Question
Answer the following about the influence of jazz music on the civil rights movement, for 10 points each.
[10m] This song is said to have help start the civil rights movement with its lyrics referencing victims of lynchings. Billie Holiday sang about the title object “hanging from the poplar trees” in this song.
ANSWER: “Strange Fruit”
[10h] This bebop drummer released the album We Insist! in support of the civil rights movement. This founder of M’Boom played with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool and Sonny Rollins on Saxophone Colossus.
ANSWER: Max Roach [or Maxwell Lemuel Roach]
[10e] This saxophonist recorded the song “Alabama” in response to the 16th St. Baptist Church bombing. His albums include Giant Steps and A Love Supreme.
ANSWER: John Coltrane [or John William Coltrane]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 67% | 67% | 17% |
Data
| Fordham | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh | NYU A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| University of Delaware A | NYU C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rowan | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Swarthmore A | Penn | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Swarthmore B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |