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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Run-D.M.C.
Clear channel
grunge rock
art rock
2. 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.
Queen Latifah
Bob Marley
Grateful Dead
sampling
3. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Lauryn Hill
Bruce Springsteen
heavy metal
Madonna
4. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
disco
world music
techno
hip-hop
5. 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
Kenny Rogers
Janis Joplin
synthesizer
6. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
alternative rock
Aretha Franklin
countrypolitan
country pop
7. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
Janis Joplin
Sonic Youth
nashville sound
hardcore
8. Device that enables musicians to create or 'synthesize' musical sounds. Began to appear on rock records during the early 1970s.
Kurt Cobain
Napster
synthesizer
The Sex Pistols
9. 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
The Sex Pistols
Bob Marley
Patsy Cline
Paul Simon
10. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
Bruce Springsteen
country pop
Dolly Parton
11. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
Run-D.M.C.
soft soul
heavy metal
Def Jam
12. The most original - inventive - and influential guitarist of the rock era - and the most prominent African American rock musician of the late 1960s.
Jimi Hendrix
Donna Summer
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
funk music
13. 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).
breakdancing
Public Enemy
hardcore
Grateful Dead
14. 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.
punk rock
RIAA
Led Zeppelin
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
Kurt Cobain
analog recording
soft soul
Queen Latifah
16. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
Donna Summer
Vanilla Ice
Madonna
17. 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.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
punk rock
James Brown
Grateful Dead
18. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
reggae
psychedelic rock
Patsy Cline
19. Country music style involving polished arrangements and a sophisticated approach to vocal presentation. The recordings of Patsy Cline were among the most important manifestations of the Nashville sound.
nashville sound
techno
rap
Beastie Boys
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
RIAA
MP3
James Brown
Public Enemy
21. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Grateful Dead
Tupac Shakur
heavy metal
art rock
22. 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
progressive country
analog recording
breakdancing
Beastie Boys
23. -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 -
art rock
Sonic Youth
Kenny Rogers
heavy metal
24. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Run-D.M.C.
rap
breakdancing
art rock
25. 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.
nashville sound
The Sex Pistols
hardcore
Bob Marley
26. 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
Public Enemy
Patsy Cline
heavy metal
Def Jam
27. 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.
Prince
art rock
country pop
Kenny Rogers
28. 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.
Queen Latifah
MIDI
reggae
Carlos Santana
29. 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
MP3
reggae
Madonna
house music
30. 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).
Bob Marley
hardcore
James Brown
nashville sound
31. 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.
synthesizer
soft soul
alternative rock
urban folk
32. 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.
Donna Summer
Beastie Boys
Sonic Youth
The Ramones
33. 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.
Janis Joplin
Napster
Peter Gabriel
34. 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
Clear channel
alternative music
Bruce Springsteen
Grateful Dead
35. 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.
Clear channel
alternative music
sampling
Paul Simon
36. 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
soft soul
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Prince
soul music
37. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
The Sex Pistols
bluegrass
urban folk
Grateful Dead
38. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grateful Dead
Queen Latifah
Grandmaster Flash
country pop
39. 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
funk music
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
Carlos Santana
Michael Jackson
40. 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.'
Clear channel
pop rock
Willie Nelson
sequencer
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
countrypolitan
Public Enemy
rave
Queen Latifah
42. 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
countrypolitan
Def Jam
Aretha Franklin
Prince
43. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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44. 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
alternative rock
reggae
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
45. Heterogeneous category that includes artists from Africa - the Near East - and Asia—the ultimate margins of the American music industry.
Jimi Hendrix
rave
world music
rap
46. 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
Grateful Dead
progressive country
Prince
RIAA
47. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
art rock
soul music
psychedelic rock
Patsy Cline
48. 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.
David Bowie
Janis Joplin
world music
analog recording
49. 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.
N.W.A.
progressive country
Bruce Springsteen
soul music
50. 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.
Peter Gabriel
MP3
art rock
Grandmaster Flash