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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
rave
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Lauryn Hill
gangsta rap
2. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
Beastie Boys
sampling
3. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Aretha Franklin
4. 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.
grunge rock
techno
Dolly Parton
urban folk
5. 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
grunge rock
sequencer
Sonic Youth
6. 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).
heavy metal
pop rock
Madonna
Prince
7. 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.
techno
Led Zeppelin
Public Enemy
Carlos Santana
8. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grandmaster Flash
The Ramones
progressive country
Carlos Santana
9. 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
synthesizer
hip-hop
Vanilla Ice
Run-D.M.C.
10. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
rave
Grandmaster Flash
soft soul
Public Enemy
11. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
rap
MP3
house music
12. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Nirvana
Kenny Rogers
hip-hop
Lauryn Hill
13. 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.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
The Ramones
Beastie Boys
urban folk
14. 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.
art rock
Kenny Rogers
Grandmaster Flash
Led Zeppelin
15. 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
Def Jam
Willie Nelson
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
16. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
Bruce Springsteen
punk rock
Queen Latifah
17. Named after the Warehouse - a popular gay dance club in Chicago - it was a style of techno dance music. Many house recordings were purely instrumental - with elements of European synth-pop - Latin soul - reggae - rap - and jazz grafted over an insist
art rock
house music
countrypolitan
Grateful Dead
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
funk music
Bruce Springsteen
urban folk
bluegrass
19. Named after the Warehouse - a popular gay dance club in Chicago - it was a style of techno dance music. Many house recordings were purely instrumental - with elements of European synth-pop - Latin soul - reggae - rap - and jazz grafted over an insist
Clear channel
psychedelic rock
techno
house music
20. 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.
Ray Charles
Dolly Parton
sampling
gangsta rap
21. '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.
Carole King
Willie Nelson
Nirvana
Aretha Franklin
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.
Grandmaster Flash
N.W.A.
Janis Joplin
hardcore
23. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
urban folk
Run-D.M.C.
pop rock
Patsy Cline
24. 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.
Peter Gabriel
alternative rock
psychedelic rock
Sonic Youth
25. 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
The Ramones
Madonna
James Brown
analog recording
26. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Donna Summer
sampling
M.C. Hammer
soul music
27. 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.
Dolly Parton
Beastie Boys
N.W.A.
disco
28. 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
techno
Def Jam
The Sex Pistols
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
29. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Napster
breakdancing
N.W.A.
Grateful Dead
30. Regional style of alternative rock from Seattle that blended heavy metal guitar textures with hardcore punk. Bands from Seattle included Green River - Mudhoney - Pearl Jam - Nirvana - and Soundgarden.
heavy metal
Aretha Franklin
grunge rock
world music
31. 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
N.W.A.
MIDI
house music
sequencer
32. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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33. 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
synthesizer
Grandmaster Flash
reggae
34. 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.
Prince
Carlos Santana
Madonna
Carole King
35. -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 -
breakdancing
sampling
Sonic Youth
The Sex Pistols
36. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
hardcore
progressive country
techno
rave
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.
pop rock
N.W.A.
sequencer
M.C. Hammer
38. 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.
The Ramones
Patsy Cline
Willie Nelson
heavy metal
39. 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.
punk rock
Lauryn Hill
Dolly Parton
N.W.A.
40. 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
N.W.A.
David Bowie
RIAA
Peter Gabriel
41. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Aretha Franklin
Grateful Dead
funk music
pop rock
42. 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.
N.W.A.
sampling
disco
Napster
43. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Kurt Cobain
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Patsy Cline
Led Zeppelin
44. 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.
Carole King
house music
MP3
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
45. 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
psychedelic rock
gangsta rap
Led Zeppelin
46. 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.
The Ramones
countrypolitan
Michael Jackson
The Sex Pistols
47. 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.
pop rock
Jimi Hendrix
sequencer
gangsta rap
48. 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.
house music
Madonna
Beastie Boys
M.C. Hammer
49. 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.
hardcore
reggae
Kenny Rogers
David Bowie
50. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
urban folk
bluegrass
alternative rock
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)