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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Janis Joplin
Kurt Cobain
Jimi Hendrix
Bob Marley
2. 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.
Nirvana
urban folk
Carlos Santana
James Brown
3. 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
heavy metal
Def Jam
Vanilla Ice
Michael Jackson
4. 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.
disco
Napster
grunge rock
reggae
5. 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.
analog recording
Peter Gabriel
Janis Joplin
James Brown
6. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
David Bowie
N.W.A.
Def Jam
Beastie Boys
7. 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.
Grateful Dead
Bob Marley
psychedelic rock
Paul Simon
8. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
synthesizer
David Bowie
Grandmaster Flash
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
9. 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.
Beastie Boys
Janis Joplin
reggae
country pop
10. 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
MIDI
Public Enemy
bluegrass
Janis Joplin
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
countrypolitan
Public Enemy
reggae
The Sex Pistols
12. 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.
sampling
reggae
punk rock
RIAA
13. 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
M.C. Hammer
The Sex Pistols
house music
progressive country
14. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Ray Charles
Carlos Santana
nashville sound
15. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
pop rock
N.W.A.
analog recording
hardcore
16. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
techno
rave
Bruce Springsteen
soft soul
17. 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
Janis Joplin
Ray Charles
house music
psychedelic rock
18. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
Carlos Santana
Nirvana
Grandmaster Flash
19. '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.
heavy metal
Napster
Aretha Franklin
countrypolitan
20. 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
art rock
Dolly Parton
funk music
Carole King
21. 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
urban folk
Grandmaster Flash
Tupac Shakur
22. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
breakdancing
Dolly Parton
world music
synthesizer
23. 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
RIAA
alternative rock
Bob Marley
Grateful Dead
24. 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.
The Ramones
sequencer
Sonic Youth
pop rock
25. 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
country pop
Jimi Hendrix
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
26. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
synthesizer
MIDI
Nirvana
alternative rock
27. 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
synthesizer
Michael Jackson
Ray Charles
N.W.A.
28. 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.
analog recording
Carlos Santana
M.C. Hammer
hip-hop
29. 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.
Clear channel
art rock
Kenny Rogers
analog recording
30. 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.
Carole King
Madonna
Dolly Parton
The Ramones
31. 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.
Bob Marley
Michael Jackson
Led Zeppelin
disco
32. 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
Vanilla Ice
nashville sound
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Lauryn Hill
33. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
MP3
soft soul
sequencer
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
Def Jam
Napster
disco
35. 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
Sonic Youth
Public Enemy
rave
36. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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37. 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.
sequencer
alternative rock
RIAA
Paul Simon
38. 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
Madonna
Queen Latifah
countrypolitan
39. 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.
urban folk
MIDI
Napster
sequencer
40. 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
Willie Nelson
pop rock
Lauryn Hill
Run-D.M.C.
41. 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.
art rock
Paul Simon
Tupac Shakur
Led Zeppelin
42. 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.
psychedelic rock
Carole King
Run-D.M.C.
soft soul
43. 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
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Run-D.M.C.
RIAA
Prince
44. 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
Kurt Cobain
analog recording
reggae
Madonna
45. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Kenny Rogers
Madonna
grunge rock
46. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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47. 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
Lauryn Hill
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Donna Summer
48. 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.
punk rock
psychedelic rock
sampling
MIDI
49. 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.
Kenny Rogers
MIDI
pop rock
Clear channel
50. 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
techno
Nirvana
Paul Simon
Kurt Cobain