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1
Which one of the following groups did NOT influence Hawaiian music?
A)missionaries
B)tourists
C)settlers from foreign lands
D)traders bringing good from Europe
2
Hawaiians invented the "slack key guitar" by:
A)using a bottleneck to strum the strings
B)using volcanic ash hardened to make guitar picks
C)using mother of pearl for frets
D)loosening the strings of the guitar
3
The Hawaiian steel guitar is better known for its use in ________ music.
A)trance
B)country
C)Dixieland music
D)all of the above
4
Tin Pan Alley performers often used this instrument to accompany themselves:
A)guitar
B)ukulele
C)steel guitar
D)none of the above
5
What ethnic group brought Cajun music to Louisiana?
A)Africans
B)Cubans
C)French Acadians from Nova Scotia
D)none of the above
6
Instead of piano keys, the Cajun accordion has:
A)strings
B)reeds through which the wind blows to produce sound
C)10 melody buttons
D)metal rods which resonate when they are struck by the player
7
What kind of music comes from the saying "the beans aren't salted"?
A)Cajun
B)Zydeco
C)Creole
D)none of the above
8
Urban folk-music started getting performed in a polished and suave manner to appeal to:
A)popular music fans
B)country music fans
C)a more global audience
D)it was because they started to have better recording methods
9
This "hobo" influenced the folk music revival:
A)John Lomax
B)Alan Lomax
C)Woody Guthrie
D)Jimmie Rodgers
10
"This Land is Your Land" was composed to protest what popular song?
A)America the Beautiful
B)If I Had A Hammer
C)God Bless America
D)Waltzing Matilda
11
Pete Seeger formed this popular folk music group who's first hit was "Goodnight Irene"
A)Peter, Paul and Mary
B)The Weavers
C)A Circle Returns Unbroken
D)The Letterman
12
Which former prison convict was "discovered" by Alan Lomax and frequently performed with political protest groups of the 1960s.
A)Jumpin John Redding
B)Robert Johnson
C)Leadbelly
D)John Robertson
13
Which of the following performers did not have an impact on the Urban Folk-music renewal?
A)Joan Baez
B)The Mamas and the Papas
C)Bob Dylan
D)New Christy Minstrels
14
Who said "Rock is what future centuries will probably say was the twentieth-century folk music"?
A)Bob Dylan
B)Pete Seeger
C)Joan Baez
D)Woody Guthrie
15
Alternative country blends the polished, professional sounds of Nashville with those of:
A)dance music
B)electronica
C)new wave
D)punk





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