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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Madonna
nashville sound
Ray Charles
RIAA
2. 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
Vanilla Ice
Bob Marley
N.W.A.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
3. 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).
Madonna
Janis Joplin
Ray Charles
Paul Simon
4. 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.
countrypolitan
hardcore
sampling
soft soul
5. 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
heavy metal
The Sex Pistols
alternative music
art rock
6. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Public Enemy
world music
MP3
alternative music
7. 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
Ray Charles
Beastie Boys
country pop
hip-hop
8. 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.
punk rock
soul music
house music
art rock
9. 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
N.W.A.
alternative rock
hip-hop
Janis Joplin
10. 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.
techno
Tupac Shakur
art rock
gangsta rap
11. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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12. 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.
Donna Summer
David Bowie
Kurt Cobain
breakdancing
13. 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
Run-D.M.C.
house music
David Bowie
M.C. Hammer
14. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Madonna
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
soul music
Jimi Hendrix
15. 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.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
gangsta rap
Michael Jackson
nashville sound
16. 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.
hardcore
Bruce Springsteen
The Sex Pistols
James Brown
17. 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
RIAA
Beastie Boys
Dolly Parton
18. 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
Bruce Springsteen
David Bowie
Run-D.M.C.
hardcore
19. 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.
nashville sound
grunge rock
rap
analog recording
20. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Sonic Youth
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
reggae
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.
gangsta rap
Carlos Santana
Bruce Springsteen
rave
22. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soft soul
Led Zeppelin
soul music
Peter Gabriel
23. 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.
Beastie Boys
rap
gangsta rap
Peter Gabriel
24. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
progressive country
Kurt Cobain
Grandmaster Flash
bluegrass
25. 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.
sampling
Nirvana
RIAA
Led Zeppelin
26. 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.
Patsy Cline
David Bowie
James Brown
Carlos Santana
27. 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
funk music
sequencer
soft soul
hardcore
28. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley
Tupac Shakur
Dolly Parton
29. 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.
Aretha Franklin
funk music
Run-D.M.C.
Dolly Parton
30. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
soft soul
psychedelic rock
analog recording
MP3
31. 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.
Kenny Rogers
MP3
Paul Simon
Dolly Parton
32. 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
funk music
Bob Marley
Led Zeppelin
Def Jam
33. 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
Public Enemy
Grateful Dead
heavy metal
RIAA
34. -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
Peter Gabriel
Paul Simon
Janis Joplin
35. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
punk rock
Carlos Santana
Napster
36. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Nirvana
hip-hop
sampling
Def Jam
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
heavy metal
house music
Kurt Cobain
art rock
38. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Grateful Dead
reggae
soft soul
world music
39. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
breakdancing
Ray Charles
Kurt Cobain
40. 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.
heavy metal
Queen Latifah
sequencer
Bob Marley
41. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
Patsy Cline
bluegrass
reggae
MP3
42. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
soul music
Bob Marley
pop rock
43. 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
Kurt Cobain
Lauryn Hill
reggae
urban folk
44. The first punk rock band. Formed in 1974 in New York City - the Ramones' high-speed - energetic - and extremely loud sound influenced English punk groups such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash and also became a blueprint for 1980s L.A. hardcore bands.
Peter Gabriel
The Ramones
reggae
Janis Joplin
45. 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.
Donna Summer
synthesizer
house music
grunge rock
46. 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.
disco
Prince
Aretha Franklin
reggae
47. 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
Michael Jackson
James Brown
Clear channel
Tupac Shakur
48. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
bluegrass
art rock
alternative rock
49. 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.
grunge rock
Vanilla Ice
Michael Jackson
urban folk
50. 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
country pop
Napster
Def Jam
MP3