James Reese Europe - 2024 ARCADIA

Question

The Clef Club, an all-Black orchestra organized by this bandleader, organized several sold-out ragtime concerts at Carnegie Hall more than two decades before Benny Goodman. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this bandleader and member of the Harlem Hellfighters in World War I. His military band’s performances of songs like “Castle House Rag” helped popularize ragtime and early jazz in France.

ANSWER: James Reese Europe

[10m] A signature song of the Harlem Hellfighters was a 1912 rag titled for this city’s “Blues,” composed by W.C. Handy. Many Delta blues musicians gained fame from performing at clubs on Beale Street in this city.

ANSWER: Memphis, Tennessee

[10e] According to Handy, Europe’s slow, swingy renditions of “Memphis Blues” inspired Vernon and Irene Castle to invent this dance. This waltz-like dance denotes “F” in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

ANSWER: foxtrot

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Summary


2024 ARCADIA at BU	2024-12-06	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Duke	2024-12-06	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA Online	2025-05-17	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Penn State	2024-12-06	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech	2024-12-06	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	2024-12-06	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo	2024-11-09	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at GT	2024-12-06	Y	4	17.50	100%	75%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois	2024-11-09	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Warwick	2024-12-06	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at Claremont	2024-11-02	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Boston College A	Brandeis B	0	10	10
MIT	Harvard	10	10	20
Tufts A	Brandeis A	10	10	20
Tufts B	Bowdoin A	0	10	10
Amherst	Yale	0	10	10
Virginia Tech C	North Carolina A	10	10	20
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	0	10	10
Squidward Community College	Missouri	10	10	20
Truman	WashU	10	10	20
South Carolina	Virginia Tech B	0	10	10
ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline	In the Mood for Buzz	0	10	10
Madmen and Specialists	The cult of SGA	10	10	20
Old and Young	she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique	10	10	20
bingy academy	Paddington in Peru (2024)	0	10	10
Penn State	Maryland	10	10	20
Pitt	RIT	0	10	10
Florida Tech	UCF B	0	10	10
UCF A	UF B	0	10	10
UF A	UF C	0	10	10
Valencia	USF	0	0	0
Berkeley B	Berkeley A	10	10	20
Berkeley Past	Stanford	10	10	20
Carleton A	Toronto Metropolitan A	10	10	20
Toronto A	Waterloo Basic	10	10	20
Toronto B	Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom	10	10	20
McGill A	Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha	10	10	20
Toronto Disband the Club 2k24	Waterloo Aspidistra	0	10	10
Waterloo Cloze	McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii	0	10	10
Georgia Tech B	Innovation Academy B	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	20
Lambert	Innovation Academy A	10	10	20
Milton	Mississippi State	10	10	20
Chicago A	Illinois Orange	10	10	20
Notre Dame	Illinois Blue	0	10	10
Purdue A	Purdue B	0	0	0
SIUE	Chicago B	0	10	10
Imperial A	Imperial B	0	10	10
Bristol	LSE A	0	10	10
LSE B	Southampton	10	10	20
Cambridge B	Warwick B	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick C	10	10	20
ALCU	Jason et al.	0	10	10
U[C]SD	Anderson et al.	0	10	10
SGV Ventures	Claremont	0	10	10