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Music Appreciation
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1. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
soft soul
pop rock
Donna Summer
alternative rock
2. 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.
rap
breakdancing
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
gangsta rap
3. 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
pop rock
techno
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
rap
4. 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.
psychedelic rock
David Bowie
Janis Joplin
RIAA
5. 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
pop rock
RIAA
David Bowie
Def Jam
6. 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
Led Zeppelin
Kenny Rogers
Bob Marley
Clear channel
7. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
Peter Gabriel
soul music
rave
soul music
8. 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.
Donna Summer
RIAA
Carlos Santana
Bob Marley
9. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
The Sex Pistols
Ray Charles
Kurt Cobain
country pop
10. 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
Queen Latifah
RIAA
James Brown
11. 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
house music
techno
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Beastie Boys
12. 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.
urban folk
synthesizer
Aretha Franklin
James Brown
13. 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
N.W.A.
Patsy Cline
David Bowie
14. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Ray Charles
Queen Latifah
soul music
M.C. Hammer
15. 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
gangsta rap
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
The Sex Pistols
Paul Simon
16. 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
rap
Ray Charles
reggae
gangsta rap
17. 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.
bluegrass
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
nashville sound
progressive country
18. 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).
Peter Gabriel
Madonna
soul music
Lauryn Hill
19. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
soul music
Carole King
David Bowie
progressive country
20. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
psychedelic rock
Grateful Dead
M.C. Hammer
Jimi Hendrix
21. 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
Queen Latifah
Public Enemy
urban folk
Run-D.M.C.
22. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
Run-D.M.C.
art rock
Carlos Santana
23. 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.
progressive country
Beastie Boys
Prince
Madonna
24. 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.
Beastie Boys
Carole King
funk music
soft soul
25. 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.
country pop
Public Enemy
Clear channel
Kenny Rogers
26. 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
soft soul
RIAA
The Ramones
Jimi Hendrix
27. 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
Paul Simon
Clear channel
Willie Nelson
Vanilla Ice
28. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Grandmaster Flash
Paul Simon
breakdancing
analog recording
29. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
Prince
world music
reggae
30. 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
Lauryn Hill
nashville sound
N.W.A.
31. '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.
Jimi Hendrix
Aretha Franklin
punk rock
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
32. 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
alternative music
rave
Madonna
urban folk
33. 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.
reggae
Carlos Santana
David Bowie
soul music
34. '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.
country pop
Vanilla Ice
world music
Aretha Franklin
35. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Run-D.M.C.
The Ramones
world music
Led Zeppelin
36. 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.
country pop
Tupac Shakur
N.W.A.
The Ramones
37. 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
urban folk
gangsta rap
world music
38. 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.
Queen Latifah
rap
progressive country
soul music
39. 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
hip-hop
MP3
Madonna
40. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
M.C. Hammer
house music
synthesizer
rave
41. 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.
Paul Simon
Bruce Springsteen
Queen Latifah
Napster
42. 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
RIAA
Led Zeppelin
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
43. 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.
Queen Latifah
sampling
reggae
psychedelic rock
44. 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
Carole King
rap
Grateful Dead
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
45. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
The Sex Pistols
Run-D.M.C.
Michael Jackson
bluegrass
46. -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
Beastie Boys
Lauryn Hill
Sonic Youth
47. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
house music
Napster
urban folk
country pop
48. 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
hip-hop
rave
Michael Jackson
sequencer
49. 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
house music
analog recording
nashville sound
Patsy Cline
50. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Jimi Hendrix
Patsy Cline
rave
Nirvana