Survey of Pop Music - Ch 13 Study Guide
Which song by Peter Gabriel featured an eye-catching, technically innovative video combining stop-motion techniques, live action, and unusual footage, like enlarged microscopic images of human sperm cells impregnating an egg?
"Sledgehammer"
Which early 1980s hit by the Eurythmics featured androgynous singer Annie Lennox, a booming steady pulse, overdubbed harmonies, and hints of a darkly sadomasochistic relationship?
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
_______ recording, unlike analog recording, led to the invention of the CD, as it takes sound waves and breaks them down into a stream of numbers (0s and 1s).
Digital
Which recording process samples sound waves and breaks them down into a stream of 0s and 1s?
Digital recording
Madonna's mega-success in the popular music realm can be attributed to the fact that she was born into a wealthy and highly influential family that provided support for all her artistic endeavors along the duration of her long career.
False
On his album Thriller, Michael Jackson worked with veteran producer Berry Gordy to create an album that achieved boundary-crossing popularity.
False
Synth-pop is the first type of popular music explicitly defined by its blending of acoustic folk idioms and jazz-rock sounds.
False
The successful pop song, "_______," was written by Lionel Richie, and later performed by Kenny Rogers in 1980, topping the charts in the adult contemporary genre.
Lady
Which cable television network debuted in 1981 and changed the way the music industry operated?
MTV
Who debuted the "moonwalk" at a Motown reunion concert in 1983?
Michael Jackson
In the 1980s _______, a new television-based format for popular music, forever changed the way the music industry operated, rapidly becoming the preferred method for launching a new act or promoting the latest release.
Music Television; MTV
Which is true about the music industry in the 1980s?
Sales of pre-recorded cassettes first surpassed those of vinyl discs.
Why did Philip Bashe, an expert on heavy metal music, describe the song "Jump" as "a brave test of the Van Halen audience's loyalty"?
The song's main instrumental melody is played on a synthesizer.
Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. is a roots-based rock album that depicts adult working-class Americans whose better days are behind them.
True
Kenny Rogers was a Texas-born veteran of folk pop groups and one of the main beneficiaries of country pop's increasing mainstream appeal.
True
Michael Jackson's mega hit album Thriller (1982) forced a change in MTV's all-white rock music format.
True
One of the results of the rise in technology during 1980s that revolutionized the industry was the invention of the CD (compact disc), in which the sounds that are encoded are read by a laser beam and are not subject to the same wear and tear as vinyl.
True
Paul Simon's Graceland can be considered a "global" album in that it was recorded in five different locations on three different continents.
True
Pop superstar Prince was one of the most prolific artists of the 1980s—he composed, performed, and recorded more than 75 songs each year, and produced an average of over an album per year.
True
For which of the following is Eddie Van Halen known?
Virtuosic heavy metal guitar playing.
The sounds of _______ machines were ubiquitous on 1980s dance music and rap recordings, and they relied on electronic pads that can be struck and activated by the performer.
drum
The technology that led to the invention of synthesizers, keyboards, samplers and sequencers in the 1980s was not available for drum machines until well into the 1990s.
false
The musical form of many pop songs composed in the 1980s followed the basic verse and _______ structure—a throwback to pre-rock era of soft and sentimental song style.
refrain; chorus
