MUSI+1310+Final+Exam+Review
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MUSI 1310 Final Exam Review
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Question: How can country blues be distinguished from city, or classic, blues?
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Answer: Irregularity of form and the singing styles and rhythms associated with fields and work gangs.
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Question: What technological advances helped independent record labels survive in the post-World War II era of music?
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Answer: Tape recording, the transistor, and the introduction of 33 and 45 RPM records.
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Question: Why was R & B considered unsuitable for the mainstream market during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s?
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Answer: Due to its insistent rhythm, lack of radio airtime, and suggestive content.
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Question: What does "Payola" or "pay-for-play" refer to prior to the #MeToo movement?
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Answer: The longstanding practice of offering financial, sexual, or other inducements in exchange for record promotion.
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Question: What are the three great eras in American popular music?
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Answer: 1. The years dominated by writers and publishers of Tin Pan Alley2. The emergence of post-WWII genres through media3. The streaming music era.
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Question: Who were two influential figures at the beginning of the radio industry and during the rise of the recording industry?
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Answer: David Sarnoff of RCA Victor and William S. Paley of Columbia Records.
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Question: What did Smokey Robinson understand about the Top 40 Format?
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Answer: To achieve regular airplay, a song should be 2-3 minutes in length.
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Question: What was the "message music" of the 60s, exemplified by artists like Bob Dylan or the Mama’s and the Papa’s?
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Answer: Folk and folk-rock.
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Question: Which three groups were part of the First British Invasion?
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Answer: The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones.
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Question: Although some consider the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds the first "concept" album, what is the more accepted album?
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Answer: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Question: What 1969 festival took place at Max Yasgur’s farm?
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Answer: The Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
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Question: “Shaft” by Isaac Hayes is an example of what?
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Answer: “Blaxploitation” movie themes popular in the 70s.
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Question: What is the term for the fusion of European artistic sensibilities with rock instruments and sound?
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Answer: Art rock.
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Question: What late 70s music style rejected the “peace and love” ethos of the 60s?
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Answer: Heavy metal.
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Question: What musical genre is fundamental to androgyny, a term from Greek meaning man and woman?
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Answer: Glam, or glitter, rock.
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Question: What does the name CBGB, the club that launched punk bands, actually stand for?
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Answer: Country, Bluegrass, and Blues.
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Question: What was the first video shown on MTV?
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Answer: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles on August 1, 1981.
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Question: What was the first charity rock project, though Americans remember a different one?
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Answer: “Do They Know It’s Christmas” by Boomtown Rats, while most recall “We Are the World,” written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones.
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Question: What was jazz pianist Herbie Hancock’s breakout hit in 1982?
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Answer: “Rockit,” which used robotics and record scratching to match its album title, Future Shock.
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Question: What was the top-selling album of all time until recently, now surpassed by a greatest hits collection?
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Answer: Thriller by Michael Jackson, produced by Quincy Jones.
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Question: What is the song “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy an example of?
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Answer: East Coast Rap.
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Question: Which band’s lead singer became the “voice of a generation” with “Smells Like Teen Spirit”?
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Answer: Nirvana, marking one of the first grunge (or post-punk) songs.
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Question: What criticism was directed at the recording industry in the 90s and early 2000s regarding R&B music?
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Answer: There was too much emphasis (and financial investment) on superstar performers like Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston and their hit singles.
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Question: How did late 90s groups find success in pop music?
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Answer: By harnessing “rave” energy to generate wider pop appeal.
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Question: Why was 1996 termed pop music’s “Year of the Woman”?
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Answer: Due to the simultaneous success of many female artists; a similar sweep occurred in 1999 at the Grammy Awards.
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Question: How did major successful rap artists in the 1990s function within the industry?
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Answer: They often fulfilled multiple roles, including performing artist, writer, producer, and label head.
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Question: What popular movie featuring a soundtrack by country artists was starring John Travolta and Debra Winger?
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Answer: Urban Cowboy.
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Question: What theme song did Dolly Parton use for a movie and hit Broadway musical about workplace sexual harassment?
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Answer: “9 to 5.”
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Question: What movement in country music emerged in the late 1980s in response to the notion that country music was "dead" in 1985?
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Answer: The