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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
Paul Simon
funk music
Carole King
N.W.A.
2. 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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
nashville sound
alternative music
house music
3. 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.
sampling
Nirvana
Patsy Cline
Aretha Franklin
4. 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
Run-D.M.C.
progressive country
house music
Sonic Youth
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
Vanilla Ice
Janis Joplin
Ray Charles
Peter Gabriel
6. 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.
Run-D.M.C.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
nashville sound
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
7. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Kurt Cobain
Def Jam
Bruce Springsteen
countrypolitan
8. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
psychedelic rock
house music
alternative rock
pop rock
9. 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.
psychedelic rock
Run-D.M.C.
Lauryn Hill
Def Jam
10. 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
MIDI
Prince
reggae
MP3
11. 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.
sampling
Dolly Parton
reggae
hardcore
12. 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
Paul Simon
hip-hop
disco
sequencer
13. 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
The Ramones
heavy metal
Madonna
14. 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
alternative rock
punk rock
Lauryn Hill
Dolly Parton
15. 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
RIAA
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Janis Joplin
breakdancing
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.
Aretha Franklin
sampling
synthesizer
alternative rock
17. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Def Jam
Donna Summer
Dolly Parton
David Bowie
18. 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.
pop rock
Nirvana
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
19. 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.
Beastie Boys
heavy metal
world music
gangsta rap
20. 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).
techno
David Bowie
Donna Summer
Aretha Franklin
21. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
grunge rock
Grandmaster Flash
Aretha Franklin
Paul Simon
22. 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 Sex Pistols
bluegrass
Kenny Rogers
The Ramones
23. 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.
Public Enemy
urban folk
Paul Simon
world music
24. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Bob Marley
Clear channel
pop rock
25. 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.
Queen Latifah
hip-hop
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Bruce Springsteen
26. 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.
Nirvana
rap
Bruce Springsteen
Tupac Shakur
27. 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
Vanilla Ice
art rock
soul music
28. 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
reggae
Clear channel
Paul Simon
Public Enemy
29. 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.
Napster
grunge rock
progressive country
art rock
30. 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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
RIAA
Led Zeppelin
31. 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
country pop
Def Jam
Madonna
Dolly Parton
32. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Lauryn Hill
nashville sound
Run-D.M.C.
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
MIDI
hip-hop
alternative music
Prince
34. 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
Peter Gabriel
N.W.A.
Carole King
Def Jam
35. 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
RIAA
Patsy Cline
Janis Joplin
Paul Simon
36. -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 -
N.W.A.
Willie Nelson
Sonic Youth
synthesizer
37. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
pop rock
Jimi Hendrix
house music
Grateful Dead
38. 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
progressive country
Prince
RIAA
Run-D.M.C.
39. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
Patsy Cline
Kenny Rogers
psychedelic rock
40. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Led Zeppelin
Grandmaster Flash
Willie Nelson
James Brown
41. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
countrypolitan
heavy metal
Ray Charles
MP3
42. 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.'
hip-hop
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
soft soul
Willie Nelson
43. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
M.C. Hammer
Napster
techno
Ray Charles
44. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
heavy metal
techno
rave
Lauryn Hill
45. 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.
RIAA
grunge rock
sequencer
rave
46. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Beastie Boys
David Bowie
alternative music
Prince
47. 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
Kenny Rogers
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
N.W.A.
48. 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).
Madonna
hardcore
David Bowie
Willie Nelson
49. 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
progressive country
pop rock
alternative rock
Peter Gabriel
50. 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
Run-D.M.C.
The Sex Pistols
house music
hip-hop