survey of pop music ch 11

Which Southern rock band featured a guitar virtuoso who was a sought-after session musician who had also recorded with soul music stars such as Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett?

Allman Brothers Band

Which multitalented African American singer, songwriter, arranger, conductor, and producer formed the Love Unlimited Orchestra, which recorded the instrumental hit "Love's Theme"?

Barry White

Which successful rock album released in 1971 by Joni Mitchel consists of a cycle of songs about the complexities of love and is carefully designed to create a strong emotional focus clearly related to the autobiography of the singer?

Blue

Which of the following 1970s style of music describes cheerful songs aimed mainly at a preteen audience?

Bubblegum

Dolly Parton is an English-born singer who grew up in Australia who scored a series of Top 10 country pop crossover hits and in 1974 won the Country Music Association's award for Female Singer of the Year.

False

Which country crossover artist of the 1970s had a western swing background and a laid-back style that helped expand his national popularity?

Glen Campbell

Which pop-oriented country performer recorded the song "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" and won the Country Music Association's award as Entertainer of the Year in 1975 but was despised by many in the traditional audience for country music?

John Denver

Which of the following bands exemplified the "Philadelphia sound" of the 1970s?

O'Jays

Which English-born Australian recording artist scored a series of Top 10 country-pop crossover hits in the 1970s including "Let Me Be There," "If You Love Me (Let Me Know)," and "Have You Never Been Mellow"?

Olivia Newton-John

Which British rock band recorded the concept album Exile on Main Street in 1972?

Rolling Stones

Which Los Angeles-based band recorded the desperate, almost apocalyptic song "Hotel California"?

The Eagles

Based on record sales in Black communities, there was not much interest in rock music, as the promise of rock music as a zone of interracial interaction largely vanished by the 1970s.

True

Before becoming a country music crossover star with a series of hits topping the charts, Glen Campbell worked in western swing bands in the Southwest as a teenager, and later developed a career as a studio session guitarist and vocalist.

True

During the 1970s, the popular music market fell into two categories: 1) a new generation of teenagers, and 2) adults aged 25-40 who had grown up with rock 'n' roll and were looking for more mature material.

True

The band _______ was a radio-friendly jazz rock band of the early 1970s that achieved the greatest long-term popularity and commercial success, particularly with their hit "25 or 6 to 4".

chicago

Donna Summer, whose vocal style was characterized by its emphatic and expansive range, with roots in R&B and gospel, was dubbed the Queen of _______.

disco

Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" rose to the top of the rock charts because it was released as the only single from the album.

false

The 1970s saw little innovation by rock bands to incorporate theatricality, visual displays in performance, or creative album cover art.

false

The term developed for stations that played music hits of the 1950s and early 1960s, in order to appeal to the nostalgic tendencies of an audience, was known as _______ radio.

oldies

The musical instrument known as the Hammond B-3 _______ created one of the most characteristic sounds of 1970s rock recordings.

organ

Electronic keyboards, like the popular Yamaha DX-7, and computer-generated technology that created musical sounds for recording artists during the 1970s and 1980s were called _______.

synthesizers

Miles Davis began his career in the late 1940s playing trumpet with modern jazz pioneers such as Charlie Parker. For much of the 1950s and 60s, he played a critical role in the evolution of jazz, releasing perhaps his most creative album, Bitches Brew, in 1970.

true

One of the defining features of disco was a focus on producers who oversaw the making of recordings, DJs who played them in nightclubs, and the handful of glamorous stars who sang with backing of anonymous studio musicians.

true

Stevie Wonder, a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer, often played most of the instruments on his recordings, synchronizing the performance by overdubbing several tracks on the recording tape.

true