Music+-+Blues+and+Jazz+in+the+1930s

Selections:
//St. Louis Blues (SW)// //Midnight Special (JH)// //I Got Rhythn (DC)// //Cotton Tail (TW)//


 * //__Sample Questions:__//**


 * 1) The golden age of blues was 1920 through (Blank).
 * 2) Of steady beat, bent notes, //rubato,// call and response, and 2 bar structure, only (Blank) is NOT typical of the blues.
 * 3) All of ragtime, stride, New Orleans, minstrelsy, and Creole influence were included in early jazz except (Blank).
 * 4) Tin Pan Alley was in (Blank).
 * 5) (Blank) was a recorded blues piece that helped usher in the "Jazz Age".
 * 6) Tin Pan Alley was a (Blank).
 * 7) The MOST famous song plugger on Tin Pan Alley was (Blank).
 * 8) The "Father of the blues" was (Blank).
 * 9) "Porgy and Bess" was composed by (Blank).
 * 10) Of Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy, Woody Guthrie, Charlie Patton, and Lead Belly, all were blues and jazz composers EXCEPT (Blank).
 * 11) Of classic, downhome, Chicago, St.Louis, and improv, all are considered blues styles EXCEPT (Blank).
 * 12) Ella Fitzgerald was a (Blank) era vocalist.
 * 13) (Blank) was a song that was originally written in Yiddish.
 * 14) Of joy, love, pain, luck, and hope, (Blank) best describes the essence of the blues.