After the American Civil War, American audiences became more aware of the richness of African music because:

The technique of briefly taking a melody out of proper pitch in order to add emotion is called:

In African society, the performance of music was:

Mamie (Robinson) Smith, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith were

What does it mean to have no chording instrument?

Acid jazz is a type of

Who was the most imitated of all bebop pianists?

In the origins of jazz the practice of taking liberties with melody lines provided a beginning for the tradition of

The style in which the pianist’s left hand plays a bass note on the first and third beat, a chord on the second and fourth beats is called

Some songs sung by slaves contained