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Music Appreciation
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1. 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
Sonic Youth
Tupac Shakur
techno
2. 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.
Clear channel
Grandmaster Flash
Michael Jackson
psychedelic rock
3. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
Donna Summer
nashville sound
soft soul
4. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
soft soul
sequencer
Paul Simon
heavy metal
5. 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.
Kenny Rogers
Queen Latifah
Public Enemy
nashville sound
6. Variant of hip-hop music; its emergence was heralded nationwide by the release of the album Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude). It included artists such as Snoop Doggy Dogg - 2Pac Shakur - and the Notorious B.I.G.
gangsta rap
RIAA
Beastie Boys
Patsy Cline
7. 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
gangsta rap
RIAA
N.W.A.
Peter Gabriel
8. 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
Carlos Santana
house music
The Sex Pistols
Public Enemy
9. 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
Willie Nelson
Grateful Dead
Clear channel
10. 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.'
hardcore
Willie Nelson
Public Enemy
sequencer
11. 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
The Sex Pistols
Grateful Dead
RIAA
Lauryn Hill
12. 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.
Grateful Dead
Napster
MIDI
alternative rock
13. 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
RIAA
soul music
14. Trio consisting of the MCs Run (Joseph Simmons - b. 1964) and D.M.C. (Darryl McDaniels - b. 1964) - and the DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell - b. 1965). Perhaps the most influential act in the history of rap music - they established a hard-edged - roc
Run-D.M.C.
world music
rap
techno
15. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
soul music
Kurt Cobain
Lauryn Hill
countrypolitan
16. Trio consisting of the MCs Run (Joseph Simmons - b. 1964) and D.M.C. (Darryl McDaniels - b. 1964) - and the DJ Jam Master Jay (Jason Mizell - b. 1965). Perhaps the most influential act in the history of rap music - they established a hard-edged - roc
Run-D.M.C.
analog recording
techno
Carole King
17. 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.
reggae
sampling
MP3
The Ramones
18. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
progressive country
world music
MP3
techno
19. 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.
pop rock
disco
grunge rock
Bob Marley
20. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
techno
Kenny Rogers
The Ramones
gangsta rap
21. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
grunge rock
Tupac Shakur
N.W.A.
22. 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
urban folk
M.C. Hammer
analog recording
Carlos Santana
23. 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).
MP3
heavy metal
countrypolitan
hardcore
24. 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
psychedelic rock
Public Enemy
heavy metal
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
25. 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
punk rock
Nirvana
Carlos Santana
26. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Tupac Shakur
sequencer
The Ramones
Patsy Cline
27. 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
Patsy Cline
sequencer
techno
Paul Simon
28. 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.
heavy metal
grunge rock
rap
country pop
29. 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
rave
gangsta rap
Kenny Rogers
30. '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.
Led Zeppelin
grunge rock
countrypolitan
Aretha Franklin
31. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
disco
Queen Latifah
Jimi Hendrix
rave
32. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
gangsta rap
urban folk
soft soul
Ray Charles
33. 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
psychedelic rock
Grateful Dead
Vanilla Ice
N.W.A.
34. 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
countrypolitan
Jimi Hendrix
Def Jam
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
35. 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
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
techno
pop rock
countrypolitan
36. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
David Bowie
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Prince
gangsta rap
37. 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).
Madonna
soul music
techno
urban folk
38. 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.
soul music
pop rock
Janis Joplin
MP3
39. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
sampling
Nirvana
world music
Donna Summer
40. 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
analog recording
alternative rock
alternative music
Tupac Shakur
41. 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.
world music
analog recording
Dolly Parton
Lauryn Hill
42. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Bruce Springsteen
breakdancing
Janis Joplin
psychedelic rock
43. Variant of hip-hop music; its emergence was heralded nationwide by the release of the album Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude). It included artists such as Snoop Doggy Dogg - 2Pac Shakur - and the Notorious B.I.G.
Kurt Cobain
rave
gangsta rap
synthesizer
44. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
James Brown
country pop
Willie Nelson
45. 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
Queen Latifah
art rock
countrypolitan
progressive country
46. 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
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
reggae
Queen Latifah
Kurt Cobain
47. 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.
Aretha Franklin
Grateful Dead
Queen Latifah
rap
48. Style modeled on that of the early acoustic string bands; probably the original 'alternative country' music.
heavy metal
MP3
The Sex Pistols
bluegrass
49. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
hardcore
soul music
M.C. Hammer
reggae
50. 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.
reggae
MP3
Janis Joplin
hardcore