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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
Lauryn Hill
M.C. Hammer
Def Jam
Bob Marley
2. 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.
Peter Gabriel
Bruce Springsteen
techno
urban folk
3. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
Beastie Boys
countrypolitan
Kenny Rogers
4. 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.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
synthesizer
Willie Nelson
rap
5. 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.
Carlos Santana
gangsta rap
countrypolitan
soft soul
6. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
soft soul
Madonna
David Bowie
disco
7. 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.
Queen Latifah
Nirvana
hip-hop
art rock
8. -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 -
alternative rock
Sonic Youth
Jimi Hendrix
Def Jam
9. 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
Grateful Dead
hardcore
punk rock
10. 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
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
M.C. Hammer
Lauryn Hill
Michael Jackson
11. 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.
funk music
Napster
Led Zeppelin
urban folk
12. -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 -
Napster
RIAA
Donna Summer
Sonic Youth
13. 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
Napster
Bruce Springsteen
Madonna
14. 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.
RIAA
Sonic Youth
Bruce Springsteen
grunge rock
15. 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
Janis Joplin
disco
Bob Marley
16. 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.
MIDI
Donna Summer
alternative rock
house music
17. 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
grunge rock
Led Zeppelin
Public Enemy
Grateful Dead
18. 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
nashville sound
Bruce Springsteen
Vanilla Ice
soul music
19. 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.
Carole King
Janis Joplin
Bob Marley
Willie Nelson
20. 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.
Beastie Boys
Napster
sampling
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
21. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Kurt Cobain
Tupac Shakur
Jimi Hendrix
techno
22. 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
Grateful Dead
punk rock
hardcore
23. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
psychedelic rock
Carole King
Patsy Cline
N.W.A.
24. 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
Carlos Santana
funk music
MP3
RIAA
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
sequencer
sampling
countrypolitan
Clear channel
26. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
MP3
pop rock
Janis Joplin
rave
27. 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
Dolly Parton
pop rock
Napster
28. '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.
Public Enemy
Aretha Franklin
synthesizer
sequencer
29. 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
soft soul
Kurt Cobain
Sonic Youth
30. 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
psychedelic rock
house music
alternative rock
pop rock
31. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Donna Summer
Paul Simon
David Bowie
Queen Latifah
32. 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
Tupac Shakur
Run-D.M.C.
Beastie Boys
Dolly Parton
33. 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
Run-D.M.C.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Vanilla Ice
Led Zeppelin
34. 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
James Brown
Clear channel
psychedelic rock
35. 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
Beastie Boys
Run-D.M.C.
Public Enemy
reggae
36. 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.
The Sex Pistols
bluegrass
Jimi Hendrix
synthesizer
37. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
funk music
Nirvana
world music
psychedelic rock
38. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
nashville sound
Willie Nelson
punk rock
39. 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).
reggae
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
The Ramones
Madonna
40. 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).
alternative rock
Napster
nashville sound
Madonna
41. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Lauryn Hill
Grandmaster Flash
sampling
progressive country
42. 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
soft soul
N.W.A.
funk music
country pop
43. 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
analog recording
Carole King
house music
Aretha Franklin
44. 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
soul music
bluegrass
N.W.A.
heavy metal
45. 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.
funk music
Queen Latifah
countrypolitan
Bruce Springsteen
46. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Willie Nelson
RIAA
pop rock
Clear channel
47. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
reggae
Ray Charles
Nirvana
rap
48. 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.
Queen Latifah
heavy metal
The Ramones
Kurt Cobain
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
Peter Gabriel
Michael Jackson
Carole King
Nirvana
50. 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.
soft soul
art rock
urban folk
pop rock