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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. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
Sonic Youth
house music
techno
Bob Marley
2. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
soft soul
country pop
sampling
Carlos Santana
3. 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.
Willie Nelson
Dolly Parton
hardcore
Clear channel
4. 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
Ray Charles
Bob Marley
Napster
5. 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
alternative rock
Clear channel
Napster
Carole King
6. 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.
Kenny Rogers
alternative music
funk music
James Brown
7. 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.
James Brown
David Bowie
Carlos Santana
psychedelic rock
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.
Napster
urban folk
analog recording
Queen Latifah
9. 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.
world music
heavy metal
punk rock
Grateful Dead
10. 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.
countrypolitan
urban folk
Carole King
Grandmaster Flash
11. 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
Dolly Parton
reggae
psychedelic rock
The Sex Pistols
12. 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
Prince
Clear channel
breakdancing
Tupac Shakur
13. 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
Kurt Cobain
house music
Dolly Parton
14. 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.
rave
Janis Joplin
bluegrass
pop rock
15. 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
Donna Summer
sampling
reggae
16. 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
rave
Public Enemy
alternative rock
Paul Simon
17. 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
nashville sound
Donna Summer
Prince
18. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Carole King
countrypolitan
Queen Latifah
breakdancing
19. 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
Napster
Carlos Santana
Clear channel
20. 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.
psychedelic rock
The Ramones
Paul Simon
Michael Jackson
21. 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.
Led Zeppelin
progressive country
hip-hop
Bob Marley
22. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
MP3
progressive country
art rock
23. 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
nashville sound
Michael Jackson
punk rock
24. 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
Beastie Boys
grunge rock
The Ramones
hip-hop
25. 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.
rap
art rock
Willie Nelson
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
26. 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.
Carole King
Michael Jackson
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
The Ramones
27. 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.'
M.C. Hammer
Willie Nelson
grunge rock
Ray Charles
28. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
breakdancing
Janis Joplin
Grateful Dead
MP3
29. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Janis Joplin
alternative rock
Janis Joplin
Patsy Cline
30. 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
The Sex Pistols
alternative music
world music
Run-D.M.C.
31. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
countrypolitan
MIDI
Michael Jackson
Kurt Cobain
32. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
RIAA
Clear channel
breakdancing
The Sex Pistols
33. 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
soft soul
techno
synthesizer
progressive country
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.
country pop
Madonna
M.C. Hammer
Queen Latifah
35. 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
rap
synthesizer
alternative music
36. -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 -
N.W.A.
heavy metal
N.W.A.
Sonic Youth
37. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
progressive country
M.C. Hammer
38. 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.
sequencer
Grandmaster Flash
Sonic Youth
Beastie Boys
39. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
James Brown
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Grandmaster Flash
urban folk
40. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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41. 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.
Run-D.M.C.
Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Springsteen
Napster
42. 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
Willie Nelson
Tupac Shakur
analog recording
RIAA
43. 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.
bluegrass
nashville sound
Tupac Shakur
hardcore
44. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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45. 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.
Carole King
hip-hop
Dolly Parton
soul music
46. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
synthesizer
funk music
Carlos Santana
Grateful Dead
47. 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
Def Jam
Ray Charles
reggae
Peter Gabriel
48. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
techno
Paul Simon
synthesizer
funk music
49. 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
breakdancing
Michael Jackson
RIAA
punk rock
50. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
house music
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
hip-hop
heavy metal