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Music Appreciation
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performing-arts
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1. 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
Grandmaster Flash
Public Enemy
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
2. 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
Bob Marley
Queen Latifah
Run-D.M.C.
Michael Jackson
3. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
art rock
alternative music
synthesizer
4. 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.
pop rock
Prince
Grandmaster Flash
Kurt Cobain
5. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
Patsy Cline
country pop
techno
Peter Gabriel
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
The Ramones
Queen Latifah
Clear channel
7. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
gangsta rap
country pop
Ray Charles
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
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
synthesizer
Lauryn Hill
Grateful Dead
9. 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.
Run-D.M.C.
funk music
M.C. Hammer
Ray Charles
10. 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
house music
Carole King
hip-hop
Willie Nelson
11. 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
Ray Charles
soul music
country pop
RIAA
12. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
bluegrass
Napster
Grandmaster Flash
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
13. 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
Michael Jackson
Run-D.M.C.
Donna Summer
psychedelic rock
14. '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.
Aretha Franklin
Carole King
Peter Gabriel
Carlos Santana
15. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
MIDI
synthesizer
Napster
gangsta rap
16. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
Grateful Dead
soul music
grunge rock
sampling
17. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
MP3
Clear channel
Kurt Cobain
Janis Joplin
18. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
art rock
hardcore
Jimi Hendrix
soft soul
19. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
countrypolitan
Bruce Springsteen
Patsy Cline
Carlos Santana
20. 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.
sequencer
Janis Joplin
Public Enemy
Michael Jackson
21. 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).
Carlos Santana
country pop
country pop
Madonna
22. 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.
alternative rock
disco
breakdancing
N.W.A.
23. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Madonna
funk music
David Bowie
soul music
24. 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
rap
disco
Aretha Franklin
house music
25. 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.
hardcore
Queen Latifah
heavy metal
house music
26. 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.
Vanilla Ice
rap
soft soul
Napster
27. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
MIDI
Grateful Dead
Patsy Cline
progressive country
28. 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
disco
nashville sound
Prince
bluegrass
29. 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
hip-hop
Michael Jackson
MP3
bluegrass
30. 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
Michael Jackson
MP3
Peter Gabriel
house music
31. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
world music
hardcore
heavy metal
M.C. Hammer
32. 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.
Napster
Janis Joplin
N.W.A.
hip-hop
33. 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
Willie Nelson
funk music
Ray Charles
34. 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
Paul Simon
disco
disco
Bruce Springsteen
35. 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
reggae
Tupac Shakur
sequencer
disco
36. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
Grateful Dead
breakdancing
Prince
David Bowie
37. Sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music; a fusion of 'country' and 'cosmopolitan.'
Carole King
soft soul
countrypolitan
punk rock
38. 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.
Dolly Parton
Beastie Boys
Kenny Rogers
The Sex Pistols
39. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
synthesizer
Kenny Rogers
progressive country
40. 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
Carlos Santana
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Willie Nelson
41. 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
techno
punk rock
Queen Latifah
Public Enemy
42. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grandmaster Flash
Sonic Youth
Jimi Hendrix
Beastie Boys
43. Kurt KObain's band - Nevermind album
analog recording
Nirvana
psychedelic rock
MIDI
44. 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
Tupac Shakur
Paul Simon
Kurt Cobain
45. 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.
punk rock
The Sex Pistols
house music
sampling
46. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
The Ramones
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
techno
hip-hop
47. -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 -
Clear channel
Def Jam
Sonic Youth
rave
48. 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.
techno
Queen Latifah
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Beastie Boys
49. 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.
techno
Carlos Santana
MP3
Led Zeppelin
50. 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
progressive country
Beastie Boys
progressive country
Peter Gabriel