Crossword: The Painful Birth of the Blues and Jazz

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Across
  1. 1. Continent in demand for African American music and musicians
  2. 5. The popular form of piano music in the late 19th and early 20th century, made widely popular by ex. Scott Joplin
  3. 9. Problematic shows that represented African Americans as caricatures and the source of pervasive negative stereotypes of African Americans; both Black and white performers had to perform in blackface
  4. 11. The social structure that made it difficult for Black and white musicians to perform and be recorded together
  5. 13. Popular dance in the 1910s
  6. 14. Title of the first recording of jazz, released in 1917
Down
  1. 2. An instrument that became common for many home parlors and small musical venues
  2. 3. Song thought to be the earliest example of jazz sheet music (1915)
  3. 4. An important African American composer and band leader who sought to reach a wide audience, sometimes called “the Father of the Blues”
  4. 6. Songs expressing a longing, loss, or desire
  5. 7. When first founded by African Americans in the late 19th century, what instrument usually accompanied the one singer
  6. 8. Another way of saying “blues” notes that aren’t in the standard scale
  7. 10. City that Jazz was founded in
  8. 12. Instrument, other than the piano or guitar, that can be used to accompany Blues singers