazz Artists

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(b) Rock n Roll Artists

,

(c) Country Artists

,

(d) Classical Composers

• Duke Ellington

• Ludwig Van Beethoven

• Earl Scruggs

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Peter Tchaikovsky

• Lester Flatt

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Louis Armstrong

• John Phillips Sousa

• Buddy Holly

• Elvis

Reorder the following

• Phonograph

• Radio

• 8 track

• RCA record player

Reorder the following

• iPod

• CD

• Cassette/Walkman

• Streaming

What was the name of the first machine to record and play music?

• Phonograph

• Radio

• Cassette

What war did members of the Lost Generation come of age during?

• WW2

• WW1

• Vietnam War

• Cold War

What famous composer composed the "Stars and Stripes Forever?"

• John Phillip Sousa

• John Eldrige

• George Gershwin

• Beethoven

Name a jazz musician of a the Lost Generation

• Aretha Franklin

• Louis Armstrong

• Vetta Van Dam

Name the jazz revolution that happened in New York in the 1920's

• The Bronx Renaissance

• The New York Renaissance

• The Harlem Renaissance

Who was the King of Ragime?

• Louis Armstrong

• George Gershwin

• Scott Joplin