Roots of R&B Vocab 1

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Across
  1. 3. A genre of music that influences Modern Day R&B (blues becomes a subgenre of this brass/saxophone heavy music genre)
  2. 5. a POC vocal performance group that first popularized gospel music
  3. 6. One of the four iconic music industry cities, located in Louisianna
  4. 8. songs Rhythmically driven songs to be sung to pass the long hours of strenuous manual labor
  5. 9. One of the four iconic music industry cities, this one is in California
  6. 11. and Response leader sings a melody which is then repeated or responded to by a group
Down
  1. 1. A solo work song melodic call about the singer's loneliness
  2. 2. country/folk religious poetry
  3. 3. one of the early composers of American traditional music
  4. 4. One of the four iconic music industry cities, located in Illinois
  5. 7. popularized versions of spirituals
  6. 10. Story telling ballads in country/folk music