jazzess_Chapter_12 ARTS MISC|QUESTION AND ANSWERS

Chapter 12: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Why was bebop hard for many fans, critics, and musicians of the 1940s to appreciate? a. Bebop musicians did not play Tin Pan Alley standards. b. The public’s tastes were formed by swing, which functioned as dance music and entertainment, and it viewed bebop as a fad. c. Jazz records and concerts had become too expensive. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 235 TOP: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop 2. During the 1950s, jazz historians began speaking of jazz in terms of schools because: a. the learning of jazz had shifted exclusively to schools b. listeners had to take a course to be able to appreciate it c. after bebop, jazz seemed to splinter into discrete realms of cool jazz, hard bop, and other styles ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 235 TOP: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop 3. Bebop did not cause the first stylistic divide in jazz. All of the following are previous divides EXCEPT: a. During the 1920s, critics attacked Louis Armstrong for playing popular songs. b. During the 1920s, critics attacked Duke Ellington for orchestrating his music. c. Critics in the early 1900s criticized New Orleans jazz as a betrayal of ragtime. d. Critics whose allegiance was to New Orleans jazz criticized swing. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: pp. 235–36 TOP: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop 4. The word jazz did not achieve its present-day meaning until: a. the mid-1930s c. 1964 b. the aftermath of bebop d. the rise of jazz-funk fusion ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 236 TOP: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop 5. Cool jazz, in the context of jazz styles, has: a. aggressive rhythms and overt expressiveness b. a consistent four-beat dance feel c. a light, laid-back, reticent quality ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 236 TOP: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop 6. Cool jazz became associated with white musicians who relocated to California. There is racial irony in this because: a. there was a strong black modern jazz scene in Los Angeles b. the notion of coolness has deep roots in African American culture c. white jazz musicians were also active on the East Coast ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 236 TOP: The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard