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American Music History Crossword

ACROSS 1. Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonius Monk

created this style of jazz 3. Popular music is considered music you can do this

activity to. 4. In 1850, this music was considered “popular music.” 8. The last name of the father of modern march music. 9. Louis Armstrong popularized this type of vocal style.10. The modern marching band evolved hand-in-hand

with the popularity of this sport.12. The technique a jazz musician uses when playing a solo.14. Many of the best American songwriters worked in

this block of New York City.15. The popularity of ragtime was spread through this media.16. The solid hit played on the snare drum on beats 2 and

4 of an R&B groove.17. The horn section in a New Orleans jazz band.18. The blues were a major component of this new style

of music that appeared in the 1950s.19. Style of jazz played by big bands.

DOWN 1. Field hollers and other work songs eventually

developed into this musical form. 2. The capital city of country music. 5. The name of the most famous ragtime composer. 6. Gospel music developed from the way that

African-Americans sang this type of Christian music. 7. The country radio program that has been running

since 1925.11. Many songs in the Great American Songbook were

first introduced as part of Broadway _____________.13. This instrument first “electrified” during the Swing era.

* Eliminate spaces in multi-word answers.EXAMPLE: TREBLE CLEF ð TREBLECLEF

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