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1
Throughout the 19th century what enriched American popular culture?
A)great waves of immigration
B)the introduction of shape-note singing
C)music publishing made music inexpensive to purchase
D)all of the above
2
A form of popular entertainment in the late 18th century in which white men, their skin darkened by burnt cork or coal is called:
A)Zip coon shows
B)Jim Crow shows
C)Dandy shows
D)minstrel shows
3
Of the two characters that emerged from minstrel acts which one was a fashionable dandy of elegant dress and manners?
A)Jim Crow
B)Zip Coon
C)Charles Dandy
D)Juba
4
What instrument is considered America's only truly indigenous instrument?
A)fiddle
B)washboard
C)jew's harp
D)banjo
5
Which person below helped to develop the modern day banjo?
A)Thomas "Daddy" Rice
B)Joel Walker Sweeney
C)Daniel Emmet
D)Stephen Foster
6
The "father" of American minstrelsy was:
A)Dan Emmett
B)J. P. Christy
C)Joel Sweeney
D)Thomas "Daddy" Rice
7
The first completely independent minstrel show was the:
A)Fisk Jubilee Singers
B)Log Cabin Slave Singers
C)"Daddy" Rice's Minstrel Troupe
D)Virginia Minstrels
8
"I Wish I was in the Land of Dixie" was composed by which minstrel performer?
A)Dan Emmett
B)E. P. Christy
C)Stephen Foster
D)Thomas "Daddy" Rice
9
The first well-known black songwriter is:
A)E. P. Christy
B)James Blandford
C)Dan Emmett
D)James Bland
10
Virginia's state song "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" was composed by:
A)E. P. Christy
B)James Bland
C)Stephen Foster
D)Dan Emmett
11
"Turkey in the Straw" was known in 1834 as the tune:
A)"Turkey in the Straw"
B)"Old Zip Coon"
C)"Oh, Dem Golden Slippers"
D)"Flappin dem Jacks"
12
The most well-known and popular composer of the Pre-Civil War is:
A)Dan Emmett
B)Stephen Foster
C)E. P. Christy
D)Clara Ward Stowe
13
What term did Foster use, revolutionary at the time, to describe a slave?
A)"lady"
B)"woman"
C)"tender child"
D)none of the above
14
This group made "Oh, Susanna" a national hit in 1848.
A)Emmett's Minstrels
B)Barnum's Travelling Troupe
C)Christy's Minstrels
D)all of the above
15
Who wrote the earliest known contracts between American publishers and individual songwriters?
A)E. P. Christy
B)Stephen Foster
C)Harry Remick
D)Dan Emmett
16
"To Anacreon in Heaven" was renamed "The Star Spangled Banner" by whom?
A)Francis Scott Key
B)Thomas Carr
C)Harriet Beecher Stowe
D)E. P. Cristy
17
In what year did "The Star Spangled Banner" become our national anthem?
A)1898
B)1931
C)1786
D)1865
18
The Civil War tune "Aura Lee" was made popular again in the 1950s by this singer:
A)Frank Sinatra
B)Elvis Presley
C)Bill Haley and the Comets
D)Chuck Berry
19
The most successful singing family after the Civil War were the:
A)Von Trapps
B)Ronstadts
C)Hutchinsons
D)Partidges
20
Songs in strophic form where the top voice has the melody and the other voices sing harmony are called:
A)cadets
B)a capella
C)"fuging" tunes
D)glees
21
Particularly popular with Band concerts was a piece of programmatic music that:
A)reenacted the sounds and music of the Civil War
B)led a circus into town
C)reminded the audiences of minstrel music
D)all of the above
22
Who formed America's first band conceived entirely as a concert ensemble?
A)John Philip Sousa
B)Victor Herbert
C)Andrew Leinbach
D)Patrick Gilmore
23
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" is attributed to:
A)John Philip Sousa
B)Morton Gould
C)Patrick Gilmore
D)Stephen Foster
24
A march consists of a series of melodic sections called:
A)stanzas
B)strophes
C)strains
D)trio





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