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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
heavy metal
Run-D.M.C.
reggae
psychedelic rock
2. 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.
Vanilla Ice
disco
Madonna
world music
3. 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.
Paul Simon
sequencer
Led Zeppelin
Kurt Cobain
4. 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.
Public Enemy
RIAA
heavy metal
Carlos Santana
5. 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
soft soul
reggae
Prince
Vanilla Ice
6. 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
Willie Nelson
alternative music
hip-hop
Bob Marley
7. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
world music
Napster
Jimi Hendrix
soft soul
8. 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.
sequencer
Jimi Hendrix
Dolly Parton
rave
9. 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.
Public Enemy
nashville sound
countrypolitan
Bob Marley
10. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
Paul Simon
countrypolitan
Carole King
11. 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.
art rock
The Sex Pistols
Jimi Hendrix
MP3
12. 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
techno
hardcore
urban folk
13. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
hip-hop
Lauryn Hill
sequencer
MIDI
14. 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
Beastie Boys
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Carole King
15. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
David Bowie
MP3
Patsy Cline
Paul Simon
16. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
The Sex Pistols
Grandmaster Flash
gangsta rap
hip-hop
17. 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.
Carlos Santana
Madonna
James Brown
grunge rock
18. 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.
Kurt Cobain
Dolly Parton
funk music
gangsta rap
19. 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
Lauryn Hill
art rock
Run-D.M.C.
20. 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.
Prince
Beastie Boys
punk rock
grunge rock
21. 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.
Kenny Rogers
N.W.A.
Bruce Springsteen
Def Jam
22. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
Bob Marley
Beastie Boys
bluegrass
23. 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.
house music
nashville sound
Queen Latifah
sampling
24. 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).
bluegrass
Madonna
RIAA
Donna Summer
25. 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.
Donna Summer
Grateful Dead
bluegrass
rap
26. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Carole King
country pop
synthesizer
house music
27. 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.
Sonic Youth
heavy metal
M.C. Hammer
grunge rock
28. 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
funk music
Public Enemy
heavy metal
RIAA
29. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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30. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
RIAA
Beastie Boys
breakdancing
31. 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
Beastie Boys
synthesizer
Vanilla Ice
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
32. Tragic victim of conflicts between East and West Coast factions within the hip-hop business. He was an up-and-coming star with Los Angeles-based Death Row Records when He was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 1996.
synthesizer
country pop
Tupac Shakur
Queen Latifah
33. 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.
Prince
Public Enemy
techno
Queen Latifah
34. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
Lauryn Hill
hardcore
rave
funk music
35. 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
The Ramones
Napster
Beastie Boys
36. 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
breakdancing
Def Jam
sampling
37. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Carlos Santana
techno
reggae
synthesizer
38. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
techno
alternative rock
urban folk
countrypolitan
39. 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
Beastie Boys
nashville sound
RIAA
Queen Latifah
40. 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
N.W.A.
Nirvana
country pop
reggae
41. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Janis Joplin
Grandmaster Flash
Dolly Parton
Clear channel
42. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
Bruce Springsteen
rave
James Brown
hip-hop
43. 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
gangsta rap
Prince
Napster
44. 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.'
nashville sound
Madonna
grunge rock
Willie Nelson
45. 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
psychedelic rock
Run-D.M.C.
Aretha Franklin
46. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Nirvana
gangsta rap
world music
Peter Gabriel
47. 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
Michael Jackson
reggae
Kurt Cobain
Queen Latifah
48. 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
Janis Joplin
alternative music
world music
49. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
soul music
hardcore
pop rock
Janis Joplin
50. 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
breakdancing
Prince
Peter Gabriel
David Bowie
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