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Music Appreciation
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1. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
synthesizer
Paul Simon
nashville sound
2. 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
Clear channel
progressive country
gangsta rap
rap
3. 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.
Madonna
Willie Nelson
Run-D.M.C.
Janis Joplin
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
Patsy Cline
Run-D.M.C.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
The Ramones
5. 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.
N.W.A.
world music
disco
The Sex Pistols
6. 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.
Carlos Santana
analog recording
grunge rock
Michael Jackson
7. 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.
Nirvana
Aretha Franklin
pop rock
grunge rock
8. 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.
countrypolitan
MIDI
punk rock
Paul Simon
9. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
countrypolitan
reggae
Grandmaster Flash
heavy metal
10. 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.
nashville sound
Dolly Parton
alternative rock
rap
11. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
The Sex Pistols
breakdancing
grunge rock
hardcore
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).
funk music
Madonna
Def Jam
Willie Nelson
13. 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.
soft soul
M.C. Hammer
gangsta rap
Vanilla Ice
14. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
Dolly Parton
grunge rock
disco
15. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
James Brown
Grateful Dead
alternative music
sampling
16. 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
rap
world music
country pop
17. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
RIAA
house music
Beastie Boys
countrypolitan
18. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
funk music
rave
sampling
Tupac Shakur
19. 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
world music
N.W.A.
Napster
heavy metal
20. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Public Enemy
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
heavy metal
Bob Marley
21. 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
The Sex Pistols
hip-hop
disco
Grandmaster Flash
22. 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
Sonic Youth
The Ramones
Kurt Cobain
23. 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
Paul Simon
Carole King
RIAA
heavy metal
24. 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).
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
punk rock
alternative music
hardcore
25. 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.
breakdancing
Queen Latifah
Tupac Shakur
nashville sound
26. 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
Bob Marley
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Ray Charles
RIAA
27. 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
house music
psychedelic rock
soft soul
Kurt Cobain
28. 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
Kurt Cobain
heavy metal
Sonic Youth
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
MP3
progressive country
Vanilla Ice
Public Enemy
30. 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
alternative music
Vanilla Ice
Bruce Springsteen
progressive country
31. The leader of the Wailers and a national hero in his native Jamaica - Marley was reggae's most effective international ambassador. His songs of determination - rebellion - and faith - rooted in the Rastafarian belief system - found a worldwide audien
Lauryn Hill
Grandmaster Flash
Bob Marley
Tupac Shakur
32. 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.
world music
RIAA
disco
house music
33. 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
reggae
Prince
countrypolitan
psychedelic rock
34. 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
Nirvana
Clear channel
alternative music
sampling
35. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
MP3
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Paul Simon
Run-D.M.C.
36. 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.
Vanilla Ice
Carole King
Vanilla Ice
punk rock
37. 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
Ray Charles
reggae
Aretha Franklin
38. 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
The Sex Pistols
Michael Jackson
Carlos Santana
hardcore
39. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Madonna
Public Enemy
Willie Nelson
Grateful Dead
40. 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
Paul Simon
psychedelic rock
Bob Marley
Lauryn Hill
41. 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
Run-D.M.C.
house music
country pop
Peter Gabriel
42. 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
bluegrass
heavy metal
progressive country
Prince
43. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Public Enemy
breakdancing
Grandmaster Flash
Prince
44. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
David Bowie
N.W.A.
Grandmaster Flash
Jimi Hendrix
45. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
art rock
MIDI
techno
hardcore
46. 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
RIAA
country pop
Grandmaster Flash
47. 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.
Clear channel
Led Zeppelin
Bob Marley
The Ramones
48. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
Carlos Santana
MIDI
Janis Joplin
Prince
49. Gangsta rapper born in Long Beach - CA - He was a protaga of Andre 'Dr. Dre' Young and collaborated on Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic. Snoop's soft drawl and laid-back-but-lethal gangster persona were featured on Doggystyle - which debuted at the t
soft soul
soul music
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Willie Nelson
50. 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
Vanilla Ice
pop rock
psychedelic rock
disco
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