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Music Appreciation
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1. 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.
hip-hop
Michael Jackson
Napster
Paul Simon
2. 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.
M.C. Hammer
country pop
punk rock
urban folk
3. 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.
urban folk
MP3
hardcore
Madonna
4. 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
M.C. Hammer
Nirvana
5. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
soft soul
Grateful Dead
Kenny Rogers
M.C. Hammer
6. 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
house music
alternative music
country pop
Ray Charles
7. 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
psychedelic rock
progressive country
Clear channel
country pop
8. 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
hip-hop
heavy metal
bluegrass
Public Enemy
9. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
MIDI
Tupac Shakur
Ray Charles
funk music
10. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Tupac Shakur
Nirvana
Grandmaster Flash
techno
11. 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).
Vanilla Ice
Madonna
Queen Latifah
Aretha Franklin
12. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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13. 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.'
Michael Jackson
Willie Nelson
Kurt Cobain
hip-hop
14. 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
MP3
Aretha Franklin
Donna Summer
Bob Marley
15. 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.
Queen Latifah
Madonna
rap
bluegrass
16. 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
progressive country
Paul Simon
Nirvana
hip-hop
17. 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.
bluegrass
Bruce Springsteen
MIDI
Madonna
18. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Lauryn Hill
Queen Latifah
countrypolitan
Donna Summer
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
N.W.A.
synthesizer
Def Jam
Bob Marley
20. 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
alternative music
country pop
Vanilla Ice
world music
21. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
synthesizer
funk music
art rock
Grandmaster Flash
22. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
pop rock
techno
MP3
Lauryn Hill
23. 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
nashville sound
Aretha Franklin
Clear channel
Grateful Dead
24. 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
psychedelic rock
Def Jam
reggae
progressive country
25. 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).
Janis Joplin
techno
Madonna
Michael Jackson
26. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Lauryn Hill
Tupac Shakur
Patsy Cline
Clear channel
27. 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.
Ray Charles
soul music
The Ramones
alternative music
28. 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.
grunge rock
countrypolitan
soul music
Tupac Shakur
29. Device that records musical data rather than musical sound and enables the creation of repeated sound sequences (loops) - the manipulation of rhythmic grooves - and the transmission of recorded data from one program or device to another.
Janis Joplin
Grateful Dead
house music
sequencer
30. 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
Def Jam
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
psychedelic rock
31. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
RIAA
32. Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such as Elton John - Paul McCartney - Rod Stewart - Chicago - and Peter Frampton.
Vanilla Ice
nashville sound
pop rock
psychedelic rock
33. 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.
funk music
Clear channel
Napster
Kurt Cobain
34. 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.
N.W.A.
alternative rock
heavy metal
bluegrass
35. 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).
Prince
Tupac Shakur
Donna Summer
The Sex Pistols
36. 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.
Public Enemy
N.W.A.
Tupac Shakur
disco
37. 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
Michael Jackson
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
world music
David Bowie
38. 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
Prince
funk music
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
synthesizer
39. 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.
sequencer
analog recording
Napster
art rock
40. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
soft soul
Carlos Santana
rave
countrypolitan
41. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Willie Nelson
MIDI
soul music
Jimi Hendrix
42. 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.
sampling
Carlos Santana
M.C. Hammer
Queen Latifah
43. 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.
world music
Carole King
Led Zeppelin
Sonic Youth
44. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
techno
disco
Bob Marley
N.W.A.
45. 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
Madonna
The Ramones
Paul Simon
funk music
46. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Donna Summer
heavy metal
soul music
Bob Marley
47. 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
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Bob Marley
progressive country
RIAA
48. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
bluegrass
Ray Charles
progressive country
analog recording
49. 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.
M.C. Hammer
Michael Jackson
Beastie Boys
Carole King
50. 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.
house music
Def Jam
psychedelic rock
Public Enemy