Deck 10: Country Music

Question 1

Honky-tonk music was originally

A) performed by women
B) located in Texas bars and clubs
C) acoustic
D) centered on gospel lyrics

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Black gospel music significantly impacted popular music of later decades.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Country song topics often resembled ballad topics: disasters,murders,and other stories.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Who is often considered country music's first protest singer?

A) June Carter
B) Johnny Cash
C) Chet Atkins
D) Hank Williams

Question 5

Country and western is an accurate alternative term for country music.

Question 6

Which performer established the solo song as an important part of hillbilly music?

A) Jimmie Rodgers
B) Roy Acuff
C) Elvis Presley
D) Johnny Cash

Question 7

The yodel was created by the Carter family.

Question 8

Which is not true regarding the Grand Ole Opry?

A) it was an early radio show
B) it was centered in Nashville
C) it featured a form of opera music
D) it was established in the 1920s

Question 9

Honky-tonk bands were electrified to project over their noisy performance setting.

Question 10

The Carter Family represents which of the following country music traditions?

A) the male instrumentalist trend
B) the close, conservative family
C) the rockabilly style
D) honky-tonk

Question 11

Country singers traditionally sang in a highly emotional manner.

Question 12

The oral tradition in the world of country music declined with commercialization of the music.

Question 13

Bluegrass was created by

A) Flatt and Scruggs
B) Bill Monroe
C) Roy Acuff
D) Alison Krauss

Question 14

Country music is connected topically to British ballads.

Question 15

Country music rarely adopted regional trends.

Question 16

Bluegrass contains elements of jazz.

Question 17

The "Nashville Sound" is best described as

A) an early Grand Ole Opry duo
B) country music with pop instrumentation
C) extensive use of yodeling
D) country and western music

Question 18

Gospel is exclusively an African-American genre.

Question 19

Today's country music centers are located in California as well as Nashville.

Question 20

Country and western music evolved in part due to the Great Depression.

Question 21

Which of the following women is not part of the "new country" scene?

A) Patsy Cline
B) Shania Twain
C) LeAnn Rimes
D) Mary Chapin Carpenter

Question 22

In the late 1920s,the term hillbilly was applied to

A) only instrumental music
B) only vocal music
C) only secular country music
D) all country folk music

Question 23

Nashville challenged the threat of rock and roll by

A) going back to increasingly traditional country styles
B) sending talent scouts to search for gifted soloists
C) adding virtuoso instrumentalists to each band
D) adopting some rock characteristics

Question 24

The style of country music in which the lyrics often deal with the harsh facts of life is

A) Cajun
B) honky-tonk
C) bluegrass
D) western swing

Question 25

Bluegrass is primarily

A) instrumental
B) vocal
C) dance-related
D) religious

Question 26

Some traditionalists state that today's country music is being ruined because of "cross over" into rock and pop styles.Discuss this statement considering the broader history of country music.

Question 27

Which genre was a country music response to the big band era?

A) rockabilly
B) western swing
C) bluegrass
D) Cajun

Question 28

Which style of country music began as a response to rock and roll?

A) bluegrass
B) the Nashville sound
C) honky-tonk
D) western swing

Question 29

Jimmie Rodgers often accompanied himself on the

A) mandolin
B) piano
C) guitar
D) dulcimer

Question 30

Rockabilly used the rhythms and instrumentation of

A) rock and roll
B) country music
C) commercial pop
D) the Nashville sound

Question 31

Chet Atkins is probably best known as

A) a fiddler
B) an outstanding singer
C) a great songwriter
D) an influential guitarist

Question 32

Which of the following instruments features buttons that are depressed to form chords?

A) mandolin
B) dulcimer
C) jew's harp
D) autoharp

Question 33

Gene Autry's best-known songs today come from the _________ repertoire.

A) country-western
B) cowboy
C) Nashville
D) Christmas

Question 34

Which of the following was known as the "singing brakeman?"

A) Gene Autry
B) Eddy Arnold
C) Tex Ritter
D) Jimmie Rodgers

Question 35

Western swing was developed in

A) Arizona
B) California
C) Nashville
D) Texas

Question 36

Gene Autry and Tex Ritter represent which trend in country music?

A) the lonely trainman
B) the singing cowboy
C) the reflective prisoner
D) the virtuosic fiddler