Prelude 7

President Obama's 2008 campaign inspired popular musicians to create music with political undertones.

Which popular artist was paid an unprecedented $50,000 to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s?

Which composer was blacklisted during the "red scare" of the 1950s and 60s?

The Wall Street crash of 1929 was the catalyst for the creation of escapist entertainments found in musical theater.

Film and radio did much to transmit music and dance trends.

Which of the following was NOT a music-focused TV show in the 1950s?

Much of the music at the original Woodstock festival reflected:

Popular music in the last half of the twentieth century was rarely political

By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had become the artistic and cultural center of the United States.

P. T. Barnum sought to ban traveling music shows in New York venues.

Armed Forces Radio played patriotic tunes in their broadcasts.

George M. Cohan was an important composer of inspirational patriotic songs.

Rap music by such artists as Chuck D from Public Enemy were rarely political.

The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.

Which musician is NOT known for performing political music in the 1950s and 60s?

Jazz and ragtime were important to the dissemination of patriotic music after World War I.

Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

Tin Pan Alley was a street where all the composers of ragtime lived

Gershwin's works reflect a merger of jazz elements and classical forms.