Chapter 7 Pop Music Jeopardy Review
Categories
The Big Singers
Urban Folk Music
Mambo
Rhythm & Blues
Jump Blues
Blues Crooners
Chicago Electric Blues
Women in R&B
Country & Western
Country Crooners
Bluegrass
Honky-tonk
The Big Singers
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
Name one of the “big singers”
of the post-war era
In which city/state was Frank
Sinatra born?
What do you call the style of
singing that greatly influenced
the “big singers” of the postwar era?
Who was the most successful
black recording artist of the
postwar period?
Nat King Cole was also very
talented at playing which
instrument, and became a
strong influence on later jazz
musicians?
Frank Sinatra or Nat King
Cole
Hoboken, NJ
Which musician/songwriter’s
protest songs greatly
influenced urban folk music?
Who was the first urban folk
group to achieve commercial
success?
Who led The Weavers while
singing and playing the banjo?
All members of the Weavers
were once accused of being
supporters of what type of
government/political
affiliation?
What was the title of the
Weavers’ most successful
recording?
Woody Guthrie
Who is credited for doing the
most to popularize the
mambo?
What famous song did
Damaso Perez Prado write?
Damaso Perez Prado
Crooning
Nat King Cole
Piano
Urban Folk Music
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
The Weavers
Pete Seeger
Communism
“Goodnight Irene”
Mambo
$100
$200
Mambo No. 5
$300
$400
$500
In 1999, who created and
performed a popular cover of
Mambo No. 5?
Name 1 similarity and 1
difference between Prado’s
and Bega’s versions of
Mambo No. 5
The mambo was the most
popular form of Latin dance
music in the US just before the
rise of what genre of music?
Lou Bega
Rhythm and Blues became the
new name for which genre of
music?
R&B was primarily performed
by who?
R&B was primarily sold to
who?
R&B is a collection of styles
that can be traced from folk
traditions in what region of the
US?
What is the term for
recreating/exploiting a song
originally recorded and
performed by another artist?
Race Music
What is the most common
instrumentation for a jump
band?
What is the name of the most
famous jump band?
Who was the leader of the
most famous jump band, the
Tympany Five?
In addition to his music, Louis
Jordan was also a talented
“what” which increased his
appeal to the crowd?
“combos”- piano, bass, drums,
two trumpets, two saxophones
Similar- scream/grunt, use of
horns, fast tempo
Differences- more
instrumental in original
Rock n’ Roll
Rhythm & Blues
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
African Americans
African Americans
The South
Making a cover/ covering
Jump Blues
$100
$200
$300
$400
The Tympany Five
Louis Jordan
Comedian
$500
What was the title of Louis
Jordan’s biggest hit?
“Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie”
Blues crooning was a blend of
what two styles?
Who was the most successful
blues crooner of the later
1940s and early 1950s?
Why didn’t Charles Brown’s
most successful song “Black
Night” show up on the pop
charts?
Charles Brown’s most
successful song, “Black
Night,” follows what common
blues form?
Charles Brown studied what
instrument as a child?
Blues and pop singing
The Chicago Electric Blues
derived directly from what
blue tradition?
Who is the “Father of Chicago
Blues?”
Muddy Waters was a master
of what guitar technique?
What was Waters’s biggest hit
record for Chess Records?
What is a word to describe
Waters’ singing style, which is
similar to Charley Patton’s
from the Delta Blues?
Mississippi Delta Blues
Which female singer is also
known as “Miss Rhythm?”
What is a characteristic of
Ruth Brown’s singing style as
heard in “Mama, He Treats
Ruth Brown
Blues Crooner
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
Charles Brown
Dark mood, slow tempo,
somber lyrics
12 bar blues
Classical Piano
Chicago Electric Blues
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
Muddy Waters
Bottleneck/slide guitar
“Hoochie Coochie Man”
Rough, growling, moaning,
intensely emotional
Women in R&B
$100
$200
Warm, husky, strong rhythmic
feeling, upward squeals at the
ends of words.
$300
$400
$500
Your Daughter Mean?”
What is the most notable
characteristic of Big Mama
Thornton’s voice and singing
style?
Who was the most popular
black female vocalist of the
early 1950s?
“Mama, He Treats Your
Daughter Mean” follows a
blues form that is how many
bars long?
Deep, raspy sound
Ruth Brown
16
Country & Western
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
Which female
Country/Western artist sold
more records than any other
female singer of the early
1950’s?
What was Patti Page’s biggest
hit recording?
What were Patti Page’s songs
usually about?
Country & Western is the new
name for which previously
studied genre?
Name another popular song
recorded by Patti Page.
Patti Page
Who is the most popular
country crooner?
What song was a turning point
for Eddy Arnold, crossing him
over into the pop music
market?
What aspects of country are
heard in Eddy Arnold’s
music?
Eddy Arnold
“Tennessee Waltz”
Love/Nostalgia
Hillbilly Music
“The Doggie in the Window”
Country Crooners
$100
$200
$300
$400
What popular aspects are
“Bouquet of Roses”
Accompanied by typical
country band (electric guitar,
electric bass, drums, piano),
slight southern accent, a little
bit of rasp in voice.
Rich, smooth baritone voice;
$500
heard in Eddy Arnold’s
music?
What do traditional country
music fans still think of Eddy
Arnold today?
string orchestra
accompaniment
They view him as a sell-out.
Who is the pioneer of
bluegrass music?
After performing with his
brother, what was the name of
the group that Bill Monroe
started?
Name 3 instruments
commonly heard in bluegrass
music
The improvisation in
bluegrass music is influenced
by what?
In bluegrass music, the string
bass provides support by
playing on which beats?
Bill Monroe
What is a honky-tonk?
Name 3 instruments
commonly found in a honkytonk band.
Who was one of the first
honky-tonk performers?
Hank Thompson created a
popular variation of honkytonk music by combining it
with elements of what genre?
“Slipping Around,” recorded
by Ernest Tubb, was the first
country song to be written
about what topic?
A loud bar
Fiddle, steel guitar, lead
guitar, string bass, piano.
Bluegrass
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
Blue Grass Boys
Fiddle, guitar, mandolin,
banjo, bass
Country fiddle contests and/or
black music such as jazz
1 and 3
Honky Tonk
$100
$200
$300
$400
$500
Ernest Tubb
Western swing
Marriage infidelity