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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Trio consisting of the MCs Run (Joseph Simmons - b. 1964) and D.M.C. (Darryl McDaniels - b. 1964) - and the DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell - b. 1965). Perhaps the most influential act in the history of rap music - they established a hard-edged - roc
Run-D.M.C.
Donna Summer
techno
Dolly Parton
2. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
hip-hop
Public Enemy
Beastie Boys
David Bowie
3. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
nashville sound
alternative rock
sequencer
reggae
4. Tragic victim of conflicts between East and West Coast factions within the hip-hop business. He was an up-and-coming star with Los Angeles-based Death Row Records when He was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996.
The Ramones
Tupac Shakur
hardcore
progressive country
5. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
gangsta rap
soul music
bluegrass
Run-D.M.C.
6. Tragic victim of conflicts between East and West Coast factions within the hip-hop business. He was an up-and-coming star with Los Angeles-based Death Row Records when He was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996.
Queen Latifah
rave
Tupac Shakur
Run-D.M.C.
7. Form of rock music that blended elements of rock and European classical music. It included bands such as King Crimson; Emerson - Lake - and Palmer; and Pink Floyd.
Prince
Public Enemy
art rock
nashville sound
8. Marketing category that emerged around 1990; it is most often used to describe bands like are.E.M. - Sonic Youth - the Dead Kennedys - and Nirvana.
alternative rock
Led Zeppelin
Carlos Santana
N.W.A.
9. Rapper from Oakland - California; hit the charts in 1990 with Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em - which held the Number One position for twenty-one weeks and sold over ten million copies - becoming the bestselling rap album of all time.
disco
Peter Gabriel
M.C. Hammer
Dolly Parton
10. Device that records musical data rather than musical sound and enables the creation of repeated sound sequences (loops) - the manipulation of rhythmic grooves - and the transmission of recorded data from one program or device to another.
sampling
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
sequencer
nashville sound
11. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
James Brown
nashville sound
James Brown
Napster
12. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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13. Hip-hop artist whose work is a self-conscious alternative to the violence and sexism in the work of rap stars such as Dr. Dre - the Notorious B.I.G. - and 2Pac Shakur. Her commitment to female empowerment builds on the ground-breaking example of Quee
Lauryn Hill
Janis Joplin
Grandmaster Flash
Nirvana
14. Prince is one of the most talented musicians ever to achieve mass commercial success in the field of popular music. He has sold almost forty million recordings. Between 1982 and 1992 - he placed nine albums in the Top 10 - reaching the top of the cha
Bob Marley
Run-D.M.C.
Prince
country pop
15. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
sequencer
MIDI
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline
16. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
The Ramones
hip-hop
Nirvana
pop rock
17. Veteran of folk pop groups such as the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition - star of made-for-TV movies. One of the main beneficiaries of country pop's increasing mainstream appeal.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Ray Charles
Kenny Rogers
David Bowie
18. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Jimi Hendrix
alternative rock
house music
Madonna
19. Trade association whose member companies—Universal - Sony - Warner Brothers - Arista - Atlantic - BMG - RCA - Capitol - Elektra - Interscope - and Sire Records—control the sale and distribution of approximately 90 percent of the offline music in the
Run-D.M.C.
reggae
Dolly Parton
RIAA
20. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
pop rock
Run-D.M.C.
Grandmaster Flash
soul music
21. A digital recording process wherein a sound source is recorded with a microphone - converted to a digital stream of binary numbers - and stored in a computer. The sampled sounds may be retrieved in a number of ways.
sampling
Bob Marley
David Bowie
Vanilla Ice
22. Form of rock music that blended elements of rock and European classical music. It included bands such as King Crimson; Emerson - Lake - and Palmer; and Pink Floyd.
James Brown
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Madonna
art rock
23. The most important woman in the history of hip-hop - in terms of both her commercial success and her effectiveness in establishing a feminist beachhead on the male-dominated field of rap music.
alternative rock
Queen Latifah
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Grateful Dead
24. Founded in 1982 - Public Enemy was organized around a core set of members who met as college students - drawn together by their interest in hip-hop culture and political activism. The group included the standard hip-hop configuration of two MCs—Chuck
sequencer
psychedelic rock
Public Enemy
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
25. Rock style that emerged in the late 1970s. It was a 'back to basics' rebellion against the perceived artifice and pretension of corporate rock music—a stripped-down and often purposefully 'nonmusical' version of rock music.
art rock
punk rock
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
rave
26. Springsteen's music and personal image evoked the rebellious rock 'n' rollers of the 1950s and the socially conscious folk rockers of the 1960s. His songs reflected his working-class origins and sympathies.
heavy metal
Willie Nelson
Bruce Springsteen
punk rock
27. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
Public Enemy
Def Jam
Carlos Santana
28. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Led Zeppelin
Tupac Shakur
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
29. The first punk rock band. Formed in 1974 in New York City - the Ramones' high-speed - energetic - and extremely loud sound influenced English punk groups such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash and also became a blueprint for 1980s L.A. hardcore bands.
pop rock
punk rock
Aretha Franklin
The Ramones
30. In progressive country - performers wrote songs that were more intellectual and liberal in outlook than their contemporaries and were more concerned with testing the limits of the country music tradition than with scoring hits. The key artists includ
progressive country
breakdancing
punk rock
nashville sound
31. Achieved celebrity as a member of the art rock group Genesis before embarking on a solo career. Gabriel's best-selling single 'Sledgehammer' became Number One pop and Number Sixty-one R&B in 1986. The award-winning video version of 'Sledgehammer' was
M.C. Hammer
Peter Gabriel
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Nirvana
32. Co-founded in 1984 by the hip-hop promoter Russell Simmons and the musician-producer Rick Rubin. During the 1980s - Def Jam cross-promoted a new generation of artists - expanding and diversifying the national audience for hip-hop - and in 1986 became
world music
Def Jam
Patsy Cline
sampling
33. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Clear channel
rap
Ray Charles
The Ramones
34. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
world music
techno
The Sex Pistols
Run-D.M.C.
35. Parton was born in the hill country of Tennessee and began her recording career at age eleven. She moved to Nashville in 1964 and built her career with regular appearances on country music radio and television.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Dolly Parton
sequencer
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
36. Ice's first album - To the Extreme (1990) - monopolized the Number One position for sixteen weeks in early 1991 - selling seven million copies. When it was discovered that Van Winkle - raised in reasonably comfortable circumstances in a middle-class
Grandmaster Flash
Bruce Springsteen
Vanilla Ice
RIAA
37. Parton was born in the hill country of Tennessee and began her recording career at age eleven. She moved to Nashville in 1964 and built her career with regular appearances on country music radio and television.
Dolly Parton
funk music
Ray Charles
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
38. Device that records musical data rather than musical sound and enables the creation of repeated sound sequences (loops) - the manipulation of rhythmic grooves - and the transmission of recorded data from one program or device to another.
Aretha Franklin
sequencer
synthesizer
Janis Joplin
39. Emerged during the 1970s as one part of the cultural complex of hip-hop. It consisted of rhymed speech accompanied by funk-derived rhythmic grooves.
RIAA
synthesizer
Vanilla Ice
rap
40. Pioneered West Coast gangsta rap with the release of the album Straight Outta Compton. Their recordings expressed the gangsta lifestyle - saturated with images of sex and violence. The nucleus of the group was formed in 1986 - when O'Shea ;Ice C
breakdancing
psychedelic rock
N.W.A.
nashville sound
41. Pioneered West Coast gangsta rap with the release of the album Straight Outta Compton. Their recordings expressed the gangsta lifestyle - saturated with images of sex and violence. The nucleus of the group was formed in 1986 - when O'Shea ;Ice C
Led Zeppelin
Michael Jackson
N.W.A.
Sonic Youth
42. Springsteen's music and personal image evoked the rebellious rock 'n' rollers of the 1950s and the socially conscious folk rockers of the 1960s. His songs reflected his working-class origins and sympathies.
Led Zeppelin
Kurt Cobain
Bruce Springsteen
hardcore
43. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
nashville sound
Queen Latifah
M.C. Hammer
44. The term 'alternative'—like the broadly equivalent terms 'underground' and 'independent'—is used across a wide range of popular genres - including rock - rap - adult contemporary - dance - folk - and country music. It is used to describe music that c
Michael Jackson
alternative music
reggae
Tupac Shakur
45. British hard rock band that formed in London in 1968. Zeppelin's sledgehammer style of guitar-focused rock music drew on various influences - including urban blues - San Francisco psychedelia - and the virtuoso guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix.
Led Zeppelin
alternative music
Madonna
Sonic Youth
46. Form of dance music popular in the late 1970s - characterized by elaborate studio production and an insistent beat: Donna Summer - Chic - the Village People - the Bee Gees.
funk music
Tupac Shakur
disco
hip-hop
47. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
soft soul
Clear channel
Tupac Shakur
rave
48. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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49. Publicly traded corporation that owns more than 1 -200 radio stations - 39 television stations - 100000 advertising billboards - and 100 live performance venues - ranging from huge amphitheaters to dance clubs - enabling them to present more than 70
Prince
nashville sound
Clear channel
Willie Nelson
50. The most influential and economically successful member of N.W.A. He founded an independent record label (Death Row/Interscope) - cultivated a number of younger rappers - and continued to develop a distinctive hip-hop production style - christened 'G
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
nashville sound
Bruce Springsteen
countrypolitan