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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.
The Sex Pistols
nashville sound
Vanilla Ice
Queen Latifah
2. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
disco
MIDI
heavy metal
Beastie Boys
3. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
Paul Simon
Sonic Youth
hip-hop
soft soul
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.
MP3
progressive country
Janis Joplin
hip-hop
5. 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.
Tupac Shakur
Vanilla Ice
psychedelic rock
hardcore
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.
Bruce Springsteen
alternative rock
world music
hip-hop
7. 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.
disco
grunge rock
Peter Gabriel
soft soul
8. 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
sequencer
Lauryn Hill
techno
Janis Joplin
9. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Lauryn Hill
Ray Charles
Led Zeppelin
The Ramones
10. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
Carole King
breakdancing
soft soul
11. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
MIDI
soul music
Bruce Springsteen
soft soul
12. 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.
Carlos Santana
synthesizer
Led Zeppelin
sequencer
13. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
pop rock
countrypolitan
Prince
Donna Summer
14. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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15. 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.
Michael Jackson
Vanilla Ice
sampling
synthesizer
16. 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
M.C. Hammer
Vanilla Ice
MIDI
17. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
sampling
Grandmaster Flash
countrypolitan
Carole King
18. 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.
punk rock
punk rock
Carlos Santana
Peter Gabriel
19. 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
country pop
Prince
reggae
Lauryn Hill
20. 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
sampling
MIDI
Public Enemy
Kenny Rogers
21. 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
techno
synthesizer
disco
22. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Clear channel
Led Zeppelin
synthesizer
Aretha Franklin
23. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
breakdancing
country pop
Madonna
M.C. Hammer
24. 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.
Led Zeppelin
grunge rock
Kenny Rogers
M.C. Hammer
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.
sampling
Vanilla Ice
disco
The Sex Pistols
26. 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.
Tupac Shakur
Janis Joplin
Grandmaster Flash
country pop
27. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
synthesizer
breakdancing
MIDI
Kurt Cobain
28. 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
breakdancing
Led Zeppelin
funk music
Carole King
29. 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
Ray Charles
Napster
hip-hop
Napster
30. 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.
Clear channel
The Sex Pistols
Paul Simon
Napster
31. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Def Jam
Vanilla Ice
Queen Latifah
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
rave
pop rock
Queen Latifah
alternative music
33. 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
Beastie Boys
rap
Lauryn Hill
synthesizer
34. 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
M.C. Hammer
RIAA
rave
Kurt Cobain
35. 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.
psychedelic rock
Def Jam
Bruce Springsteen
Paul Simon
36. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Janis Joplin
country pop
hip-hop
Grandmaster Flash
37. 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
rap
urban folk
Peter Gabriel
MP3
38. 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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
countrypolitan
grunge rock
Madonna
39. 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.
David Bowie
sampling
disco
analog recording
40. 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.
Nirvana
Carlos Santana
Patsy Cline
Napster
41. 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.
punk rock
Kurt Cobain
Public Enemy
progressive country
42. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
synthesizer
Peter Gabriel
country pop
43. 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.'
nashville sound
rap
Willie Nelson
heavy metal
44. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
reggae
funk music
gangsta rap
45. 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
progressive country
countrypolitan
grunge rock
N.W.A.
46. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
bluegrass
breakdancing
nashville sound
world music
47. 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
grunge rock
Nirvana
Grandmaster Flash
48. 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.
country pop
Carole King
Jimi Hendrix
bluegrass
49. 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
M.C. Hammer
alternative music
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
bluegrass
50. 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.'
Donna Summer
rave
techno
Willie Nelson