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Music Appreciation
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Madonna
techno
Patsy Cline
The Sex Pistols
2. 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
Paul Simon
countrypolitan
Sonic Youth
Prince
3. 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.'
Willie Nelson
Michael Jackson
house music
Patsy Cline
4. 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
David Bowie
Def Jam
Peter Gabriel
alternative music
5. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
art rock
techno
Donna Summer
Lauryn Hill
6. 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
world music
soul music
synthesizer
7. 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.
Bruce Springsteen
psychedelic rock
Led Zeppelin
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
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
Kurt Cobain
Kenny Rogers
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Public Enemy
9. 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
Dolly Parton
psychedelic rock
Clear channel
Carole King
10. 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.
MP3
disco
alternative rock
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
11. Country vocalist who scored crossover hits with songs such as 'I Fall to Pieces -' and 'Crazy -' both recorded in 1961.
Patsy Cline
Tupac Shakur
M.C. Hammer
Nirvana
12. Style of electronic dance music that originated in the Detroit area during the 1980s.
house music
sequencer
grunge rock
techno
13. 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.
Kenny Rogers
Ray Charles
sampling
Kurt Cobain
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.
MIDI
Led Zeppelin
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Clear channel
15. 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
RIAA
synthesizer
Grateful Dead
funk music
16. 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.
Patsy Cline
Bruce Springsteen
rap
Paul Simon
17. 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.
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
psychedelic rock
N.W.A.
rap
18. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
world music
soft soul
psychedelic rock
Grateful Dead
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.
countrypolitan
heavy metal
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
20. 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.
urban folk
disco
Bob Marley
techno
21. 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
Bruce Springsteen
Peter Gabriel
techno
22. 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.
Led Zeppelin
analog recording
The Ramones
23. 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.
Jimi Hendrix
Aretha Franklin
Bruce Springsteen
Clear channel
24. Acrobatic solo dancing improvised by the young 'B-boys' who attended hip-hop dances.
Public Enemy
M.C. Hammer
breakdancing
house music
25. 'Glam rock' pioneer who established the character of Ziggy Stardust.
Prince
David Bowie
Carlos Santana
disco
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.
punk rock
sampling
rap
Donna Summer
27. 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
James Brown
progressive country
Vanilla Ice
28. 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
funk music
Kurt Cobain
Carole King
29. 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.
Paul Simon
grunge rock
Jimi Hendrix
30. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
Ray Charles
progressive country
MP3
N.W.A.
31. African American musical style rooted in R&B and gospel that became popular during the 1960s.
soul music
Tupac Shakur
N.W.A.
Prince
32. 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
Janis Joplin
synthesizer
sampling
reggae
33. 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.
heavy metal
Beastie Boys
Bob Marley
Clear channel
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
RIAA
alternative music
Public Enemy
Ray Charles
35. 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.
Public Enemy
Bruce Springsteen
sequencer
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
36. 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.
MIDI
Kurt Cobain
Peter Gabriel
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
37. 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
sequencer
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
Kenny Rogers
Carole King
38. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
country pop
Paul Simon
RIAA
Run-D.M.C.
39. 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.
Public Enemy
Carole King
Vanilla Ice
urban folk
40. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
MIDI
grunge rock
world music
RIAA
41. 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
urban folk
urban folk
house music
analog recording
42. DJ and leader of the furious five - he developed many of the turntable techniques that characterized early hip-hop music.
Grandmaster Flash
Queen Latifah
synthesizer
Run-D.M.C.
43. 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
Janis Joplin
hardcore
Public Enemy
punk rock
44. 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.
Tupac Shakur
bluegrass
Madonna
MIDI
45. 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.
The Ramones
funk music
Kenny Rogers
The Sex Pistols
46. 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.
house music
Tupac Shakur
rave
Nirvana
47. 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
Clear channel
reggae
hardcore
sequencer
48. 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.
psychedelic rock
Carlos Santana
Beastie Boys
Madonna
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.
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
hip-hop
Patsy Cline
M.C. Hammer
50. 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
hip-hop
psychedelic rock
nashville sound
gangsta rap