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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Patsy Cline
Sonic Youth
breakdancing
Paul Simon
2. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Lauryn Hill
Nirvana
Napster
Janis Joplin
3. 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
alternative music
house music
Jimi Hendrix
Tupac Shakur
4. 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.
rap
Nirvana
N.W.A.
nashville sound
5. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
house music
techno
Bruce Springsteen
country pop
6. 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
The Ramones
psychedelic rock
Michael Jackson
rave
7. 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.
Public Enemy
sampling
RIAA
progressive country
8. 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
David Bowie
disco
Peter Gabriel
9. 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.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Tupac Shakur
alternative rock
Ray Charles
10. 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
RIAA
Madonna
Ray Charles
alternative music
11. 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
James Brown
soft soul
Bruce Springsteen
12. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
The Ramones
soft soul
heavy metal
MP3
13. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
pop rock
rave
heavy metal
Jimi Hendrix
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.
breakdancing
Queen Latifah
Carlos Santana
Paul Simon
15. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Beastie Boys
Prince
breakdancing
country pop
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
urban folk
alternative rock
funk music
Vanilla Ice
17. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
hardcore
Patsy Cline
rave
Led Zeppelin
18. 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
countrypolitan
art rock
19. 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
funk music
James Brown
Def Jam
Prince
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.
Led Zeppelin
rave
Donna Summer
Aretha Franklin
21. 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
Grateful Dead
Carlos Santana
Madonna
22. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
disco
Jimi Hendrix
soft soul
Grandmaster Flash
23. 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
Aretha Franklin
countrypolitan
pop rock
hip-hop
24. 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
Patsy Cline
Dolly Parton
Bob Marley
Public Enemy
25. 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
Clear channel
hardcore
gangsta rap
26. 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
countrypolitan
hip-hop
Nirvana
27. 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
Donna Summer
alternative rock
psychedelic rock
28. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
grunge rock
Clear channel
techno
29. 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.
pop rock
Janis Joplin
bluegrass
Bruce Springsteen
30. 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.
Lauryn Hill
Janis Joplin
Carlos Santana
M.C. Hammer
31. 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.
hardcore
Led Zeppelin
Michael Jackson
Tupac Shakur
32. 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).
Public Enemy
synthesizer
Madonna
Aretha Franklin
33. 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
RIAA
Queen Latifah
Sonic Youth
34. Achieved celebrity as a member of the art rock group Genesis before embarking on a solo career. Gabriel's best-selling single 'Sledgehammer' became Number One pop and Number Sixty-one R&B in 1986. The award-winning video version of 'Sledgehammer' was
house music
world music
Madonna
Peter Gabriel
35. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grandmaster Flash
Queen Latifah
Sonic Youth
Prince
36. 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
techno
urban folk
hip-hop
Prince
37. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Donna Summer
Jimi Hendrix
Carole King
Public Enemy
38. 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.
Tupac Shakur
Beastie Boys
Michael Jackson
countrypolitan
39. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Vanilla Ice
Bob Marley
Jimi Hendrix
art rock
40. 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
Aretha Franklin
world music
progressive country
Queen Latifah
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.
Sonic Youth
Ray Charles
Carole King
Madonna
42. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
M.C. Hammer
The Ramones
rap
43. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Grateful Dead
Aretha Franklin
The Sex Pistols
world music
44. 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.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
rap
Bob Marley
art rock
45. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
N.W.A.
bluegrass
Paul Simon
pop rock
46. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Bob Marley
Jimi Hendrix
Ray Charles
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
47. 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.
Public Enemy
analog recording
pop rock
Napster
48. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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49. 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.
Lauryn Hill
James Brown
Kurt Cobain
countrypolitan
50. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Bob Marley
N.W.A.
Napster