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Music Appreciation
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performing-arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. '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.
Run-D.M.C.
Bruce Springsteen
analog recording
Aretha Franklin
2. 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
Donna Summer
analog recording
Led Zeppelin
Michael Jackson
3. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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4. 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
alternative rock
Def Jam
urban folk
progressive country
5. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
progressive country
synthesizer
Grandmaster Flash
N.W.A.
6. 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
RIAA
The Ramones
Michael Jackson
Kurt Cobain
7. 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.
Def Jam
house music
soul music
Led Zeppelin
8. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Carole King
Kenny Rogers
pop rock
countrypolitan
9. 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.
heavy metal
Run-D.M.C.
Prince
sampling
10. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Queen Latifah
Grandmaster Flash
country pop
11. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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12. 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.
The Sex Pistols
psychedelic rock
Patsy Cline
progressive country
13. 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
Public Enemy
Carole King
analog recording
14. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Nirvana
Jimi Hendrix
Carole King
synthesizer
15. 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
reggae
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Nirvana
alternative rock
16. 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
sequencer
Paul Simon
hardcore
alternative music
17. 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
Led Zeppelin
MP3
nashville sound
Peter Gabriel
18. 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.
nashville sound
Napster
Donna Summer
Aretha Franklin
19. '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.
Dolly Parton
soul music
Aretha Franklin
pop rock
20. 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
M.C. Hammer
house music
Aretha Franklin
alternative music
21. 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.
Public Enemy
synthesizer
house music
art rock
22. 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.
Napster
Grandmaster Flash
sampling
sequencer
23. 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
funk music
Grateful Dead
Carlos Santana
Run-D.M.C.
24. Singer and guitarist who founded the alternative rock band Nirvana. His recordings broke through to the commercial mainstream and popularized grunge rock. He shot himself in Seattle in 1994.
Peter Gabriel
David Bowie
Kurt Cobain
grunge rock
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.
RIAA
Carlos Santana
rap
Jimi Hendrix
26. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
David Bowie
Bob Marley
disco
27. 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
RIAA
Sonic Youth
bluegrass
Grandmaster Flash
28. 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.
Tupac Shakur
psychedelic rock
N.W.A.
art rock
29. 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
Prince
Grandmaster Flash
analog recording
Willie Nelson
30. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Queen Latifah
Public Enemy
Jimi Hendrix
Ray Charles
31. 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.
Peter Gabriel
Kurt Cobain
urban folk
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
32. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
alternative music
Donna Summer
Sonic Youth
soft soul
33. 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.
hip-hop
Grateful Dead
gangsta rap
disco
34. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
reggae
Donna Summer
soul music
MP3
35. 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
Def Jam
reggae
Carlos Santana
Madonna
36. 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
urban folk
Led Zeppelin
Michael Jackson
reggae
37. 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.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Janis Joplin
nashville sound
Ray Charles
38. 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
art rock
Run-D.M.C.
RIAA
Bob Marley
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.
Paul Simon
nashville sound
synthesizer
Carlos Santana
40. 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.
Paul Simon
Lauryn Hill
Janis Joplin
soul music
41. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
heavy metal
sequencer
Bob Marley
The Ramones
42. 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
M.C. Hammer
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
heavy metal
The Ramones
43. 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.
Willie Nelson
gangsta rap
Donna Summer
Napster
44. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
techno
rap
country pop
Carlos Santana
45. 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
rap
pop rock
grunge rock
46. 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).
bluegrass
Donna Summer
art rock
hardcore
47. 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).
Queen Latifah
Bob Marley
psychedelic rock
Madonna
48. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Carole King
progressive country
M.C. Hammer
Ray Charles
49. 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.
Dolly Parton
Prince
Willie Nelson
RIAA
50. 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).
hardcore
progressive country
Grandmaster Flash
Bob Marley