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Music Appreciation
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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. 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.
Patsy Cline
Prince
sampling
Queen Latifah
2. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
sampling
Kenny Rogers
pop rock
alternative rock
3. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
hardcore
Grateful Dead
progressive country
techno
4. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
hardcore
Janis Joplin
Kenny Rogers
MIDI
5. 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.
reggae
RIAA
rap
breakdancing
6. 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).
The Ramones
Sonic Youth
Queen Latifah
Donna Summer
7. 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
Public Enemy
house music
N.W.A.
Tupac Shakur
8. 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
Michael Jackson
rap
Lauryn Hill
9. 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.
Janis Joplin
N.W.A.
Led Zeppelin
Carlos Santana
10. 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
soul music
pop rock
punk rock
11. 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.
Grateful Dead
soft soul
disco
country pop
12. 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
Run-D.M.C.
Grateful Dead
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
13. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
pop rock
analog recording
Public Enemy
14. 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.
Queen Latifah
rap
The Ramones
Napster
15. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Queen Latifah
heavy metal
Janis Joplin
analog recording
16. 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
gangsta rap
grunge rock
Public Enemy
The Ramones
17. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
psychedelic rock
progressive country
Carlos Santana
Grateful Dead
18. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
Grandmaster Flash
bluegrass
house music
N.W.A.
19. 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
Tupac Shakur
Dolly Parton
N.W.A.
20. 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.
Beastie Boys
MIDI
The Sex Pistols
Bob Marley
21. 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
Beastie Boys
Tupac Shakur
pop rock
hip-hop
22. 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
Aretha Franklin
Dolly Parton
Prince
M.C. Hammer
23. 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.
soft soul
grunge rock
disco
progressive country
24. 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
Lauryn Hill
Vanilla Ice
synthesizer
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
25. 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.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
country pop
Dolly Parton
Kenny Rogers
26. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Janis Joplin
Clear channel
progressive country
27. 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
N.W.A.
Carole King
N.W.A.
28. 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.
Public Enemy
countrypolitan
punk rock
Peter Gabriel
29. 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
Sonic Youth
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
N.W.A.
Queen Latifah
30. 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.
Aretha Franklin
rap
gangsta rap
The Sex Pistols
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.
The Ramones
Janis Joplin
pop rock
Led Zeppelin
32. 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
countrypolitan
country pop
Willie Nelson
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
33. 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.
hardcore
Janis Joplin
art rock
MIDI
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
Queen Latifah
country pop
Run-D.M.C.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
35. 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.
heavy metal
Beastie Boys
funk music
Sonic Youth
36. 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.
Dolly Parton
Jimi Hendrix
sequencer
heavy metal
37. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
sampling
synthesizer
Napster
Peter Gabriel
38. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Kurt Cobain
punk rock
grunge rock
39. 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
punk rock
funk music
sequencer
rave
40. -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 -
sequencer
sampling
Grateful Dead
Sonic Youth
41. 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
alternative rock
Michael Jackson
Madonna
M.C. Hammer
42. 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.
hardcore
Janis Joplin
Grandmaster Flash
grunge rock
43. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
MP3
Jimi Hendrix
nashville sound
heavy metal
44. 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).
Peter Gabriel
hardcore
nashville sound
Dolly Parton
45. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
alternative music
Ray Charles
hip-hop
techno
46. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
rave
art rock
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
47. 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.
Tupac Shakur
heavy metal
Bob Marley
Willie Nelson
48. 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.
analog recording
The Sex Pistols
Grandmaster Flash
Michael Jackson
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
David Bowie
Peter Gabriel
sampling
Ray Charles
50. 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.
Kurt Cobain
alternative rock
Bruce Springsteen
Queen Latifah