Across
- 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)
Down
- 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.