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Music Appreciation
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1. -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 -
Run-D.M.C.
Sonic Youth
breakdancing
Bruce Springsteen
2. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Grateful Dead
MP3
sampling
pop rock
3. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Nirvana
N.W.A.
punk rock
James Brown
4. 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).
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
nashville sound
countrypolitan
Donna Summer
5. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
punk rock
Michael Jackson
MP3
soul music
6. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
The Sex Pistols
David Bowie
Aretha Franklin
rave
7. 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
David Bowie
Michael Jackson
N.W.A.
rave
8. 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
soft soul
David Bowie
reggae
9. 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.
Tupac Shakur
Carole King
Kurt Cobain
Grateful Dead
10. 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.
Run-D.M.C.
Bruce Springsteen
Carole King
Carlos Santana
11. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Carlos Santana
alternative music
synthesizer
pop rock
12. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
M.C. Hammer
Aretha Franklin
Bruce Springsteen
13. 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).
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Nirvana
Lauryn Hill
Donna Summer
14. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
alternative rock
Nirvana
Ray Charles
Carole King
15. 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.
techno
Napster
The Ramones
Beastie Boys
16. 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
hip-hop
art rock
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
17. 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.
punk rock
reggae
Napster
Bruce Springsteen
18. 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
Public Enemy
Def Jam
sequencer
Bob Marley
19. 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
punk rock
Run-D.M.C.
heavy metal
20. 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
hardcore
Michael Jackson
Carlos Santana
21. 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.
The Ramones
art rock
Queen Latifah
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
22. 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
alternative music
Paul Simon
house music
rave
23. 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
pop rock
punk rock
The Ramones
house music
24. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
reggae
countrypolitan
techno
Paul Simon
25. 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
urban folk
Paul Simon
analog recording
Lauryn Hill
26. 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
Dolly Parton
rap
Tupac Shakur
27. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
techno
Carole King
Peter Gabriel
country pop
28. Pioneered West Coast gangsta rap with the release of the album Straight Outta Compton. Their recordings expressed the gangsta lifestyle - saturated with images of sex and violence. The nucleus of the group was formed in 1986 - when O'Shea ;Ice C
Janis Joplin
Carlos Santana
N.W.A.
reggae
29. 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
Clear channel
Michael Jackson
sampling
funk music
30. 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.
sampling
world music
urban folk
art rock
31. Born in the impoverished shantytowns of Kingston - Jamaica - reggae first became popular in the United States in 1973 - after the release of the Jamaican film The Harder They Come and its soundtrack album. The heart of reggae music consists of 'riddi
Dolly Parton
reggae
Janis Joplin
Grandmaster Flash
32. 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.
Willie Nelson
M.C. Hammer
reggae
The Ramones
33. 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.
progressive country
nashville sound
Carole King
country pop
34. 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
Vanilla Ice
RIAA
The Sex Pistols
Kenny Rogers
35. 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.
Public Enemy
sampling
The Ramones
gangsta rap
36. '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.
Run-D.M.C.
Bob Marley
country pop
Aretha Franklin
37. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Jimi Hendrix
hardcore
country pop
Janis Joplin
38. 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
James Brown
Carole King
M.C. Hammer
Peter Gabriel
39. 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.
Carlos Santana
MIDI
Ray Charles
sampling
40. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
The Ramones
progressive country
gangsta rap
soul music
41. 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
hardcore
Bob Marley
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
42. 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.
Led Zeppelin
sequencer
Napster
David Bowie
43. 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.
Aretha Franklin
sampling
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
urban folk
44. 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.
Kurt Cobain
Tupac Shakur
disco
Madonna
45. 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.
Janis Joplin
rave
Dolly Parton
sampling
46. 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).
Queen Latifah
M.C. Hammer
rave
Madonna
47. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Michael Jackson
alternative music
Nirvana
Vanilla Ice
48. Variant of hip-hop music; its emergence was heralded nationwide by the release of the album Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude). It included artists such as Snoop Doggy Dogg - 2Pac Shakur - and the Notorious B.I.G.
Nirvana
Nirvana
MIDI
gangsta rap
49. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
rap
world music
synthesizer
urban folk
50. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
heavy metal
The Ramones
house music
Willie Nelson
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