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Music Appreciation
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1. 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.
Kenny Rogers
nashville sound
analog recording
Janis Joplin
2. 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
Grateful Dead
world music
Beastie Boys
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
3. 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.
urban folk
gangsta rap
synthesizer
Carole King
4. 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
Led Zeppelin
M.C. Hammer
techno
5. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
breakdancing
alternative music
Tupac Shakur
Beastie Boys
6. 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
Ray Charles
Lauryn Hill
Sonic Youth
funk music
7. 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.
Janis Joplin
soul music
The Sex Pistols
art rock
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.
Ray Charles
Bob Marley
alternative rock
Queen Latifah
9. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
Willie Nelson
Kenny Rogers
urban folk
10. 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.
Prince
soft soul
Grateful Dead
grunge rock
11. 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
Beastie Boys
soft soul
Willie Nelson
12. 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
progressive country
Kurt Cobain
Public Enemy
The Sex Pistols
13. 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
Tupac Shakur
Paul Simon
world music
Kenny Rogers
14. 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
M.C. Hammer
bluegrass
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
analog recording
15. 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
M.C. Hammer
hip-hop
Kenny Rogers
Dolly Parton
16. 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
disco
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Vanilla Ice
The Ramones
17. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
Willie Nelson
David Bowie
Clear channel
18. 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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Lauryn Hill
Vanilla Ice
hardcore
19. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
grunge rock
techno
Ray Charles
world music
20. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
techno
urban folk
progressive country
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.
art rock
disco
Kurt Cobain
M.C. Hammer
22. 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
M.C. Hammer
Led Zeppelin
Beastie Boys
Prince
23. 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
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
urban folk
RIAA
rave
24. 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
Grateful Dead
alternative music
RIAA
Def Jam
25. 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.
N.W.A.
Ray Charles
Public Enemy
psychedelic rock
26. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
breakdancing
Led Zeppelin
Aretha Franklin
Michael Jackson
27. 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.
rap
funk music
Kurt Cobain
analog recording
28. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
punk rock
analog recording
Jimi Hendrix
Prince
29. 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
Beastie Boys
Tupac Shakur
Def Jam
Clear channel
30. 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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
art rock
Grateful Dead
Public Enemy
31. 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).
Donna Summer
Janis Joplin
heavy metal
Ray Charles
32. 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.
psychedelic rock
Prince
Janis Joplin
pop rock
33. 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.'
techno
Willie Nelson
Michael Jackson
Napster
34. 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.
heavy metal
Kurt Cobain
Lauryn Hill
Bruce Springsteen
35. 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
soul music
Def Jam
Bob Marley
hip-hop
36. 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.
country pop
soul music
Queen Latifah
Paul Simon
37. 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
Bob Marley
house music
country pop
M.C. Hammer
38. 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
N.W.A.
Donna Summer
N.W.A.
Def Jam
39. 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
nashville sound
Carole King
Beastie Boys
Prince
40. 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.
disco
MP3
Napster
Kurt Cobain
41. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Bob Marley
countrypolitan
nashville sound
soft soul
42. 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.
rave
house music
James Brown
Michael Jackson
43. 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.
Paul Simon
nashville sound
synthesizer
punk rock
44. 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
Sonic Youth
hip-hop
Kenny Rogers
progressive country
45. 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.
soft soul
hardcore
punk rock
alternative music
46. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Aretha Franklin
Led Zeppelin
Donna Summer
heavy metal
47. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
alternative music
MP3
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Ray Charles
48. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
MP3
Willie Nelson
49. 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.
disco
alternative music
Beastie Boys
Public Enemy
50. 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.
hardcore
rap
funk music
Donna Summer
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