MUS137 quiz2-5
Which of these songs did Big Mama Thornton record before Elvis Presley:
"Hound Dog"
Which of the following best describes the music industry in the 1970s:
A small number of major labels controlled nearly the whole market, and the market was larger than it had ever been before, but it was also increasingly risky
Which of the following describes Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound" style?
Deeply layered sounds, each one of which is carefully engineered
Which of these technologies DID NOT play a role in changing ideas about the recording as a work of art in the 1970s
Digital recording and sound editing
Which of the following genres does the author of "The Confessions of a Gay Rocker" say drew the gay audience instead of rock?
Disco
Which of these effects is most apparent on Elvis's Sun recordings, such as "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
Echo
Which of the following artists played on Michael Jackson's album Thriller?
Eddie Van Halen
Which of the following is NOT indicative of one or another direction in prog rock?
Extreme distortion
True or False: MTV created the idea of showing music clips on television.
False
True or False: punk rock originated in London and then came to New York.
False
The emergence of distinct subgenres in rock in the 1970s was prefigured by
Fan identification with either the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, but not both in the later 1960s
Which of the following is true about Black Sabbath?
It was likely the first band to play exclusively heavy metal
How did Vincent Furnier extend the idea of rock theatricality
Performed and recorded consistently in the character of Alice Cooper for decades
Which of the following was NOT overseen by Berry Gordy as part of Motown's vertical integration:
Point of sale to customers
Which of these did Elvis say he would like to sing if rock and roll fell out of fashion:
Pop ballads
Which other artist, besides Michael Jackson, was responsible for incorporating rock alongside other genres in the album Thriller?
Quincy Jones
Which of the following does Christgau say about repetition in Chuck Berry's rock and roll:
Repetition without tedium is its backbone
Which of these is NOT a principle of Anderson's analysis of rock aesthetics:
Rock is just entertainment, not to be taken too seriously
Which of these is not true about Ruth Brown:
She profited significantly from her major r&b hit, "Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean"
Which/who of the following is NOT associated with Phil Spector:
Stevie Wonder
Which of these distinguishes Speed/Thrash Metal from other sub-subgenres of Heavy Metal?
Super-fast tempos
Which of the following best fits the term "musical form":
The organization of musical spans of time into sections, and into patterns of repetition and difference
What was the so-called "second British Invasion"?
The prominence of English artists, including Thomas Dolby, Adam Ant, Billy Idol, and Flock of Seagulls in the U.S. in the Early '80s
Which of these technological or business developments was important in the growth of r&b as a marketing category in the 1940s
The reappearance of small, independent record labels
Which of the following describes Heartland Rock, at least as written by John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen?
The song lyrics often show a quite dark vision of American life
Which of these is true about the Ramones?
They all took stage names with the last name Ramone
Why were effects pedals significant to rock?
They allowed musicians to reproduce studio sound manipulations easily in concert
Why were Journey so hated by the rock press, even though they had a huge audience?
They were making "pop" moves, but playing with "rock" sounds
Which of the following describes the Sex Pistols?
They were the creation of Malcom McLaren, a rock promoter and shop owner
The purpose of a slide in guitar playing in Delta blues is:
To produce pitch variability
True or False: "The Twist" is an example of a rock and roll cover that was more successful than the r&b original.
True
True or False: Even though Run D.M.C. sampled rock and collaborated with rock artists, they were critical of the music and its culture, something that can be seen in the videos for both "King of Rock" and "Walk this Way."
True
True or False: Starr and Waterman see FM radio programming as a factor in the increasing separation between Black and white popular music audiences in the 1970s
True
True or False: The marketing practices of the 1980s led to the continued process of niche marketing and sub-genre proliferation.
True
True or False: niche marketing in the U.S. music industry has often been based on race
True
True or False: part of the genius of Berry Gordy's approach to record production was allowing individual musicians to occupy various roles, including songwriter and producer
True
True or False: the connection between rock and social movements in the 1960s was one factor in the growing adult audience for the music
True
True or false: According to Robert Christgau, Chuck Berry is the greatest of all rock and rollers.
True
Which of the following instruments was not part of the standard electric, Urban blues band:
Trumpet
Can rock and disco coexist?
Yes, at least according to one critic writing for the NY Times
The video for Cindy Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is an example of which of these types of music video:
"Artsy" videos with a narrative arc
Which of these does Robert Palmer NOT consider a necessary component of rock and roll?
"Bigness" from stage sets to orchestration
Which of these is a blues form song:
"Long, Tall Sally"
Which of the following was NOT an actual dance song from the early 1960s?
"The Hungry Hippo"
What do Starr and Waterman call the "golden age of punk rock?"
1975-1978
How many different chords are used in a typical blues form as described in the lecture?
3
The sections in a Verse-Chorus form song are common:
8 bars long
The song, "If I Didn't Care," by the Ink Spots, uses what kind of voice for its lead part?
A High, light-timbred countertenor
What was the Brill Building?
A New York location where rock and roll songwriters such as Jerry Goffin and Carole King worked
"Crooning" describes:
A kind of light, quiet, intimate singing style
Urban Blues was:
A new kind of blues formed when Black residents of the Mississippi Delta region relocated to Chicago and took up electric instruments
Which of these is a single-section form?
AABA song formVerse-chorusVerse-chorus-bridgeBlues
Prince, Mötley Crüe, Sheena Easton, Madonna, and Cindy Lauper shared what distinction in the 1980s:
All of them had songs on the PMRC's "Filthy Fifteen"
What do Frank Zappa, Twisted Sister singer Dee Snyder, and John Denver have in common?
All of them testified to the US congress in hearings on music censorship
In addition to noise, Rap Music and Heavy Metal shared the following:
All of these
Louis Jordan was:
All of these
Which of the following connects garage band rock with pub rock?
All of these
Which of the following did the new wave band Depeche Mode tell the author of "Roll Over, Guitar Heroes" made them happy to move from guitars to synthesizers?
All of these
Which of the following types of programming did MTV broadcast in the 1980s?
All of these
Which of these describes Speed/Thrash Metal?
All of these
Which of these is true about radio and records in the 1940s
All of these
Which of these is true about the lyrics to "pop":
All of these
Which of the following shows did the most to educate a national U.S. audience as consumers of rock and roll:
American Bandstand with Dick Clark
Which of these is a definition of reverb
An effect that creates a sense of space for a recording, by imitating the sound of reverberation in one kind of room or another
Which of the following describes the career trajectory of the Beatles, according to Starr and Waterman
Apprenticeship as cover band—period of emulation—period of innovation—breakup
Why is Elvis a "worried man," according to Kays Gary?
Because critics have been saying bad things about him
Why did variety shows stoke the controversy over rock and roll?
Because, as broad spectrum, family entertainment, they brought rock and roll to a wide audience
Which of the following bands is NOT associated with the new wave of Heavy Metal in the 80s?
Black Sabbath
Which of the following do Starr and Waterman describe as a concept or theme album from the 1970s:
Blue by Joni Mitchell
Which lyricist does Christgau compare Chuck Berry to:
Bob Dylan
According to Garofalo, 1980s Heavy Metal and Rap Music are connected because:
Both used a deep connection to technology to make music that was "noisy"
How were KISS and Alice Cooper similar?
Both used extensive stage makeup and costumes in performance
What did the film This is Spinal Tap parody?
British New Wave of Heavy Metal
Which of these is true:
British punk drew on a history of working class politics that American punk did not
Which of the following do Starr and Waterman describe as the center of the New York punk rock scene
CBGB & OMFUG
Which of the following helps give Joni Mitchell's recording, "California," a sense of "intimacy?"
Closely mic'ed strumming on the dulcimer
Which of these genres was not part of the r&b category in the 1940s and early 50s
Country
Which of these did CBGB stand for:
Country, Bluegrass, Blues
Which of these best describes Elvis's response to John Crosby's accusations about him:
Crosby is threatened by the fact that Elvis is doing so well making music Crosby doesn't get
Which of the following artists had a strong connection with GLBT culture and with Black British music, according to lecture 6B?
Culture Club
Which of the following was the first "effect" to be broadly applied to electric guitars in rock and roll:
Distortion
True or False: Rock in the 1980s is a complete break from the 1970s. A radically new performers really got their start in the decade, playing completely new styles, and artists who had been working in the 1970s really couldn't find any success.
False
True or False: according to the author of "Roll Over, Guitar Heroes," synthesizers in the early 1980s were to blame for boring synth-pop records, because they could not create good, authentic sounds yet.
False
True or false: The only women involved with Gold Star studio recordings were singers
False
True or false: Women did not sing Delta blues.
False
True or false: all four-chord songs have identical forms.
False
True or false: in the interview with Kays Gary, Elvis claimed to have invented his music from nothing.
False
True or false: rock and roll musicians were the first to use electric guitars
False
True or false: rock and roll was the only venue for the expression of teen culture in the 1950s.
False
True or false: rock was really the first American popular music to develop an international following
False
True or false: the author of "Cock Rock" set up her argument as a way of differentiating between the misogynist Rolling Stones camp and the egalitarian Beatles camp
False
True or false: the lyrics to Muddy Waters's song, "Got My Mojo Workin'" represent a complete break from Southern culture.
False
Which of these DOES NOT connect glam rock with "arena" rock in the 1970s?
Fictional stage personas
Jump blues was:
Formed when the Second World War forced some jazz big band leaders to downsize
Which of the following instruments is not represented in Louis Jordan's "Caledonia":
Harmonica (blues harp)
Which of the following was NOT a type of specialized sub-genre that emerged in the 1970s:
Harsh Rock
Which of the following best describes John Mendelsohn's reaction to Led Zeppelin's first album?
Hated it
Which of the following is true about Jimi Hendrix's attitude toward contemporary music, as expressed to Bob Dawbarn?
He liked a lot of the music around him in the U.K., but worried that the music scene was inauthentic and insincere
Which of the following is NOT true about Hendrix's engagement with audiences in the late-60s?
He mostly just wanted to give the people a show He just wanted them to listen to the music
Which of the following best describes Phil Spector
He was an aspiring musician and songwriter who found enormous success as a producer and promoter, primarily of vocal groups in Los Angeles
Which of the following was a real kind of country music in the early-to-mid-20th century:
Hillbilly boogie
Which of the following is true about record marketing?
In spite of niche marketing, U.S. audiences have often had quite broad musical tastes
Which of the following describes a widely shared pop music approach to instrumentation at mid-century:
Instruments were grouped into rhythm and lead roles
Which of the following describes MTV's approach to black music in the early 1980s?
It broadcast very little music by Black artists, even though such artists were making important pop music at the time
What is important about the song "Have Mercy, Baby," by Clyde McPhatter and the Dominoes?
It combined 12-bar blues with gospel harmony singing
How is Elvis Presley's "Blue Moon of Kentucky" a fusion of country and r&b elements?
It is a cover of a bluegrass song, but uses a rhythmic style developed from r&b
Which of the following is not true about Kitty Wells's "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
It is a good example of Texas Swing
Which of the following do Starr and Waterman say explains the popularity of 1950s rock and roll nostalgia in the 1970s, from American Graffiti to Happy Days:
It represented aging boomers' interest in a "golden age," before the 1960s counterculture
Which of the following is true about American Hardcore Punk?
It was a more racially mixed scene than many other kinds of rock in the 1980s All of these None of these
Which of the following do Starr and Waterman say about punk rock
It was as much a cultural style and it was a musical genre
Which of the following DOES NOT describe the Ramones' music?
It was highly virtuosic, requiring great skill to play
Which of the following is true about rock's popularity in the 1970s
It was one of many styles to have top-40 success in the period
Why even talk about soft rock in a class on rock?
It was one of the first styles of rock to find an audience over 30
Which of the following is significant about Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
It was released as an album and film, and Bowie toured it as a stage production
According to Starr and Waterman, the early 1960s are often regarded as a low point for rock music, but for a number of reasons this should not be the case. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons they give for looking at the early 1960s more closely:
It was the first real flowering of rockabilly
Which of the following is true about the early reception of the Beatles in the U.S.:
It was the first time a British musical act was received with such adulation in the U.S. None of the above is true
Which is NOT true about distortion in early rock and roll
It was usually really extreme at first, and only got mellower as engineers learned how to use it
Which of the following R&B stars does the author of "The Confessions of a Gay Rocker" describe as "Beyond camp, beyond macho," and claim as an inspiration for gay rock identities?
Little Richard
Which of the following does Anderson explain as a bodily effect of rock music:
Low notes—bass lines—are experienced in the lower abdomen as localized vibrations, private and impossible to resist
Which of the following is NOT a digital sound technology associated with the 1980s music industry?
MP3 Format
Which of these does Garofalo say contributed to Metal's mainstream success in the 1980s?
MTV's decision to program it "with a vengeance," on such shows as Headbanger's Ball
If there was a gay influence in 1960s British rock, where does the author of "The Confessions of a Gay Rocker" say to look for it?
Major bands' managers, including those of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles
Which of these was true about Heavy Metal's "look" in the 1980s?
Many bands adopted "feminine" imagery, including long hair, makeup, and tight spandex clothes
Which of the following was responsible for MTV moving more in the direction of programming music by Black artists?
Michael Jackson's Thriller
Which of the following artists was important in the emergence of electric, Urban blues:
Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield)
What does Anderson mean by "Head Music?"
Music that engages all the senses, bypassing the intellect
Which of the following genres was popular in Britain before it became popular in the U.S.?
New Wave
Which of the following terms best describes the Talking Heads?
New Wave
Which of the following is true about rock and dance in the early 1960s?
New dance styles popularized at the time showed changing social mores of teens, in part by allowing for group, rather than couple, dancing.
Which of the following did Pink Floyd NOT use on the song "Money?"
None is correct: they used all of these A shift between 7/4 and 4/4 meters Digital sampling Delay
What do Starr and Waterman say about live performance in rock in the 1970s
None of these
Which of the following is true about blues rock in the U.K. in the 1960s?
None of these is true Bands that started off as cover or emulation bands eventually developed innovative styles of their own
Which of these best describes Robert Palmer's thoughts about Bruce Springsteen in 1978?
Not rock and roll, just a good simulation
How many copies of "Maybellene" does Robert Christgau estimate Chuck Berry sold:
One Million
Why was film such a good medium for rock and roll?
Overdubbed sound allowed musicians to focus on over-the-top performativity
In 1949 Billboard magazine changed which of the following song tracking charts to "rhythm and blues":
Race records
Which of the following institutions was important in the beginning of the Talking Heads?
Rhode Island School of Design
Which of these is true about rock and roll song forms in the 1950s:
Rock and roll used the same standard forms as had been used in the previous decade
Which of the following does the author of "Cock Rock" say about the scene she found in late-1960s rock:
Singing is the one role, besides being a groupie, where women are allowed to exist
With which subgenre are the bands Journey and Hall and Oates associated?
Soft Rock
Which of the following movements was most clearly associated with rock in the 1960s?
The Hippie movement
Which of these was the variety show to give Elvis major, early visibility:
The Milton Berle Show
Which of the was the catch phrase for Motown Records:
The Sound of Young America
Which of the following do Starr and Waterman NOT list as precursors to punk rock?
The Talking Heads
Which of the following was responsible for the U.K.'s early adoption of rock and roll
The history of jazz, blues, and "skiffle" music performance by British artists
Which of the following best describes marketing practices in the early-20th century American music industry:
The industry targeted audiences by race, class, and region
Which of these was radical about punk rock:
The rejection of the idea of commercialism
Which of the following did the Parents' Musical Resource Center manage to accomplish?
The studios started releasing "beeped" versions of songs
Which of the following is true about "novelty" songs
They became increasingly popular in the later-1940s
According to the article, "Roll Over, Guitar Heroes," what changed about the use of synthesizers between the 1970s and 1980s?
They stopped being used as a novelty and just became integrated into every kind of rock and pop music
Matsushita, Thorn, and Bertelsmann were what in the 1980s:
Three of the corporate parent companies that held the majority of the record industry
Which of these best describes Chuck Berry's approach to writing rock and roll:
To mix the blues with country-influenced, humorous, narrative songs
True or False: according to the author of "The Confessions of a Gay Rocker," rock in the late-70s and early-80s was identified as a "straight" musical genre.
True
True or False: one thing that helped Phil Spector and Berry Gordy both achieve consistent success was that they each had "house bands" that played on the majority of their recordings
True
True or false: Punk rock was in some ways a return to the roots of rock and roll and its spirit of risk taking
True
True or false: in the 1940s "crooning" absolutely dominated the pop music charts
True
True or false: the "sexual revolution" of the later-1960s was in some sense prefigured in the new dance styles featured on American Bandstand
True
True or false: the pop music critic John Crosby was convinced that this rock and roll music was just a fad and sure to disappear quickly.
True
True or false: the spoken section in "If I Didn't Care," by the Ink Spots, is called a "testimonial," and is drawn from performance practice in Black church traditions
True
True or false: there was actually considerable blurring of the boundaries between subgenres in the 1970s—singer songwriter and soft rock can be hard to distinguish, and the lines between metal and prog are not always clear.
True
True or false: while early rock and roll is often described as a music that comes from fusing country and r&b, many early rock and roll recordings are really not fusions at all.
True
Can rock appeal to adults?
Yes, according to a panel of experts convened by the NY Times, but it may do so by changing
