Chapter 6 World of Music

Chapter 6 Terms

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Rhythm and Blues
A style of black popular music that originally featured a boogie-woogie-style piano accompaniment in blues form, a blues singer, and electric guitar.
Nashville Sound
The sound of hillbilly music produced by sophisticated recording techniques and arrangements controlled by the recording studios.
Western Swing
A brand of western music that used a larger instrumental ensemble including saxes, brass, and a standard jazz rhyhm section of piano, bass, and drums.
Tin Pan Alley
A period of opoular song writing that began in the 1890s and whose most productive years were in the 1920s and 1930s.
Minstrel Show
A variety show, popular in the nineteenth century, that included songs, dances, and comical skits.
Vaudeville
Born in 1927 with the jazz singer, the first commercial movie with a synchronized sound track.
Honky-Tonk
Western music performed on the piano in small-town saloons.
Hillbillly
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Bluegrass
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Musicals
A theatrical work that included songs, dances, staging, and drama.
Hip-hop
Streety poetry; rap
Soul
Any popular music performed by blacks for black audiences; combining elements of R&B, jazz, and black gospel.
Rock
An underground, ainti establishment, protest music.