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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
Carole King
analog recording
Aretha Franklin
Lauryn Hill
2. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
art rock
Madonna
Aretha Franklin
bluegrass
3. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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4. 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
Sonic Youth
Vanilla Ice
Clear channel
5. 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.
psychedelic rock
Willie Nelson
Janis Joplin
Dolly Parton
6. 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
Carole King
Sonic Youth
Paul Simon
urban folk
7. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
techno
Kenny Rogers
punk rock
breakdancing
8. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
RIAA
rap
techno
9. 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.
Sonic Youth
Public Enemy
alternative rock
art rock
10. 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.
Kenny Rogers
bluegrass
gangsta rap
N.W.A.
11. 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
MIDI
heavy metal
Aretha Franklin
funk music
12. 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.
Michael Jackson
urban folk
Paul Simon
Kenny Rogers
13. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
hip-hop
Beastie Boys
Patsy Cline
house music
14. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Led Zeppelin
Kenny Rogers
heavy metal
15. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
progressive country
Run-D.M.C.
pop rock
gangsta rap
16. 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
Ray Charles
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Sonic Youth
17. 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
Dolly Parton
heavy metal
synthesizer
Clear channel
18. 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).
hip-hop
Queen Latifah
Ray Charles
Madonna
19. 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
RIAA
alternative music
Def Jam
20. 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
Vanilla Ice
Def Jam
Jimi Hendrix
soul music
21. 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.
disco
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Napster
Dolly Parton
22. 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
Grandmaster Flash
Public Enemy
bluegrass
N.W.A.
23. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
sequencer
progressive country
Patsy Cline
urban folk
24. 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 Ramones
Dolly Parton
Carlos Santana
25. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Beastie Boys
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
country pop
Ray Charles
26. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
Run-D.M.C.
rave
country pop
Ray Charles
27. 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
Tupac Shakur
Run-D.M.C.
M.C. Hammer
MP3
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
Lauryn Hill
country pop
rap
Def Jam
29. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Vanilla Ice
Donna Summer
Bruce Springsteen
30. 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.
Grateful Dead
Ray Charles
Def Jam
punk rock
31. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
RIAA
The Sex Pistols
MIDI
Grateful Dead
32. 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
Beastie Boys
Grandmaster Flash
N.W.A.
heavy metal
33. 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.
Aretha Franklin
MP3
The Sex Pistols
Clear channel
34. 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
Prince
MIDI
house music
Aretha Franklin
35. 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
Bob Marley
Michael Jackson
heavy metal
soul music
36. 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).
Aretha Franklin
Napster
Donna Summer
N.W.A.
37. 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
Jimi Hendrix
Vanilla Ice
N.W.A.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
38. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Vanilla Ice
analog recording
psychedelic rock
country pop
39. 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.
The Sex Pistols
progressive country
N.W.A.
Carlos Santana
40. 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.
Paul Simon
urban folk
sampling
M.C. Hammer
41. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Grandmaster Flash
synthesizer
Kurt Cobain
MP3
42. '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.
Sonic Youth
Aretha Franklin
Grandmaster Flash
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
43. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Led Zeppelin
Grandmaster Flash
44. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
alternative music
Clear channel
Tupac Shakur
countrypolitan
45. 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
psychedelic rock
Clear channel
Janis Joplin
46. 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).
world music
Nirvana
Madonna
Dolly Parton
47. 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
techno
Lauryn Hill
nashville sound
soul music
48. 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.
Tupac Shakur
Led Zeppelin
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
49. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Bob Marley
urban folk
alternative music
synthesizer
50. 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
soul music
house music
David Bowie
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