Country Blues to WWII

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Across
  1. 4. Early country _________ music (1930s-1940s) reflected the difficulties of southern African Americans' lives
  2. 6. Several of the musicians we studied grew up in this state
  3. 7. The US ___ expanded in size from 2 million to OVER 12 million from 1941-1945.
  4. 10. After losing her home and everything to a Mississippi River flood, Bessie Smith wrote the "___" Blues
  5. 13. The Mississippi River's ______ was (and is) an area full of rural communities
  6. 16. ___ affected the supplies available to build instruments, travel, and eat.
  7. 17. This blues musician earned great fame in Chicago after first selling window blinds to get by
  8. 18. This style of music, also influenced by the early blues, also became more popular in the 1940s and 1950s.
  9. 19. This famous early Rock & Roll musician sang about "Johnny B. Goode" in 1958
  10. 20. From 1941-1945, ___ War II changed how everyone lived in the US and abroad.
  11. 21. This band leader left his orchestra to join the military and form a band their to cheer up troops.
Down
  1. 1. To unwind at the end of a day, ___ offered dancing, music, and social time
  2. 2. A common job of poor, southern African Americans in the early 1900s
  3. 3. A popular dance and music style in the 1930s and 1940s.
  4. 4. In the 1930s and 1940s, American popular music was dominated by ____.
  5. 5. ___ & Blues became more popular in the 1940s and 1950s as Big Bands shrunk in size and were not recording.
  6. 7. Poor living conditions prompted a Great Migration (1910s-1970s) of southern African Americans to northern cities
  7. 8. This musician and his trio were popular early R&B musicians.
  8. 9. The American Federation of Musicians went on a ___ strike from 1942-1944.
  9. 11. A rise of ___ instruments occurred to fill large rooms when the size of music ensembles was shrinking in the 1940s.
  10. 12. Describing the smoke from a ____ as they rolled by, Howlin' Wolf sang "Smokestack Lightnin'" in 1956
  11. 14. When asked what the Blues meant, Muddy Waters said, "___."
  12. 15. One of the popular northern cities where African Americans and Blues musicians moved to