American Popular Music: Genre
Across
- 3. Music developed in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s
- 5. A rhythmic, danceable form of music that mixes soul, jazz, and R&B
- 6. A professional story teller, verse-maker, or music composer
- 7. Form of American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music
- 8. A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style or form
- 12. Formal traditional music of Western Europe
Down
- 1. A type of music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media
- 2. Music consisting of ballads and dance tunes blues, church music and spirituals, old-time and American folk music
- 4. A type of song, usually religious, written for the purpose of adoration or prayer
- 6. Musical form originated in the Deep South of the United States by former slaves
- 9. Music form which originated in the 1950s from black American music
- 10. Dance music that emerged in the 1970s from the United States's urban nightlife scene
- 11. Music that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States