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Music Appreciation
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1. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
heavy metal
Grandmaster Flash
techno
Clear channel
2. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grandmaster Flash
art rock
gangsta rap
hip-hop
3. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
urban folk
sequencer
grunge rock
4. 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.
Nirvana
M.C. Hammer
Dolly Parton
alternative rock
5. 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
Run-D.M.C.
Clear channel
Madonna
Willie Nelson
6. '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.
Kenny Rogers
Bob Marley
Aretha Franklin
hardcore
7. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
soul music
heavy metal
Donna Summer
The Ramones
8. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
alternative rock
urban folk
Madonna
9. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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10. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
grunge rock
country pop
Donna Summer
11. 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.
The Sex Pistols
hardcore
gangsta rap
Grateful Dead
12. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
funk music
N.W.A.
rave
13. -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 -
Sonic Youth
hip-hop
Vanilla Ice
Nirvana
14. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
MP3
Patsy Cline
M.C. Hammer
rave
15. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
techno
pop rock
Peter Gabriel
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
Napster
Carole King
urban folk
alternative music
17. 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.
Ray Charles
Grateful Dead
Queen Latifah
Tupac Shakur
18. 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
The Sex Pistols
Jimi Hendrix
Vanilla Ice
Donna Summer
19. 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
Lauryn Hill
countrypolitan
sequencer
20. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Peter Gabriel
bluegrass
Queen Latifah
country pop
21. 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
synthesizer
Jimi Hendrix
Michael Jackson
Kurt Cobain
22. 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.
house music
Aretha Franklin
punk rock
23. 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
world music
Lauryn Hill
funk music
Sonic Youth
24. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Nirvana
Def Jam
Jimi Hendrix
reggae
25. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
Public Enemy
Bob Marley
grunge rock
26. 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
soft soul
Beastie Boys
rave
progressive country
27. 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.
James Brown
rap
Napster
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
28. 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
Lauryn Hill
grunge rock
punk rock
29. 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
gangsta rap
Public Enemy
progressive country
Queen Latifah
30. 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
soul music
Jimi Hendrix
Grateful Dead
reggae
31. 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
funk music
Bob Marley
countrypolitan
pop rock
32. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
David Bowie
punk rock
Jimi Hendrix
alternative rock
33. 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
alternative music
soft soul
Carlos Santana
Run-D.M.C.
34. 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.'
art rock
Willie Nelson
rave
Kurt Cobain
35. 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.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
disco
alternative rock
MIDI
36. 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
psychedelic rock
Clear channel
The Ramones
Vanilla Ice
37. 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
house music
N.W.A.
Grandmaster Flash
Grateful Dead
38. 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
Tupac Shakur
countrypolitan
reggae
funk music
39. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
breakdancing
countrypolitan
Michael Jackson
N.W.A.
40. 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
Sonic Youth
bluegrass
Prince
Public Enemy
41. Singer-songwriter Who wrote many hits in the 1960s with Gerry Goffin. In 1971 - the success of her album Tapestry made her a major recording star.
Carole King
Public Enemy
Napster
Vanilla Ice
42. 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
pop rock
Kenny Rogers
N.W.A.
43. 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
alternative rock
hip-hop
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
44. 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
M.C. Hammer
Ray Charles
Michael Jackson
45. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Tupac Shakur
Kurt Cobain
Sonic Youth
Grandmaster Flash
46. 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
David Bowie
reggae
analog recording
Kurt Cobain
47. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Jimi Hendrix
gangsta rap
Paul Simon
techno
48. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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49. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
James Brown
Tupac Shakur
gangsta rap
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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
house music
Kurt Cobain
Queen Latifah
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