MUSIC CROSSWORD

1. Tennessee city that is the Country Musical Capital of the World
3. This type of music originated in the 1970s when Sugarhill Gang looped a jazz beat.
4. Rap is poetic rhyming set to a heavy ___ beat.
6. the Queen of Country Music (2 words)
12. the British band viewed on The Ed Sullivan Show by a record 73 million people
15. briefly known as Makaveli, the best-selling music artist of all time, 75 million records worldwide (2 words)
16. the King of Country Music (2 words)
17. type of music that pulled from rhythm and blues, jazz, country, classical and gospel
18. Kentucky is the home of this type of music.
21. first rapper and hip hop DJ (2 words)
24. Rap dates back to West African ___ ___. (2 words)
26. combined elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues and jazz; influential in the Civil Rights Era
27. U.S. DJ that coined the term "rock and roll"
28. the Queen of Soul (2 words)

2. Some Negro spirituals may contain instructions on how to escape this.
5. form of singing used in the fields of plantations that allowed the slaves to complain (2 words)
7. King of Rock and Roll who brought this music to the mainstream
8. the instrument at the center of rock music
9. a form of vocal percussion
10. the King of Pop
11. a Czech form of music and dance, means "a Polish lady" (most likely Anna Slezakova)
13. originated during the Harlem Renaissance
14. West African singer who served as a historian and teacher
19. a musical genre with the cardinal trait of a syncopated or "ragged" rhythm
20. a smooth ballroom dance performed in triple time (1-2-3)
22. a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing (2 words)
23. where rock and roll originated
25. Country music has its roots in this traditional Scot/Irish/British music.