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WorksheetsThe Birth and Flourishing of Rock and Roll
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
Which of the following was NOT a clearly established style in the 1950s?
Country and Western
Rhythm and Blues
Tin Pan Alley/Pop
All of these styles were established.
Tin Pan Alley was dominated by which THREE industries?
Movies
Television and radio
Major record labels
Publishing
How did older generations view rock and roll?
As a new way to make more money in the music industry
As a threat that encouraged unacceptable moral practices
As music for people of all ages
As less acceptable than other genres, such as country and western.
What are THREE reasons for the rise of youth culture in the 1950s?
They were given less responsibility
They had more leisure time
Focus on family values
They had more money to buy records
Which disk-jockey noticed that rhythm and blues was becoming more popular and started a rhythm and blues radio show?
Fats Domino
Little Richard
Les Paul
Alan Freed
Which of the following is NOT a reason independent record labels and regional radio played such a big role in the development of rock and roll?
National labels were eager to sign rhythm and blues and country and western artists.
Major labels were too conservative to be concerned about rhythm and blues music.
Indie labels had to be creative to stay in the game.
Radio networks were too conservative and left a hole for regional radio to fill.
_____ became known for his "duck walk" during guitar solos.
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Elvis Presley
Whose guitar style is the most imitated in all of rock music?
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Pat Boone
Which musician was known for his manic singing and screaming?
Fats Domino
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Pat Boone
Which musician was the first performer to wear makeup?
Chuck Berry
Little Richard
Elvis Presley
Pat Boone
Which musician was among the first to help establish rock and roll as part of the mainstream?
Little Richard
Chuck Berry
Pat Boone
Fats Domino
What are THREE reasons black musicians began to resent white musicians?
Their original recordings were often replicated note for note.
Executives watched rhythm and blues charts to get in on the next big hit.
White musicians were more likely to get signed by an independent label.
Rhythm and blues songs provided material for the pop market.
Elvis started his career as a _____ musician.
Rhythm and blues
Pop
Country and western
Rock and roll
In what way were Elvis's covers different from other covers during this time?
Elvis put his own signature spin on the music.
Elvis reproduced the songs note for note.
Elvis only covered songs by white artists.
Elvis didn't do any cover songs.
Rockabilly music is a combination of what two styles?
Pop and rhythm and blues
Rock and roll and rhythm and blues
Pop and country and western
Rock and roll and country and western
Why was Elvis only filmed for television from the waist up?
His dancing was shockingly inappropriate.
So that the audience could better see his guitar
The audience was not interested in zoomed out images where his face was indistinguishable.
He had a distinctive hairstyle that set a major trend among his youth audience.
The practice of payola involved:
independent labels creating manufacturing plants
white artists covering songs originally performed by black artists
creating business friendships with disc jockeys by offering gifts
selling artist contracts to major record labels
As a song, "Roll Over Beethoven" celebrates:
the beginning of rock and roll in 1955
teenagers listening to rhythm and blues
the demise of the classical music audience
the average day of an American teenager
All of the following events affected the first wave of rock and roll EXCEPT:
Little Richard became an ordained minister
Elvis received his draft notice
Buddy Holly died in a plane crash
Pat Boone had his first rock and roll hit song
What was the focus of the congressional hearings regarding the payola scandal?
the influence of major record labels on the market
the American stereotypes about rhythm and blues music
the radio stations that played rock and roll
the gifts received by disc jockeys
