Music Terms

2. Creating music without preparation
5. Huge annual pop music festival in Southern California
6. Loose and lively music style from the New Orleans Black community
8. American Singer-Songwriter known for his distinctive voice. He recently won the Nobel Prize in Literature
12. New York Street dancers often associated with hiphop
17. Spiritual music style originating from Southern Black church singers
20. American pop Singer-Songwriter popular with young American women for her meditative love songs
21. Fan of the Grateful Dead, many were part of the Hippie Movement
22. “The King” of Rock and Roll, lived at Graceland, TN

1. Popularity of British culture and bands that changed American music in the 1960s
3. American swing and jazz singer known as “Old Blue Eyes”
4. “Entertainment Capital of the World” in the Nevada desert that hosts many aging musicians
7. A Type of Country Music created by fiddle players in the Appalachian Mountains
9. American five-stringed instrument that‘s often in Country songs
10. The most important American music award ceremony
11. A thrilling, dance-centric type of music that was popular in New York clubs in the 1970s
13. Four-Stringed small instrument from the islands of Hawaii
14. West Coast Rap artist known for his poetic messages and laid-back beats
15. Renowned Street in NYC which hosts the musical theater district
16. A Black rhythm and blues pop music style from Detroit, MI
18. Home of the Grand Ole Opry, the most respected of Country venues
19. Now known as Rap, this beat-heavy, urban music of the 1990s is considered more “old school”