KSU Music 245, Exam 3 Chapters 13-17

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton

1926-1984; us rythm and blues singer "Hound Dog"

Woody Guthrie

American songwriter and folksinger who flourished in the 1930s, writing numerous songs about social injustice and the hardships of the Great Depression years; two of his best-remembered songs are "This Land is Your Land" and "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh."

________which began as discothèque in France after World War II, may be seen as the result of a romance or a clash between the popular cultures of Europe and America, and between the social elite and the cultural underworld.

Disco

T/F In commercial theater 4 of 5 productions successfully pay back their initial investments

False

T/F: The term new wave always referred to music that combined country themes with the instrumentation of rock and roll

False

The Beach Boys

Founded in California in 1961, they popularized the "California sound" in the early 1960s. Their hit songs included "Surfin' Safari," "Surfer Girl," "California Girls," "Surfin' USA" and "Good Vibrations." Album- Pet Sounds

Who among the following was largely credited for the eventual great success of musical comedies in the twentieth-century?

George M. Cohan

Whose Broadway career began while they were a teenager- the point they were best at writing individual songs

Irving Berlin

Identify an accurate statement about jazz music during the 1960s.

Jazz musicians placed less emphasis on solo performances accompanied by players who yielded the spotlight until their turn came to take it.

Bernstein adapted his early musical On the Town from a ballet he had written still earlier; and the ballet's famous choreographer, _____, participated in directing the new musical.

Jerome Robbins

What was the outcome of the dominance of rock and roll in the popular music market after World War II?

Record sales for traditional country music decreased and radio listeners vanished.

How did jazz-rock-fusion music evolve in the 1970s?

Recording technology acquired unprecedented importance for jazz musicians.

In 1962, having replaced their early drummer Pete Best with the already popular _____, the Beatles shared a London performance with Little Richard, recently returned to rock and roll, and became an overnight sensation

Ringo Starr

Punk- Genre

Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock. They created fast, hard-edged music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political, anti-establishment lyrics.

Jazz Rock Fusion- Genre

Style which combines the jazz musicians improvisatory approach with rock rhythms and tone colors; developed in the 1960's.

Improved communication and expanded travel aided by the new technology _____.

bring new sounds to the Western vernacular music experience

Huddie Ledbetter joined Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and other prominent musicians in the urban folk revival movement due to his _____.

fervor for civil rights

New York Dolls

first punk group, aggressive stage shows, crossed sexual norms

A feature of an iPod is that _____.

it is compact, elegant, and extremely portable

Jazz pianist, composer, and scholar Billy Taylor refers to _____, in fact, as America's classical music.

jazz

Hip Hop- Genre

music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (or samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics, male boasting, and comic lyrics carried forward from blues, R&B, soul, and rock and roll

T/F: Gosepel's virtuoso instrumentalists blend jazz, rock, country, funk, and hip-hop gestures; and gospel choral singing, full throated and dramatic, is a thrilling sound.

True

Motown- Genre

style of music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the late 1960's. The Sound was a mixture of several popular musical styles and can be considered a form of soul music.

Bob Dylan switched from urban folk to folk rock in 1965, replacing _____.

the acoustic instruments of his early days with an electric guitar and a rock rhythm section.

Jamaican DJs (disc jockeys) used to entertain crowds by maintaining a steady stream of patter as they changed records, even talking over the records as they spun. The technique is referred to as _____.

toasting

An accurate statement about the doo-wop ensembles such as the Mills Brothers and Ink Spots is that

they had subtle rhythmic backgrounds sung to nonsense syllables.

Most popular by far of all the musical shows representative of the period leading up to and succeeding the Civil War were minstrel shows, but before the turn of the century _____ rivaled minstrelsy in popularity.

vaudeville

An accurate fact about the hit records produced by Motown under the guidance of Berry Gordy, Jr. is that they

were produced efficiently.

Elvis Presley

1950s; a symbol of the rock-and-roll movement of the 50s when teenagers began to form their own subculture, dismaying to conservative parents; created a youth culture that ridiculed phony and pretentious middle-class Americans, celebrated uninhibited sexuality and spontaneity; foreshadowed the coming counterculture of the 1960s

Reggae- Genre

A style of music that developed in Jamaica in the 1960s and is rooted in African, Caribbean, and American music, often dealing with social problems and religion.

Bob Dylan

A twentieth-century American folksinger and songwriter. His music, with its strong note of social protest, was especially popular during the 1960s, when he wrote songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are A-Changin'," and "Like a Rolling Stone."

Which of the following rock stars pointed rock in a new direction in 1982 with the album Born in the U.S.A?

Bruce Springsteen

_____, or the blending of jazz and various other musics, seemed particularly characteristic of the 1980s.

Crossover jazz

Identify an example of a musical book show

European operetta

Identify an accurate statement about Henry Threadgill.

He is a multi-instrumentalist who travels and performs with gospel musicians and blues bands principally playing saxophone and flute.

Identify an accurate statement about Alan Freed's contribution toward rock and roll.

He realized that many white teens preferred rhythm-and-blues hits to mainstream popular music.

Identify an accurate statement about Woody Guthrie.

He was determined that only by banding together could common people survive.

Identify accurate statements about Tony Pastor.

He worked as a comic singer before forming his own theater and touring companies while his family-friendly shows eventually came to be known as vaudeville.

Herbie Hancock's album _____ (1973) became the first jazz album to be certified gold and remained for a time the best-selling of all jazz albums.

Headhunters

Bill Haley and the Comets

Influential rock 'n' roll band influenced by western swing music who recorded the first number one rock 'n' roll hit "Rock around the Clock."

Identify an accurate statement about psychedelic rock music

It began in San Francisco, around 1965, as an attempt to reproduce the sensations experienced by someone under the influence of LSD.

What show was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe but considered by Rodgers and Hammerstein as completely unsuitable for adaptation as a musical?

My Fair Lady

In 1960, _____ introduced free collective improvisation in an album titled Free Jazz, which defied the perception of jazz as generally accessible to the ordinary listener.

Ornette Coleman

Who formed the folk group called the Weavers that was dedicated to preserve the tradition of political-activist protest songs?

Pete Seeger

Identify an accurate statement about the changes in popular music after WW2.

Popular music increasingly diversified, generally moving away from instrumental music back to song.

Which of the following genres of music fused characteristics of North American rock and of African music with elements drawn from a black religious movement called Rastafarianism?

Reggae

Identify an accurate statement about the 1970s.

This decade experienced a comeback of swing which remains strong today.

Give a true statement about no wave or noise style of music that gained popularity in the 1990s

This style of seeks the emancipation of noise through short isolated sound events.

Jimi Hendrix

United States guitarist whose innovative style with electric guitars influenced the development of rock music (1942-1970)

Which of the following types of musicians were performing folklike music in a polished, suave manner designed to appeal to fans of popular music?

Urban folk musicians

Who is the creator of the modern jazz organ?

Wild Bill Davis

_____ wrote the music for In Dahomey (1903), the first all-black musical show to play in a major Broadway theater.

Will Marion Cook

The term _____ refers to the preference of some country musicians to express country concepts in progressive ways.

alternative country

By 1965, urban folk singers started addressing rock audiences, reflecting the serious new mood by blending light rock effects with tuneful melodies and protest lyrics in what became known as _____.

folk rock

The musical genre called _____ combined the aggression of heavy metal with a melodic element reminiscent of the Beatles.

grunge

Jerome Kern's musical comedy Show Boat

had an integrated plot on a novel by an established literary figure, Edna Ferber

Much in the way that slavery gave birth to the blues, jobless, poor, and hopeless urban conditions spawned the _____ culture.

hip hop

The _____ investigations of 1559 to 1960 which revealed that disc jockeys were routinely accepting money and gifts for playing certain records, tarnished even the popular Dick Clark and virtually destroyed Alan Freed.

payola

In the 1970s, _____ evolved from the raw, raucous garage band music of the 1960s and from the New York City avant-garde scene.

punk

In 1949, the industry trade journal Billboard abandoned the offensive term race records, grouping all the popular music intended for a black audience under the term _____, and for several years that was the phrase generally applied to black popular music.

rhythm and blues

In the backdrop of protests against discrimination, authoritarianism, and the Vietnam war, the vivid new music replacing the carefree early rock and roll was collectively called_____ , of which many and diverse branches or brands evolved.

rock

Grunge- Genre

rock music that takes the spirit of punk and infuses it with more attention to melody

Surfing Songs

songs by the Beach Boys and other groups reflecting the easy California lifestyle

Frank Loesser's musical comedy Most Happy Fella was criticized because

the play requires highly trained voices and a full orchestra leaving many feeling that the show was more at home in the opera house than on the Broadway stage.

Urban Folk Revival

the postwar embrace of traditional music by people outside the communities in which it originated.

Woody Guthrie set many of his songs that expressed his opinion of injustice and inequality in American society to _____.

traditional folk and religious tunes

Hard Bop- Genre

was a reaction to cool jazz that returned to the earthier roots of blues, gospel, and rhythm and blues. The instrumentation typically included trumpet, tenor saxophone, and a rhythm section of piano, double bass, and drums. It had a heavier sound and simpler melodic lines and harmonies than in bebop.

Janis Joplin

white, female soul singer (expressive rough style). Died of heroin overdose

Patter Song

whole bunch of lyrics sung together very quickly. Example: A Model of a Very Modern Major General