Important information for each song

  1. Great Speckled Bird
    • regional music
    • Northern/ Urban Migration (religious lyrics)
  2. Taking a chance on love
    • Dance craze
    • Music collaboration
    • Founding event of swing
  3. Mambo No. 5
    • Latin American Influence
    • Palladium Ballroom
    • Continued success of big bands into the 1940s
  4. Hound Dog
    • Rebranding of "race records"
    • Northern/ Urban Migration of African Americans
    • Cover versions
  5. Im so lonesome I could cry
    • Rebranding of "hillbilly music" 
    • Crossover success
    • Pedal steel guitar
    • Relevance of lyrics to performer
  6. Maybellene
    • Advent of rock 'n' roll
    • Post-WWII Am. Culture
    • Modes of transmission
    • Marketing music to teens
  7. Dont be cruel
    • Elvis's popularity
    • Reverb
    • Cover versions and Otis Blackwell
Author
GoBroncos
ID
362845
Card Set
Important information for each song
Description
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