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Music Appreciation
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1. 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.
Bob Marley
M.C. Hammer
Prince
The Sex Pistols
2. 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
Peter Gabriel
grunge rock
heavy metal
synthesizer
3. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Ray Charles
hip-hop
alternative music
MP3
4. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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5. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Donna Summer
Bob Marley
Lauryn Hill
techno
6. 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.
Kurt Cobain
world music
Bruce Springsteen
M.C. Hammer
7. 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
reggae
James Brown
Michael Jackson
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
8. 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
MIDI
RIAA
alternative music
Willie Nelson
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.
M.C. Hammer
M.C. Hammer
Beastie Boys
Janis Joplin
10. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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11. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
countrypolitan
Kurt Cobain
bluegrass
12. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Dolly Parton
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
synthesizer
breakdancing
13. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
soft soul
M.C. Hammer
rave
Madonna
14. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
alternative music
Beastie Boys
disco
David Bowie
15. 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
Lauryn Hill
Grateful Dead
Bob Marley
16. 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).
Def Jam
Peter Gabriel
Madonna
Donna Summer
17. 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.
heavy metal
James Brown
Grateful Dead
gangsta rap
18. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
MIDI
heavy metal
Grandmaster Flash
countrypolitan
19. 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.
alternative rock
analog recording
Donna Summer
Nirvana
20. 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.
Napster
Carlos Santana
Patsy Cline
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
21. 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.
Kurt Cobain
alternative music
Nirvana
disco
22. 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
heavy metal
house music
psychedelic rock
breakdancing
23. 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.'
grunge rock
Carole King
Willie Nelson
Kenny Rogers
24. 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.
Ray Charles
alternative rock
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Led Zeppelin
25. 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
Clear channel
sequencer
techno
nashville sound
26. 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
house music
Kenny Rogers
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
rave
27. 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
gangsta rap
rave
Prince
Lauryn Hill
28. 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
MP3
alternative music
Clear channel
urban folk
29. 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
progressive country
Peter Gabriel
Sonic Youth
Run-D.M.C.
30. 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).
countrypolitan
hardcore
heavy metal
Queen Latifah
31. 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
Bob Marley
Run-D.M.C.
Led Zeppelin
32. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
soul music
Donna Summer
breakdancing
psychedelic rock
33. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Public Enemy
disco
breakdancing
Nirvana
34. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Michael Jackson
N.W.A.
art rock
Grandmaster Flash
35. 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.
disco
nashville sound
Janis Joplin
David Bowie
36. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
grunge rock
Nirvana
bluegrass
psychedelic rock
37. 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
hardcore
Prince
Beastie Boys
analog recording
38. 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.
Prince
sequencer
rave
James Brown
39. 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.
gangsta rap
grunge rock
urban folk
Jimi Hendrix
40. 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.
Donna Summer
Queen Latifah
urban folk
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
41. 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
M.C. Hammer
countrypolitan
Willie Nelson
Def Jam
42. 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
techno
Public Enemy
Madonna
gangsta rap
43. '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.
Queen Latifah
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Grateful Dead
Aretha Franklin
44. 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.
world music
Kenny Rogers
Bob Marley
rap
45. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Janis Joplin
techno
Jimi Hendrix
Carlos Santana
46. 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.
Carlos Santana
heavy metal
progressive country
urban folk
47. 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
techno
Led Zeppelin
gangsta rap
48. 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.
David Bowie
Kenny Rogers
Jimi Hendrix
Tupac Shakur
49. 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
Willie Nelson
Ray Charles
reggae
Aretha Franklin
50. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Willie Nelson
soul music
MP3
Michael Jackson
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