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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Grateful Dead
psychedelic rock
Willie Nelson
alternative rock
2. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Dolly Parton
Willie Nelson
N.W.A.
Nirvana
3. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
reggae
Clear channel
techno
hip-hop
4. 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
soul music
Def Jam
Run-D.M.C.
Lauryn Hill
5. 'The Queen of Soul -' she began singing gospel music at an early age and had several hit records with Atlantic - including 'Respect' in 1967 and 'Think' in 1968.
Aretha Franklin
M.C. Hammer
Sonic Youth
sequencer
6. 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.
pop rock
Carole King
sampling
punk rock
7. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
gangsta rap
alternative rock
8. 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.
grunge rock
Dolly Parton
gangsta rap
MP3
9. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
nashville sound
MIDI
Kenny Rogers
soft soul
10. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
disco
rave
The Sex Pistols
gangsta rap
11. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Clear channel
Michael Jackson
Grateful Dead
alternative rock
12. Singer-songwriter Who wrote many hits in the 1960s with Gerry Goffin. In 1971 - the success of her album Tapestry made her a major recording star.
Madonna
Vanilla Ice
Ray Charles
Carole King
13. 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).
The Sex Pistols
David Bowie
Donna Summer
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
14. 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
Madonna
N.W.A.
Def Jam
world music
15. 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
Dolly Parton
Sonic Youth
Bruce Springsteen
16. 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
Paul Simon
countrypolitan
Carlos Santana
17. The norm since the introduction of recording in the nineteenth century. Transforms the energy of sound waves into physical imprints (as in pre-1925 acoustic recordings) or into electronic waveforms that closely follow (and can be used to reproduce) t
synthesizer
techno
analog recording
nashville sound
18. 'The Queen of Soul -' she began singing gospel music at an early age and had several hit records with Atlantic - including 'Respect' in 1967 and 'Think' in 1968.
Willie Nelson
Aretha Franklin
Dolly Parton
sequencer
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
RIAA
art rock
hip-hop
pop rock
20. 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.
Peter Gabriel
Nirvana
James Brown
art rock
21. 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
Janis Joplin
funk music
M.C. Hammer
Public Enemy
22. 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
countrypolitan
Led Zeppelin
Donna Summer
23. 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
disco
Peter Gabriel
soul music
urban folk
24. 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
Prince
Clear channel
Run-D.M.C.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
25. 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.
Paul Simon
Queen Latifah
hardcore
sequencer
26. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
hardcore
synthesizer
Clear channel
Grandmaster Flash
27. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Public Enemy
techno
nashville sound
N.W.A.
28. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
rap
Dolly Parton
sampling
MIDI
29. 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
Public Enemy
punk rock
Grateful Dead
gangsta rap
30. 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
Carole King
breakdancing
world music
31. 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.
sequencer
Led Zeppelin
house music
alternative rock
32. Variant of hip-hop music; its emergence was heralded nationwide by the release of the album Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude). It included artists such as Snoop Doggy Dogg - 2Pac Shakur - and the Notorious B.I.G.
Kenny Rogers
M.C. Hammer
Def Jam
gangsta rap
33. 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
hip-hop
alternative rock
Def Jam
Clear channel
34. 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
hardcore
Clear channel
Led Zeppelin
M.C. Hammer
35. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Vanilla Ice
synthesizer
Dolly Parton
James Brown
36. 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.
James Brown
Carlos Santana
world music
gangsta rap
37. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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38. 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
Clear channel
alternative music
Def Jam
Nirvana
39. 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)
Nirvana
Lauryn Hill
Kenny Rogers
40. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
techno
David Bowie
MP3
41. 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.
analog recording
Queen Latifah
Grateful Dead
Bruce Springsteen
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
alternative music
hip-hop
Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
43. The most outrageous—and therefore famous—punk band - formed in 1975 in London. They were the creation of Malcolm McAllen - owner of a London boutique called Sex - which specialized in leather and rubber clothing.
Willie Nelson
The Sex Pistols
M.C. Hammer
Grateful Dead
44. 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.
James Brown
alternative rock
alternative rock
rap
45. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
alternative rock
house music
progressive country
countrypolitan
46. 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
sequencer
progressive country
pop rock
house music
47. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
country pop
world music
The Ramones
Run-D.M.C.
48. 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.
Donna Summer
funk music
M.C. Hammer
art rock
49. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
pop rock
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Beastie Boys
soul music
50. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Jimi Hendrix
country pop
psychedelic rock
Led Zeppelin