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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
MIDI
N.W.A.
soft soul
Bob Marley
2. Got his start in the 1960s as a member of the famous folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel. His album Graceland (1986) was a global collaboration recorded in South Africa - England - and the United States. It is the album responsible - more than any othe
alternative rock
countrypolitan
Paul Simon
soft soul
3. 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
Donna Summer
hip-hop
progressive country
Tupac Shakur
4. 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
RIAA
house music
Vanilla Ice
hardcore
5. 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
Nirvana
heavy metal
Peter Gabriel
hip-hop
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.
world music
M.C. Hammer
Tupac Shakur
Def Jam
7. 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.
country pop
The Sex Pistols
MIDI
Dolly Parton
8. Born in Texas - Nelson was one of the most influential figures in the progressive country movement. Nelson's rise to national fame came in the mid-1970s - through his association with a group of musicians collectively known as 'the Outlaws.'
Jimi Hendrix
James Brown
Willie Nelson
rap
9. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Public Enemy
The Ramones
grunge rock
Nirvana
10. Born in Mexico - he began his musical career playing guitar in Tijuana. He formed his band in San Francisco in the late 1960s. Their 1971 album Abraxas established a Latin American substream within rock.
alternative music
Carlos Santana
psychedelic rock
hip-hop
11. Began his performing career as a member of the Jackson Five. He achieved unprecedented success with his 1982 album Thriller - and his elaborately produced music videos helped boost the new medium of music videos. Jackson became the first African Amer
N.W.A.
Run-D.M.C.
Michael Jackson
nashville sound
12. Extreme variation of punk - pioneered during the early 1980s by bands in San Francisco (the Dead Kennedys) and Los Angeles (the Germs - Black Flag - X - and the Circle Jerks).
sampling
Donna Summer
hardcore
Public Enemy
13. 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
Peter Gabriel
art rock
rap
Carlos Santana
14. Internet-based software program that enabled computer users to share and swap files - specifically music - through a centralized file server. A federal court injunction forced Napster to shut down operations in February 2001.
progressive country
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Paul Simon
Napster
15. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
country pop
alternative music
Grateful Dead
16. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
analog recording
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
techno
Dolly Parton
17. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Queen Latifah
hip-hop
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
breakdancing
18. Centered on the creation of a strong rhythmic momentum or groove - with the electric bass and bass drum often playing on all four main beats of the measure - the snare drum and other instruments playing equally strongly on the second and fourth beats
countrypolitan
funk music
disco
Grandmaster Flash
19. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
RIAA
heavy metal
Led Zeppelin
hardcore
20. 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.
Kenny Rogers
Donna Summer
country pop
grunge rock
21. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
Beastie Boys
Kenny Rogers
Led Zeppelin
22. The most successful white blues singer of the 1960s. Born in Port Arthur - Texas - Joplin came to San Francisco in the mid-1960s and joined a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Janis Joplin
Nirvana
Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
23. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
David Bowie
bluegrass
Grateful Dead
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
24. 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
Peter Gabriel
soft soul
Lauryn Hill
progressive country
25. 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
Paul Simon
M.C. Hammer
Vanilla Ice
Peter Gabriel
26. 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
Lauryn Hill
Led Zeppelin
RIAA
Led Zeppelin
27. 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.
hip-hop
psychedelic rock
pop rock
nashville sound
28. Born in the impoverished shantytowns of Kingston - Jamaica - reggae first became popular in the United States in 1973 - after the release of the Jamaican film The Harder They Come and its soundtrack album. The heart of reggae music consists of 'riddi
psychedelic rock
reggae
nashville sound
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
29. 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
Patsy Cline
progressive country
soft soul
30. One of the biggest stars to emerge from disco in the 1970s. She sang on several disco classics - including 'Love to Love You Baby' (1976) and 'Good Times' (1979).
Donna Summer
Paul Simon
Peter Gabriel
bluegrass
31. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Vanilla Ice
Bruce Springsteen
synthesizer
Run-D.M.C.
32. -one of the forerunners of the Grunge genre - originally part of the 'no wave' scene in NY -Many alternative bands such as Nirvana looked up to them -album 'Daydream Nation' was well-received by critics - and then they were signed to Geffen Records -
Peter Gabriel
Sonic Youth
hardcore
sequencer
33. Music played by San Francisco bands that encompassed a variety of styles and musical influences - including folk rock - blues - 'hard rock -' Latin music - and Indian classical music.
Carole King
soul music
David Bowie
psychedelic rock
34. 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.
punk rock
rap
reggae
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
35. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
analog recording
urban folk
David Bowie
Napster
36. 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
The Ramones
Def Jam
Jimi Hendrix
alternative music
37. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
Led Zeppelin
Kurt Cobain
MIDI
Lauryn Hill
38. Centered on the creation of a strong rhythmic momentum or groove - with the electric bass and bass drum often playing on all four main beats of the measure - the snare drum and other instruments playing equally strongly on the second and fourth beats
funk music
Queen Latifah
psychedelic rock
Dolly Parton
39. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
Donna Summer
art rock
Clear channel
bluegrass
40. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
funk music
nashville sound
Patsy Cline
synthesizer
41. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Napster
breakdancing
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
42. Hip-hop culture - forged by African American and Caribbean American youth in New York City - included distinctive styles of visual art (graffiti) - dance (an acrobatic solo style called breakdancing and an energetic couple dance called the freak) - m
countrypolitan
breakdancing
punk rock
hip-hop
43. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Sonic Youth
countrypolitan
Grandmaster Flash
disco
44. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
soul music
Paul Simon
disco
soft soul
45. 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
Bob Marley
Clear channel
MP3
Peter Gabriel
46. Hip-hop culture - forged by African American and Caribbean American youth in New York City - included distinctive styles of visual art (graffiti) - dance (an acrobatic solo style called breakdancing and an energetic couple dance called the freak) - m
Def Jam
Willie Nelson
Vanilla Ice
hip-hop
47. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
breakdancing
James Brown
pop rock
Public Enemy
48. From the late 1980s through the 1990s - Madonna's popularity was second only to Michael Jackson's. She created controversial songs and music videos - including 'Papa Don't Preach' (1986) - 'Express Yourself' (1989) - and 'Like a Prayer' (1989).
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
Sonic Youth
Kenny Rogers
49. 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.
rave
M.C. Hammer
Lauryn Hill
disco
50. Born in Texas - Nelson was one of the most influential figures in the progressive country movement. Nelson's rise to national fame came in the mid-1970s - through his association with a group of musicians collectively known as 'the Outlaws.'
MIDI
Willie Nelson
The Sex Pistols
Donna Summer
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