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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Paul Simon
reggae
soul music
2. 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.
soul music
Janis Joplin
art rock
punk rock
3. 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.
Kurt Cobain
The Ramones
MP3
rap
4. 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.
Carole King
Patsy Cline
punk rock
disco
5. 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
MIDI
Michael Jackson
alternative rock
James Brown
6. 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
countrypolitan
disco
reggae
Peter Gabriel
7. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Nirvana
Def Jam
8. 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
Grandmaster Flash
alternative music
Michael Jackson
psychedelic rock
9. 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
countrypolitan
grunge rock
Kenny Rogers
Def Jam
10. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Grandmaster Flash
Jimi Hendrix
synthesizer
synthesizer
11. 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.
nashville sound
house music
Led Zeppelin
Lauryn Hill
12. 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
rave
Prince
Carlos Santana
Madonna
13. 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
house music
soft soul
Bob Marley
Ray Charles
14. 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
sequencer
Carole King
Vanilla Ice
15. 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
soft soul
MIDI
Paul Simon
16. 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.
punk rock
James Brown
world music
Kurt Cobain
17. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
psychedelic rock
Dolly Parton
Donna Summer
Patsy Cline
18. 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.
Dolly Parton
Sonic Youth
The Ramones
Public Enemy
19. 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
funk music
N.W.A.
hardcore
M.C. Hammer
20. 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.
Napster
Def Jam
N.W.A.
Dolly Parton
21. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
rave
Patsy Cline
Donna Summer
David Bowie
22. 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
Beastie Boys
funk music
Grateful Dead
23. 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
Queen Latifah
MIDI
Napster
Prince
24. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Kenny Rogers
The Sex Pistols
Ray Charles
disco
25. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
MP3
Aretha Franklin
Run-D.M.C.
world music
26. 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.
Willie Nelson
urban folk
synthesizer
Ray Charles
27. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
techno
pop rock
soul music
world music
28. 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.
Lauryn Hill
Napster
Kenny Rogers
hip-hop
29. 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
soft soul
house music
Led Zeppelin
30. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
Peter Gabriel
psychedelic rock
progressive country
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.
techno
Patsy Cline
disco
progressive country
32. 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.
hip-hop
heavy metal
Kenny Rogers
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
33. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
psychedelic rock
MP3
world music
alternative rock
34. 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.
Beastie Boys
M.C. Hammer
alternative rock
David Bowie
35. 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.
Bob Marley
punk rock
grunge rock
sequencer
36. 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
disco
Sonic Youth
world music
37. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Clear channel
Willie Nelson
psychedelic rock
38. 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
country pop
Bruce Springsteen
progressive country
RIAA
39. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
funk music
Carole King
rave
Peter Gabriel
40. 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.
Donna Summer
Vanilla Ice
Led Zeppelin
soul music
41. 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
Tupac Shakur
Jimi Hendrix
punk rock
42. 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
gangsta rap
bluegrass
hardcore
43. 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.
nashville sound
Clear channel
alternative rock
Janis Joplin
44. 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
hip-hop
Kenny Rogers
grunge rock
Jimi Hendrix
45. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
Sonic Youth
Janis Joplin
bluegrass
Vanilla Ice
46. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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47. 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
N.W.A.
world music
rap
funk music
48. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
heavy metal
Public Enemy
Aretha Franklin
N.W.A.
49. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Paul Simon
Madonna
Jimi Hendrix
Paul Simon
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.
Bruce Springsteen
Patsy Cline
soul music
art rock