Test Bank Rockin' Out Popular Music in the U.S.A, Updated 6th Edition Reebee Garofalo A+

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1. Thomas Dartmouth Rice is credited with
2. developing the earliest form of blackface.
3. creating the character known as Jim Crow.
4. bringing an urban flavor into minstrelsy.
5. writing “Turkey in the Straw.”

Correct Answer: B

1.1: Minstrelsy and the Making of Mainstream U.S. Culture

1.1: Describe minstrelsy, where white performers appropriated qualities of blackness for their own economic and cultural gain to the amusement of white onlookers

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand

1. What characterizes Stephen Foster’s music?
   1. A more sympathetic view of African-American culture
   2. An increasingly exaggerated characterization of black people
   3. Overt condemnation of the racism inherent in popular culture
   4. A nostalgia for the predominance of slavery in the South

Correct Answer: A

1.1: Minstrelsy and the Making of Mainstream U.S. Culture

1.1: Describe minstrelsy, where white performers appropriated qualities of blackness for their own economic and cultural gain to the amusement of white onlookers

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand

1. The rise of vaudeville coincided with a rise in
   1. disc production.
   2. piano production.
   3. minstrel shows.
   4. radio broadcasts.

Correct Answer: B

1.2: Sheet Music, Sound Recording, and the Sounds of Music

1.2: Explain how the music industry came to be driven by sales of sheet music and then by sales of recorded sound

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze

1. What would have been a Tin Pan Alley writer’s most important financial concern?
   1. Radio play
   2. Disc sales
   3. Live concerts
   4. Sheet music sales

Correct Answer: D

1.2: Sheet Music, Sound Recording, and the Sounds of Music

1.2: Explain how the music industry came to be driven by sales of sheet music and then by sales of recorded sound

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze

1. Irving Berlin’s Stop That Rag was an example of the
   1. melding of two styles of music into new musical form.
   2. invention of ragtime as a musical style.
   3. white appropriation of an African American musical form.
   4. introduction of black music into “high” culture.

Correct Answer: C

1.3: Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition

1.3: Identify the various music forms that Tin Pan Alley came to be associated with

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze

1. Who was known as the Father of the Blues?
   1. WC Handy
   2. Irving Berlin
   3. George Gershwin
   4. Arthur Seals

Correct Answer: A

1.3: Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition

1.3: Identify the various music forms that Tin Pan Alley came to be associated with

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand

1. What is one factor that made George Gershwin unique among his contemporaries?
   1. He incorporated jazz and blues into his compositions.
   2. His music was accepted among both black and white audiences.
   3. He guided Tin Pan Alley toward accepting black music performers.
   4. His arrangements used both “sweet” and “hot” music.

Correct Answer: B

1.3: Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition

1.3: Identify the various music forms that Tin Pan Alley came to be associated with

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand

1. What was one result of the creation of ASCAP?
   1. Black performers were granted equal rights to be paid for their music.
   2. Rival organizations were soon formed to challenge ASCAP’s power.
   3. Mostly white performers exercised power over public taste.
   4. Musicians across all genres of music were provided with royalties.

Correct Answer: C

1.3: Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition

1.3: Identify the various music forms that Tin Pan Alley came to be associated with

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Understand

1. Which of the following was one of James Reese Europe’s achievements?
   1. He led the first black band to be granted a recording contract.
   2. He helped revise the copyright laws in 1909.
   3. He introduced the “Ragtime Tango” into popular music.
   4. He spearheaded efforts to replace cylinders with discs.

Correct Answer: A

1.3: Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition

1.3: Identify the various music forms that Tin Pan Alley came to be associated with

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Understand

1. British domination of radio led to the creation of
   1. General Electric.
   2. The Radio Corporation of America.
   3. Westinghouse.
   4. American Telephone and Telegraph.

Correct Answer: B

1.4: Commercial Broadcasting and Private Enterprise

1.4 Explain the growth of commercial radio broadcasting

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Understand

1. What was Lee de Forest’s position on the role of radio?
   1. It should raise the cultural level of its listeners.
   2. It was a fertile area for the profit of its advertisers.
   3. It should be subject to firm government regulations.
   4. Advertisers should have a major voice in programming.

Correct Answer: A

1.4: Commercial Broadcasting and Private Enterprise

1.4 Explain the growth of commercial radio broadcasting

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Understand

1. What was one effect of the Great Depression on radio?
   1. There was a slowdown in listenership.
   2. Rural music received more national airplay.
   3. Advertisers gained more power over programming.
   4. “Straight” programming dominated the airwaves.

Correct Answer: C

1.4: Commercial Broadcasting and Private Enterprise

1.4 Explain the growth of commercial radio broadcasting

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Understand

1. What movie first demonstrated that Tin Pan Alley would play a major role in film??
   1. The Jazz Singer
   2. Broadway Melody
   3. The Big Broadcast
   4. Holiday Inn

Correct Answer: B

1.5: Tin Pan Alley Goes Hollywood . . . and Latin

1.5: Summarize the major role played by Tin Pan Alley compositions in Hollywood and especially in Latin-themed films

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand

1. What was a major factor in the development of Bing Crosby’s style?
   1. The Good Neighbor policy
   2. His background in “hot” jazz
   3. The persistence of minstrelsy
   4. Technological advances

Correct Answer: D

1.5: Tin Pan Alley Goes Hollywood . . . and Latin

1.5: Summarize the major role played by Tin Pan Alley compositions in Hollywood and especially in Latin-themed films

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand

1. What best describes the expression “Latin Tinge”?
   1. The name of an artificially created, short-lived fad
   2. A reference to a slow-building grass-roots surge
   3. A superficial term for a deeper phenomenon
   4. The designation of a thoroughly white appropriation

Correct Answer: C

1.5: Tin Pan Alley Goes Hollywood . . . and Latin

1.5: Summarize the major role played by Tin Pan Alley compositions in Hollywood and especially in Latin-themed films

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Evaluate

Essay Questions

1. Describe the different cultural influences that went into the phenomenon of American blackface minstrelsy.

1.1: Minstrelsy and the Making of Mainstream U.S. Culture

1.1: Describe minstrelsy, where white performers appropriated qualities of blackness for their own economic and cultural gain to the amusement of white onlookers

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze

1. Discuss the technological and economic factors that delayed the proliferation of the recorded disc.

1.2: Sheet Music, Sound Recording, and the Sounds of Music

1.2: Explain how the music industry came to be driven by sales of sheet music and then by sales of recorded sound

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze

1. How is it that Tin Pan Alley could be described as having both “a homogeneous style” and “enormous range”?

1.3: Tin Pan Alley Creates Musical Tradition

1.3: Identify the various music forms that Tin Pan Alley came to be associated with

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Evaluate

1. Describe the major conflict that persisted through the rise and dominance of radio.

1.4: Commercial Broadcasting and Private Enterprise

1.4 Explain the growth of commercial radio broadcasting

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze

1. Discuss the influence of the rise of talking pictures on the music business.

1.5: Tin Pan Alley Goes Hollywood . . . and Latin

1.5: Summarize the major role played by Tin Pan Alley compositions in Hollywood and especially in Latin-themed films

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skill Level: Analyze