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Music Appreciation
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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.
funk music
Patsy Cline
Lauryn Hill
Carole King
2. Slick variety of rhythm & blues - often with lush orchestral accompaniment: the O'Jays - the Spinners - Al Green - Barry White.
soft soul
sampling
Bruce Springsteen
hip-hop
3. 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
Kenny Rogers
Prince
analog recording
Madonna
4. 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).
Kurt Cobain
breakdancing
hardcore
alternative music
5. 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.
alternative rock
Kenny Rogers
Madonna
synthesizer
6. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
Carole King
M.C. Hammer
Kurt Cobain
7. 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.
The Sex Pistols
Lauryn Hill
Beastie Boys
Sonic Youth
8. 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
pop rock
Kenny Rogers
Public Enemy
9. 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
soul music
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
house music
Tupac Shakur
10. 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
Peter Gabriel
house music
urban folk
Bob Marley
11. Variant of MPEG; MP3 enables sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size.
Janis Joplin
house music
MP3
Carole King
12. 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
Beastie Boys
Madonna
The Sex Pistols
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
13. 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.'
grunge rock
M.C. Hammer
country pop
Willie Nelson
14. 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.
hardcore
Patsy Cline
rap
Bruce Springsteen
15. 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
Patsy Cline
Dolly Parton
grunge rock
16. 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.
The Sex Pistols
techno
world music
Public Enemy
17. 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
breakdancing
punk rock
Grandmaster Flash
progressive country
18. 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.
house music
heavy metal
soul music
disco
19. 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.
Michael Jackson
pop rock
Grateful Dead
Tupac Shakur
20. The 'Godfather of Soul.' He was known for his acrobatic physicality and remarkable charisma on stage. No other single musician has proven to be as influential on the sound and style of black music as James Brown.
James Brown
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Madonna
Napster
21. 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.
funk music
Run-D.M.C.
M.C. Hammer
MIDI
22. 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
gangsta rap
N.W.A.
punk rock
M.C. Hammer
23. Device that standardized digital technologies - enabling devices produced by different manufacturers to 'communicate' with one another.
Run-D.M.C.
grunge rock
MIDI
Tupac Shakur
24. CEO of the New York independent label Bad Boy Records.
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25. '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.
MP3
Tupac Shakur
Donna Summer
Aretha Franklin
26. 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.
funk music
M.C. Hammer
art rock
soft soul
27. '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.
Donna Summer
The Sex Pistols
David Bowie
Aretha Franklin
28. 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.
breakdancing
grunge rock
Kenny Rogers
heavy metal
29. 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.
reggae
Janis Joplin
psychedelic rock
disco
30. 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
Lauryn Hill
sequencer
heavy metal
31. A style of soft rock - lightly tinged with country music influences: John Denver - Olivia Newton-John - Kenny Rogers.
hardcore
Kenny Rogers
heavy metal
country pop
32. One of the main venues for techno. Semipublic event modeled partly on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture.
rave
Queen Latifah
heavy metal
reggae
33. 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
Led Zeppelin
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
funk music
David Bowie
34. 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.
David Bowie
Clear channel
country pop
Carlos Santana
35. 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
rap
N.W.A.
Paul Simon
Def Jam
36. 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.
Grandmaster Flash
art rock
techno
Andre (Dr. Dre) Young
37. 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.
Public Enemy
Carole King
disco
RIAA
38. 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
Sean 'Puffy' Combs
Carole King
progressive country
39. 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
Run-D.M.C.
Sonic Youth
pop rock
40. 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.
Def Jam
sampling
James Brown
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.
countrypolitan
progressive country
Jimi Hendrix
Dolly Parton
42. 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.
Nirvana
punk rock
analog recording
bluegrass
43. 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
progressive country
Paul Simon
Kenny Rogers
Def Jam
44. Known as the 'Genius of Soul'; songwriter - arranger - keyboard player - and vocalist fluent in R&B - jazz - and mainstream pop.
soul music
Ray Charles
techno
Lauryn Hill
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.
progressive country
Carole King
rave
Kenny Rogers
46. 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).
Public Enemy
MIDI
Grateful Dead
Donna Summer
47. 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
Patsy Cline
Michael Jackson
Ray Charles
sequencer
48. Genre that developed out of hard rock in the 1970s and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s.
Dolly Parton
sequencer
gangsta rap
heavy metal
49. Band that originated in the 1960s San Francisco rock scene. Their career spanned more than three decades.
heavy metal
Led Zeppelin
Grateful Dead
N.W.A.
50. 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
alternative rock
Snoop Doggy Dogg (Calvin Broadus)
The Sex Pistols
nashville sound
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