Plains pow-wow music uses a three beat-pattern AA' BC BC form with each phrase grouping ending with a formulaic cadential pattern of genre-specific vocables. This form is called:

Pow-wow singing is always in one of two styles. What are they?
Northern and Southern

The advent of European settlement was the major force that triggered the start of pow-wows.
False

The Oklahoma Ponca share the same language and music with the Omaha.
True

In Pow-wow music, Southern singing is generally done with a lower voice, and slightly slower tempo, while Northern musicians tend toward faster tempos and more active rhythmic structures.
True

The musical ancestors to today's pow-wow repertory are:
The song-forms of the Omaha and Ponca Nation's Heluska War Dances

The contemporary intertribal pow-wow has become a major force to maintain intact the music and dance traditions among today's Indian populations.
False

Plains pow-wow music uses a three beat-pattern AA' BC BC form with each phrase grouping ending with a formulaic cadential pattern of genre-specific vocables. This form is called:
Omaha form


The instrument depicted above is a:
Hand drum

Northern area pow-wow styles include drum groups from the:
Central plains and Great Lakes region

One major difference between old-time events and the modern pow-wow is that contemporary pow-wows are:
Open to any (including non-Indians) who wish to attend

Johnny Cash was influenced by African-American blues performers.
True

A hardcore twang performer is:
The Carter Family

Country Music is mainly derived from ballads, comedic stories, and songs like "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster.
False

Which of the following does NOT represent a famous southern exponent of rockabilly music:
Gene Autry

Who is the softshell performer in this list:
Vince Gill

What are some of the "tangled" cultural roots of country music?
All of the above

In the 1920s and 30s, despite the fact that country music was marketed separately for many years, black and white southern music remained accessible to all.
True

1920s rural southerners performed in a style that...
Included folksy nasal singing often accompanied by string instruments.

In the 1920s and 30s, sales of southern rural music became artificially segregated because:
Marketers didn't recognize the extent of the southern musical culture.

What country music also uses jazz rhythms, harmonies, and other elements in its performance styles?
All of the above

According to a National Endowment for the Arts survey, country music became America's most popular music in the 1980s.
False

Why were hardcore twangers, rockers, honky-tonkers, folk singers, traditionalists, and other roots-oriented musicians and audiences upset with Nashville as it became "Music City"?
It's too suburban softshell

Which of the following is NOT a design element of country music?
Cinquain

Which of the following elevated the string band performances of Appalachian music into a virtuosic instrumental style called bluegrass in the 1940s?
Bill Monroe

What kind of cultural function does country music provide for its audiences?
All of the above

Cowboy songs from the 1930s and 40s were not yet influenced by jazz harmonies and rhythms.
False

Which of the following singers is NOT representative of the "countrypolitan" style that became the mainstream Nashville sound through the 60s, 70s, and beyond?
Hank Williams

The so-called "Nashville sound" was developed in the 1950s by:
Chet Atkins

Western rural musical styles developed in the:
1930s

In the 1930s, Western rural musical styles developed particularly in the new genre of western films.
True