Music Appreciation Exam 4

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) initially targeted which genre before shifting focus to rap?

Heavy Metal

Which technology was commonly used in the 1980s to create distorted guitar sounds for heavy metal?

Amplifiers with distortion effects and guitar pedals

The fast, virtuosic guitar playing style in heavy metal, popularized by Eddie Van Halen and others, was known as:

Shredding

AC/DC’s Back in Black was dedicated to which former lead singer?

Bon Scott

Def Leppard’s “metal pop” or “lite metal” style was promoted heavily through which platform in the early 1980s?

MTV

Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast was controversial for its:

Occult themes

MTV’s Headbangers’ Ball premiered in which year?

1986

Which band is considered the best-selling speed/thrash metal group, known for Master of Puppets and Enter Sandman?

Metallica

DJ Kool Herc is credited with pioneering which technique?

Breakbeat music

Which Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five song was the first prominent hip hop track to provide lyrical social commentary?

The Message

“Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang famously used the instrumental track from which disco hit?

Good times by Chic

Which group’s Straight Outta Comptonbecame one of the first multi-platinum gangsta rap albums without radio play

NWA

Which female rapper released Ladies First in 1989 and became known as a pioneer feminist voice in hip hop?

Queen Latifah

Mary J. Blige is often called the:

Queen of Hip Hop Soul

MC Hammer’s hit “U Can’t Touch This” sampled which 1981 funk song?

Super Freak by Rick James