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WorksheetsThe Birth of Rock
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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
Sam Phillips signed what famous artists?
Elvis
Johnny Cash
Jerry Lee Lewis
All of these
Many early rock and roll recordings were
covers of songs by black singers.
written by Elvis
Chuck Berry was from .....
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Memphis
Chuck Berry was an innovative ________.
Guitarist
Piano Player
Drummer
Country Singer
The song "Johnny B. Goode" is by which early rocker?
Chuck Berry
Elvis
Carl Perkins
The Beatles
During the 1950's, what became a viable market for music?
WWII Vets
Senior Citizens
Teenagers
Country fans
Rock and roll was blamed for
teenage deliquency
WWII
Vietnam
poverty
How was rock marketed to white suburban teens?
Selling them records of bland white performances of black songs
Emphasizing black musicians
