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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
pop rock
Jimi Hendrix
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
soft soul
2. 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
Janis Joplin
Carole King
Donna Summer
Paul Simon
3. 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
techno
art rock
Kenny Rogers
4. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
Public Enemy
Jimi Hendrix
house music
5. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
punk rock
James Brown
Grateful Dead
art rock
6. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
country pop
The Ramones
Patsy Cline
Janis Joplin
7. 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.
Tupac Shakur
breakdancing
soft soul
nashville sound
8. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Peter Gabriel
alternative rock
9. 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.
Beastie Boys
David Bowie
N.W.A.
Carlos Santana
10. 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
Paul Simon
RIAA
Peter Gabriel
rave
11. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
James Brown
pop rock
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Michael Jackson
12. 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
disco
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
nashville sound
heavy metal
13. 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
alternative rock
alternative rock
Public Enemy
14. '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.
hardcore
country pop
Aretha Franklin
nashville sound
15. 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
pop rock
funk music
rave
Carlos Santana
16. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
grunge rock
MIDI
heavy metal
The Ramones
17. 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
urban folk
MIDI
countrypolitan
Vanilla Ice
18. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
art rock
heavy metal
Def Jam
Dolly Parton
19. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Lauryn Hill
Jimi Hendrix
hardcore
analog recording
20. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
David Bowie
Bob Marley
disco
Grandmaster Flash
21. 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.
rave
Kenny Rogers
alternative rock
Madonna
22. 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.
Tupac Shakur
alternative rock
art rock
Run-D.M.C.
23. 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
art rock
techno
Napster
24. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
grunge rock
Grandmaster Flash
Willie Nelson
rap
25. 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.
MP3
disco
Def Jam
Clear channel
26. 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
rap
RIAA
Carlos Santana
progressive country
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
David Bowie
Ray Charles
Bob Marley
28. 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.
Lauryn Hill
Kurt Cobain
Ray Charles
alternative music
29. 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).
pop rock
hardcore
Patsy Cline
Queen Latifah
30. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
countrypolitan
Public Enemy
heavy metal
31. 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.
Queen Latifah
Peter Gabriel
Ray Charles
disco
32. 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.
Vanilla Ice
Janis Joplin
funk music
Peter Gabriel
33. 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.
Def Jam
Lauryn Hill
psychedelic rock
Queen Latifah
34. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
reggae
Grandmaster Flash
world music
Bob Marley
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.
countrypolitan
soft soul
nashville sound
disco
36. 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.
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth
punk rock
grunge rock
37. 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
Beastie Boys
N.W.A.
nashville sound
Michael Jackson
38. 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
Kenny Rogers
Michael Jackson
sampling
Lauryn Hill
39. 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.
Napster
psychedelic rock
heavy metal
Run-D.M.C.
40. 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
Nirvana
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Donna Summer
pop rock
41. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Napster
gangsta rap
Nirvana
The Ramones
42. 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
Public Enemy
Def Jam
synthesizer
nashville sound
43. 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
Janis Joplin
psychedelic rock
Public Enemy
hip-hop
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
country pop
The Ramones
hip-hop
grunge rock
45. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Beastie Boys
techno
Tupac Shakur
soul music
46. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
reggae
nashville sound
soul music
Dolly Parton
47. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
Paul Simon
bluegrass
Madonna
Bob Marley
48. 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
Kurt Cobain
Bob Marley
Grateful Dead
reggae
49. 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
Prince
Queen Latifah
country pop
hip-hop
50. 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.
Beastie Boys
Napster
hip-hop
Sean 'Puffy' Combs