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Music Appreciation
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1. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Jimi Hendrix
Aretha Franklin
gangsta rap
urban folk
2. 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.
world music
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
countrypolitan
disco
3. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
gangsta rap
Vanilla Ice
techno
MP3
4. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
rave
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Nirvana
breakdancing
5. 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.
Willie Nelson
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Carlos Santana
Clear channel
6. 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
Paul Simon
rap
Bob Marley
The Sex Pistols
7. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Kenny Rogers
David Bowie
Vanilla Ice
rave
8. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
rap
house music
MIDI
Donna Summer
9. 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
bluegrass
Run-D.M.C.
alternative music
The Sex Pistols
10. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Aretha Franklin
Michael Jackson
countrypolitan
sampling
11. 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
Vanilla Ice
techno
MIDI
RIAA
12. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
MP3
rap
Willie Nelson
13. 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.
The Ramones
Napster
sequencer
house music
14. 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
countrypolitan
David Bowie
Def Jam
house music
15. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Ray Charles
grunge rock
Dolly Parton
Grateful Dead
16. 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
Carlos Santana
Led Zeppelin
nashville sound
Def Jam
17. 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
Dolly Parton
Prince
MP3
house music
18. 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
Tupac Shakur
Prince
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Carole King
19. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
funk music
M.C. Hammer
Carlos Santana
MIDI
20. 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
Prince
Beastie Boys
Bob Marley
Patsy Cline
21. 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.
Dolly Parton
Ray Charles
hardcore
MIDI
22. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
countrypolitan
rap
Ray Charles
sequencer
23. 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.
Bob Marley
Queen Latifah
The Ramones
breakdancing
24. 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.
Madonna
rap
analog recording
pop rock
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
sampling
urban folk
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Lauryn Hill
26. 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.
Nirvana
Carole King
Kurt Cobain
progressive country
27. 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
alternative music
Kenny Rogers
Clear channel
Public Enemy
28. '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.
nashville sound
synthesizer
Patsy Cline
Aretha Franklin
29. 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.
breakdancing
alternative rock
breakdancing
Napster
30. 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
Beastie Boys
Carole King
hardcore
funk music
31. 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
Donna Summer
breakdancing
punk rock
Michael Jackson
32. 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.
Grateful Dead
Peter Gabriel
Queen Latifah
country pop
33. 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).
N.W.A.
soft soul
Tupac Shakur
hardcore
34. 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
breakdancing
analog recording
Tupac Shakur
35. 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.
Prince
disco
sampling
psychedelic rock
36. 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
soul music
Carole King
Run-D.M.C.
N.W.A.
37. 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
disco
progressive country
countrypolitan
Bob Marley
38. 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.
Michael Jackson
punk rock
art rock
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
techno
Vanilla Ice
The Sex Pistols
Run-D.M.C.
40. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
RIAA
bluegrass
Napster
MIDI
41. 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.
techno
Grateful Dead
Grandmaster Flash
Kenny Rogers
42. 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
house music
Def Jam
Led Zeppelin
alternative music
43. 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
rave
Ray Charles
Willie Nelson
44. 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.
nashville sound
Paul Simon
Bob Marley
punk rock
45. 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.
punk rock
world music
Grateful Dead
urban folk
46. 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.
nashville sound
countrypolitan
Carole King
M.C. Hammer
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 -
Sonic Youth
alternative music
analog recording
progressive country
48. 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.
rap
Donna Summer
Paul Simon
Kurt Cobain
49. 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
MP3
Clear channel
Peter Gabriel
hip-hop
50. 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.
grunge rock
Carlos Santana
Run-D.M.C.
psychedelic rock
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