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Music Appreciation
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1. 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.
pop rock
bluegrass
Carole King
grunge rock
2. 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.
urban folk
The Sex Pistols
Def Jam
Janis Joplin
3. 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.
hip-hop
Dolly Parton
Public Enemy
breakdancing
4. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Jimi Hendrix
hardcore
MP3
N.W.A.
5. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
art rock
Grateful Dead
Ray Charles
Public Enemy
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
Grateful Dead
M.C. Hammer
MIDI
RIAA
7. -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 -
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Sonic Youth
funk music
Bruce Springsteen
8. 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
Aretha Franklin
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Michael Jackson
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
9. 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.
funk music
Bruce Springsteen
world music
techno
10. 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
psychedelic rock
alternative music
house music
Donna Summer
11. 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
pop rock
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
sampling
Public Enemy
12. 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.
sampling
Paul Simon
Kurt Cobain
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
13. 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
sequencer
Queen Latifah
Aretha Franklin
14. 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.
Run-D.M.C.
Led Zeppelin
Aretha Franklin
rave
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
hip-hop
Grandmaster Flash
progressive country
hardcore
16. 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).
Clear channel
James Brown
Madonna
Ray Charles
17. 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.
nashville sound
The Sex Pistols
MP3
Lauryn Hill
18. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Aretha Franklin
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
techno
David Bowie
19. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
RIAA
grunge rock
countrypolitan
rave
20. '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
Public Enemy
funk music
Tupac Shakur
21. 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.
Bob Marley
sequencer
disco
hardcore
22. 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
Paul Simon
Public Enemy
Madonna
alternative music
23. 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.
M.C. Hammer
Kurt Cobain
Public Enemy
Beastie Boys
24. 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.
Vanilla Ice
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
alternative rock
Bruce Springsteen
25. 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)
country pop
reggae
Lauryn Hill
26. 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
Ray Charles
Def Jam
progressive country
27. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
funk music
Napster
N.W.A.
Jimi Hendrix
28. 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
Kurt Cobain
Paul Simon
reggae
progressive country
29. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
RIAA
rave
Def Jam
N.W.A.
30. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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31. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Lauryn Hill
James Brown
world music
Carlos Santana
32. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
breakdancing
Peter Gabriel
Clear channel
Nirvana
33. 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.
pop rock
Kenny Rogers
Run-D.M.C.
Michael Jackson
34. 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.
world music
Peter Gabriel
James Brown
35. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
pop rock
country pop
Tupac Shakur
Ray Charles
36. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
sampling
urban folk
country pop
Willie Nelson
37. 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
Bob Marley
RIAA
pop rock
38. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Tupac Shakur
MIDI
39. 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
progressive country
synthesizer
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Vanilla Ice
40. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
house music
countrypolitan
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
breakdancing
41. 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.
MP3
Tupac Shakur
hip-hop
The Ramones
42. 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
Peter Gabriel
country pop
analog recording
Paul Simon
43. 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
nashville sound
countrypolitan
Tupac Shakur
44. 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
urban folk
Carlos Santana
techno
45. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
nashville sound
Paul Simon
Donna Summer
46. 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.
Napster
soul music
Bruce Springsteen
Madonna
47. 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.
nashville sound
Janis Joplin
world music
gangsta rap
48. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
Aretha Franklin
Lauryn Hill
Queen Latifah
49. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
Dolly Parton
bluegrass
nashville sound
Carole King
50. 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.'
Willie Nelson
pop rock
Patsy Cline
country pop