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Music Appreciation
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1. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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2. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
funk music
countrypolitan
urban folk
Grandmaster Flash
3. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Bruce Springsteen
soul music
synthesizer
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
4. 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.
Grateful Dead
The Ramones
The Sex Pistols
Dolly Parton
5. 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.
breakdancing
progressive country
sampling
reggae
6. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
reggae
Nirvana
N.W.A.
7. 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.'
Willie Nelson
rave
hardcore
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
8. 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.
The Ramones
N.W.A.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
urban folk
9. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
hip-hop
alternative rock
world music
synthesizer
10. 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
Kurt Cobain
N.W.A.
countrypolitan
hip-hop
11. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Jimi Hendrix
The Ramones
Public Enemy
12. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
pop rock
Run-D.M.C.
art rock
Grandmaster Flash
13. 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
alternative rock
breakdancing
psychedelic rock
14. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
reggae
James Brown
Public Enemy
15. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
Willie Nelson
soft soul
sequencer
heavy metal
16. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
techno
bluegrass
breakdancing
disco
17. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rap
reggae
rave
Janis Joplin
18. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
synthesizer
rave
Kenny Rogers
19. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
Kenny Rogers
Nirvana
Madonna
psychedelic rock
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
art rock
Paul Simon
Prince
Public Enemy
21. 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).
N.W.A.
soft soul
Donna Summer
funk music
22. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
synthesizer
Peter Gabriel
Beastie Boys
23. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Def Jam
The Ramones
soul music
Aretha Franklin
24. 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
alternative rock
alternative music
analog recording
Kurt Cobain
25. 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.
Carole King
disco
soul music
alternative rock
26. 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).
Run-D.M.C.
Janis Joplin
hardcore
breakdancing
27. 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
techno
M.C. Hammer
Prince
breakdancing
28. 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.
The Sex Pistols
sequencer
alternative rock
Clear channel
29. 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
house music
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Peter Gabriel
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
M.C. Hammer
bluegrass
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
house music
31. 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)
hardcore
Grandmaster Flash
Grateful Dead
32. 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.
The Ramones
art rock
M.C. Hammer
Michael Jackson
33. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Willie Nelson
Madonna
Ray Charles
M.C. Hammer
34. 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.
sampling
alternative rock
Bob Marley
techno
35. 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
pop rock
RIAA
Dolly Parton
36. 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
Patsy Cline
soul music
James Brown
hip-hop
37. 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
Vanilla Ice
techno
soft soul
rave
38. 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
Patsy Cline
Public Enemy
Madonna
Grateful Dead
39. 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.
hardcore
Dolly Parton
Carlos Santana
Beastie Boys
40. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Springsteen
soul music
Napster
41. 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.
Willie Nelson
Led Zeppelin
alternative music
alternative music
42. -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 -
house music
Michael Jackson
techno
Sonic Youth
43. 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
hip-hop
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Sonic Youth
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
Led Zeppelin
punk rock
hip-hop
alternative music
45. 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
Run-D.M.C.
Grandmaster Flash
Jimi Hendrix
Def Jam
46. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
Tupac Shakur
Public Enemy
soft soul
47. 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
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen
analog recording
Bruce Springsteen
48. 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).
Donna Summer
RIAA
Madonna
Dolly Parton
49. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
MP3
world music
MP3
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
50. 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
sequencer
Kenny Rogers
Grandmaster Flash