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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. 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.
Tupac Shakur
rave
countrypolitan
Bruce Springsteen
2. 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).
Tupac Shakur
Aretha Franklin
hardcore
disco
3. Gangsta rapper born in Long Beach - CA - He was a protaga of Andre 'Dr. Dre' Young and collaborated on Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic. Snoop's soft drawl and laid-back-but-lethal gangster persona were featured on Doggystyle - which debuted at the t
reggae
Jimi Hendrix
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
4. 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
gangsta rap
punk rock
RIAA
5. '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.
Aretha Franklin
hip-hop
heavy metal
alternative rock
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
Bob Marley
Ray Charles
Dolly Parton
N.W.A.
7. 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
Def Jam
gangsta rap
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
synthesizer
8. 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.
Carole King
disco
urban folk
art rock
9. 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
Prince
Def Jam
M.C. Hammer
psychedelic rock
10. 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
synthesizer
alternative music
Bob Marley
Run-D.M.C.
11. 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.
Aretha Franklin
alternative rock
Lauryn Hill
Led Zeppelin
12. 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.'
M.C. Hammer
Prince
grunge rock
Willie Nelson
13. 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
rap
Public Enemy
Bruce Springsteen
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
14. 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
Dolly Parton
bluegrass
M.C. Hammer
15. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
synthesizer
house music
N.W.A.
Bob Marley
16. 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
grunge rock
gangsta rap
bluegrass
17. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Nirvana
Public Enemy
Bruce Springsteen
rave
18. 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
Vanilla Ice
Carole King
urban folk
19. 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.
gangsta rap
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Sonic Youth
sampling
20. 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.
alternative rock
pop rock
Paul Simon
Tupac Shakur
21. 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.
Janis Joplin
Grateful Dead
Def Jam
Peter Gabriel
22. 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
Grandmaster Flash
Kurt Cobain
bluegrass
Clear channel
23. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Prince
MP3
progressive country
24. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
disco
David Bowie
alternative rock
Kenny Rogers
25. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Aretha Franklin
Jimi Hendrix
countrypolitan
world music
26. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
alternative music
techno
bluegrass
Prince
27. -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 -
analog recording
Sonic Youth
country pop
Patsy Cline
28. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Led Zeppelin
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
RIAA
Ray Charles
29. 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.
world music
Grateful Dead
Kurt Cobain
Clear channel
30. 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.
Willie Nelson
Aretha Franklin
bluegrass
Bruce Springsteen
31. 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
Paul Simon
Def Jam
Nirvana
Prince
32. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
33. 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
Michael Jackson
Willie Nelson
funk music
Patsy Cline
34. 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.
heavy metal
M.C. Hammer
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Aretha Franklin
35. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
synthesizer
bluegrass
world music
36. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
alternative music
Grateful Dead
breakdancing
Willie Nelson
37. 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
Grandmaster Flash
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
progressive country
RIAA
38. 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
house music
Prince
Vanilla Ice
M.C. Hammer
39. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
bluegrass
alternative music
Sonic Youth
Nirvana
40. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Bob Marley
hardcore
Madonna
country pop
41. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
Napster
MIDI
art rock
Bruce Springsteen
42. 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
progressive country
country pop
Patsy Cline
Peter Gabriel
43. 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
bluegrass
psychedelic rock
Grandmaster Flash
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.
Willie Nelson
funk music
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Beastie Boys
45. 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.
Nirvana
Prince
David Bowie
Carole King
46. 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.
The Sex Pistols
hip-hop
Prince
47. -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 -
Carlos Santana
Queen Latifah
bluegrass
Sonic Youth
48. 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.
grunge rock
nashville sound
alternative music
Tupac Shakur
49. 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
Clear channel
art rock
house music
Donna Summer
50. 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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
alternative rock
Bob Marley
rave