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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
analog recording
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
sequencer
Tupac Shakur
2. 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
rap
Run-D.M.C.
disco
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
3. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
soul music
country pop
gangsta rap
soft soul
4. 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).
Patsy Cline
hardcore
sequencer
synthesizer
5. 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).
M.C. Hammer
Prince
hardcore
synthesizer
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).
urban folk
Madonna
Public Enemy
psychedelic rock
7. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
M.C. Hammer
breakdancing
gangsta rap
Queen Latifah
8. 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.
pop rock
alternative rock
art rock
rave
9. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
progressive country
pop rock
synthesizer
Jimi Hendrix
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
Vanilla Ice
Peter Gabriel
reggae
MP3
11. 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
RIAA
Nirvana
synthesizer
house music
12. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Madonna
Patsy Cline
urban folk
pop rock
13. 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
Prince
Nirvana
breakdancing
Peter Gabriel
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.
soul music
Led Zeppelin
Sonic Youth
M.C. Hammer
15. 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
N.W.A.
punk rock
alternative music
Clear channel
16. 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
MP3
heavy metal
alternative rock
17. -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 -
Vanilla Ice
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Sonic Youth
synthesizer
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
countrypolitan
soft soul
Paul Simon
funk music
19. 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
analog recording
The Ramones
sampling
20. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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21. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Grandmaster Flash
Prince
reggae
country pop
22. 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.
N.W.A.
rap
house music
Public Enemy
23. 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.
Led Zeppelin
Queen Latifah
punk rock
Tupac Shakur
24. 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
Carlos Santana
Clear channel
progressive country
Michael Jackson
25. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
Bob Marley
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
rave
Ray Charles
26. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
synthesizer
sampling
bluegrass
Queen Latifah
27. 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.
countrypolitan
Dolly Parton
Jimi Hendrix
MIDI
28. 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.
Madonna
RIAA
James Brown
Sonic Youth
29. 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.
alternative music
psychedelic rock
RIAA
disco
30. 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.
progressive country
Dolly Parton
David Bowie
RIAA
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
Prince
sampling
Bob Marley
32. '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
funk music
breakdancing
countrypolitan
33. 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
Def Jam
breakdancing
Ray Charles
hip-hop
34. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin
Nirvana
Kenny Rogers
35. 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
bluegrass
punk rock
Janis Joplin
36. 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
MP3
reggae
Queen Latifah
Prince
37. 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.'
Janis Joplin
Willie Nelson
psychedelic rock
Napster
38. 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
gangsta rap
nashville sound
Peter Gabriel
RIAA
39. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
gangsta rap
alternative rock
M.C. Hammer
40. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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41. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Ray Charles
Vanilla Ice
MP3
Aretha Franklin
42. 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)
Vanilla Ice
Dolly Parton
progressive country
43. 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.
world music
art rock
Peter Gabriel
James Brown
44. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
Janis Joplin
sampling
Lauryn Hill
45. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
gangsta rap
rap
soul music
Beastie Boys
46. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
soft soul
Led Zeppelin
countrypolitan
sampling
47. 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
rap
alternative music
Tupac Shakur
sequencer
48. 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
Peter Gabriel
The Ramones
Grateful Dead
heavy metal
49. 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
Grandmaster Flash
Bob Marley
Ray Charles
funk music
50. 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.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Queen Latifah
techno
house music