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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
The Ramones
M.C. Hammer
The Sex Pistols
2. 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.
art rock
pop rock
urban folk
grunge rock
3. 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.
Nirvana
heavy metal
The Sex Pistols
psychedelic rock
4. 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.
RIAA
Aretha Franklin
Kenny Rogers
Led Zeppelin
5. 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).
Grandmaster Flash
Madonna
MIDI
hardcore
6. 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.
analog recording
rap
Bruce Springsteen
breakdancing
7. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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8. 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
house music
Aretha Franklin
breakdancing
Peter Gabriel
9. 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.
soul music
Janis Joplin
heavy metal
Grateful Dead
10. Style of folk music that grew in popularity in the burgeoning New York folk scene during the 1960s. It included artists such as Bob Dylan.
urban folk
Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Springsteen
Prince
11. Singer and guitarist who founded the alternative rock band Nirvana. His recordings broke through to the commercial mainstream and popularized grunge rock. He shot himself in Seattle in 1994.
N.W.A.
Kurt Cobain
funk music
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
12. 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).
alternative music
reggae
funk music
Madonna
13. 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.
art rock
nashville sound
Napster
Willie Nelson
14. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
Michael Jackson
Tupac Shakur
psychedelic rock
15. 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.
house music
Bruce Springsteen
Donna Summer
RIAA
16. 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
soft soul
country pop
progressive country
breakdancing
17. 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.
sequencer
pop rock
punk rock
Prince
18. 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.
hardcore
art rock
Willie Nelson
bluegrass
19. The first commercially successful white act in hip-hop. Their early recordings represent a fusion of the youth-oriented rebelliousness of hardcore punk rock—the style they began playing in 1981—with the sensibility and techniques of hip-hop.
Beastie Boys
Public Enemy
grunge rock
hip-hop
20. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
analog recording
gangsta rap
Bob Marley
21. 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.
Paul Simon
world music
disco
The Sex Pistols
22. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
alternative music
James Brown
Patsy Cline
art rock
23. 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
Napster
gangsta rap
David Bowie
24. 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.
urban folk
hardcore
James Brown
alternative music
25. 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).
hip-hop
Donna Summer
techno
grunge rock
26. 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.
sampling
gangsta rap
rave
M.C. Hammer
27. 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
synthesizer
pop rock
hip-hop
MIDI
28. 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.
MIDI
world music
The Sex Pistols
alternative rock
29. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
hardcore
soul music
MP3
RIAA
30. 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.'
Willie Nelson
The Ramones
Clear channel
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
31. 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
rap
countrypolitan
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
32. 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
house music
hip-hop
pop rock
Peter Gabriel
33. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Janis Joplin
MP3
MIDI
breakdancing
34. 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.
rap
Beastie Boys
Dolly Parton
Kenny Rogers
35. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Aretha Franklin
Jimi Hendrix
bluegrass
RIAA
36. 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.
Grateful Dead
M.C. Hammer
progressive country
Tupac Shakur
37. 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.
Kenny Rogers
The Ramones
N.W.A.
M.C. Hammer
38. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Sonic Youth
Beastie Boys
Grandmaster Flash
Tupac Shakur
39. 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.
Madonna
Led Zeppelin
nashville sound
world music
40. 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.
rave
Carole King
Lauryn Hill
Tupac Shakur
41. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grandmaster Flash
countrypolitan
The Ramones
country pop
42. 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).
Kurt Cobain
soft soul
hardcore
Def Jam
43. 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.
house music
M.C. Hammer
Carlos Santana
synthesizer
44. 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
N.W.A.
breakdancing
Paul Simon
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
45. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
heavy metal
soft soul
Jimi Hendrix
Run-D.M.C.
46. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
Dolly Parton
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley
47. The first commercially successful white act in hip-hop. Their early recordings represent a fusion of the youth-oriented rebelliousness of hardcore punk rock—the style they began playing in 1981—with the sensibility and techniques of hip-hop.
Lauryn Hill
breakdancing
Beastie Boys
reggae
48. '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.
funk music
Aretha Franklin
Jimi Hendrix
art rock
49. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
alternative rock
punk rock
Public Enemy
world music
50. 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
alternative music
Willie Nelson
analog recording
James Brown