exam 4 music 9,10,11,12

Which of the following artists was an early celebrity of hip-hop music?

Afrika Bambaataa

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

Who did not perform as a member of the Beatles?

Brian Epstein

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

Bubblegum

Which songwriter partnered with Hal David in the 1960s and penned a series of hits for Dionne Warwick that were a remarkable testament to the resilience of the Tin Pan Alley aesthetic?

Burt Bacharach

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

Which surf guitarist was known for a characteristic "wet" sound, lead the Del-Tones, and was known for songs like "Pipeline" and "Misirlou"?

Dick Dale

"World music" was never important enough in the culture of American pop to represent a distinctive marketing category.

False

Hip-hop initially developed as a local phenomenon in white middle-class neighborhoods across middle America.

False

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

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (1962) was a concept album and a milestone in the history of American pop music that was responsible for the success of Elvis Presley.

False

Punk music was defined by its attitude that rejected the rebellion against authority of rock music and sought to incorporate the more conservative values of the American middle-class.

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 Los Angeles-born trumpeter and songwriter founded A&M Records, led the Tijuana Brass, and was known for such hits as "The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro)" and "A Taste of Honey"?

Herb Alpert

Which is true about "The Twist"?

It was essentially an individual, noncontact dance without any real steps generally done by a boy-girl couple facing one another.

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

The _______ sound was the musical style created by songwriter and producer, Berry Gordy Jr., in Detroit during the 1960s.

Motown

What was the name of the record label founded by Phil Spector?

Philles

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

Rolling Stones

Which one of the following artists or groups recorded for Motown records in the 1960s?

The Supremes

Which is not true about the Beatles' Number 1 hit from 1964, "A Hard Day's Night"?

The song features flamenco guitar, castanets, and other "exotic" elements.

"Say It Loud—I'm Black and I'm Proud" (1968) is a song by James Brown that pares down the vocal to a highly rhythmic speech pattern and is backed by a harmonically static but rhythmically active accompaniment.

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

Which influential figure in the progressive country movement developed his career as a professional songwriter in Nashville but later settled in Austin, where he recorded the concept album Red-Headed Stranger?

Willie Nelson

What was the name by which the studio musicians with whom Phil Spector worked regularly at Gold Star Studios became known?

Wrecking Crew

The song, "Hallelujah I Love Her So" (1956), by Ray Charles, shows the influence of both gospel and _______ genres of music that came to be defined as "soul" music.

blues

A _______ album is a term used to characterize an album that is conceived as an integrated whole, with interrelated songs arranged in a deliberate sequence.

concept

_______ was the term used in the 1960s to define a subculture existing in opposition to and espousing values contrary to those of the dominant culture.

counterculture

The Nashville Sound of the 1960s that dominated the recording style of country artists was known by the term _______, a fusion of "country" and "cosmopolitan."

countrypolitan

A _______ band was a term used in the 1970s to denote a neighborhood operation made up of young men who played mainly for themselves, their friends, and the occasional high school dance.

garage

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

The records of influential soul singer, James Brown, who created a repetitive, riff-based instrumental style, which elevated rhythm far above harmony as the primary source of interest, is _______ by hip-hop artists more than any other musician.

sampled

The "California sound" of the early 1960s was influenced by a performing style of guitar that incorporated lots of reverb, and rapid, descending tremolo, and was known as _______ music.

surf

Which recording by Bob Dylan was a fierce song about a young woman's fall from a state of obvious privilege into one of desperation and effectively put an end to previous restrictions on length, subject matter, and poetic diction in the creation of pop records?

"Like a Rolling Stone"

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 term refers to the mass adulation surrounding the Beatles?

Beatlemania

Which artist recorded the politically charged "Say It Loud—I'm Black and I'm Proud," which was a striking anticipation of important Black music to come both in its musical style and in its emphasis on the Black experience as subject matter?

Dionne Warwick

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

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

Ernest Evans (Chubby Checker) was a successful recording artist as a teenager; established himself by the early 1960s as a songwriter and producer working behind the scenes of rock 'n' roll; and founded his independent label, Philles Records, at age 21.

False

Southern rock is a more loosely defined category that included commercially successful collaborations between jazz and rock musicians and a variety of hybrid styles that melded rock aesthetics and instrumentation with the harmonic and rhythmic complexity and improvisational styles of jazz.

False

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

False

The Beatle's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover was unique in that it was designed with a solid color with no words or images displayed, other than the title.

False

The Beatles musical style remained virtually the same throughout their relatively short career.

False

The musical term funky probably derived from the (Central African) KiKongo term funki, meaning "funny" or "humorous"—originally used by European classical musicians.

False

The urban folk music genre, and its representative artists, that emerged in the 1960s never caught on to garner mass appeal with rock 'n' roll audiences.

False

Which of the following is true about Bob Dylan?

His songs reflected a gift for poetic imagery, metaphor, and irony.

Which of the following is not a rapper featured on the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"?

Iggy "Pop" Stooge

Which popular music "sound" involved a sophisticated approach to the vocal presentation and instrumental arrangement of country music in the 1960s and was exemplified by artists like Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley?

Nashville Sound

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

Dr. Funkenstein, Star Child, the Thumpasorous People, and Sir Nose D'VoidOfFunk were characters that spoofed commercialized, soulless music in innovative concept albums by which 1970s funk band?

Parliament

Which New York-based poet, journalist, and singer recorded a critically acclaimed album Horses, in 1976, and was the first rock musician to perform regularly at the legendary nightclub CBGBs?

Patti Smith

Which artist recorded the milestone concept album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music in 1962?

Ray Charles

Which talented composer, arranger, songwriter, and pianist had a unique vocal timbre and recorded in a variety of musical genres including Tin Pan Alley music ("Georgia on My Mind"), R&B ("What'd I Say"), and country ("I Can't Stop Loving You")?

Ray Charles

Which urban folk duo recorded "The Sound of Silence?"

Simon and Garfunkel

The _______ were a 1960s singing group that inspired the Broadway musical, and later movie, Dreamgirls, that presents a fictionalized account of their career and success story.

Supremes

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

The Eagles

What was the name of Motown's house band in the 1960s that featured bass player James Jamerson, drummer Benny Benjamin, and keyboardist Earl Van Dyke?

The Funk Brothers

Which of the following bands embodied an American punk rock antifashion response to the English glam rock movement typified by the gender-bending David Bowie?

The New York Dolls

"Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)" is considered Parliament's biggest crossover song, exemplifying the band's approach to ensemble style.

True

"My Girl," composed and produced by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, performed by the Temptations, and released 1965, is an example of the "Motown sound."

True

"Yesterday," written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, was unusual for its solo voice arrangement with guitar and string ensemble but enjoyed the most wide-ranging and enduring popularity of any of their songs.

True

1960s singer, Aretha Franklin, had a resurgence in popularity and recording output in the mid-1980s.

True

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

Grandmaster Flash was a hip-hop musician who adopted the mixing techniques of disco DJs, particularly the use of headphones to synchronize the tempos of recordings and create smooth transitions from one dance groove to the next.

True

In addition to the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, and the Kinks were bands of the "British Invasion" that retained substantial long-term popular success.

True

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

Progressive country is a genre inspired by the honky-tonk and rockabilly amalgam of Bakersfield country music; the singer-songwriter genre; and the country rock style of musicians like Gram Parsons.

True

Sid Vicious was the stage name for John Ritchie, a nonmusician friend of John Lydon who replaced bassist Glen Matlock. He died of a heroin overdose while released on bail on charges of stabbing his girlfriend to death.

True

Simon and Garfunkel's popular hit, "The Sounds of Silence," was originally released by their producer, who overdubbed a rock band accompaniment to the original recording, speeded it up, and released the single without their permission.

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

The "California sound" of the early 1960s grew out of an influential style known as "surf guitar" that was developed by Dick Dale (b. 1937) and his band the Del-Tones.

True

The Beach Boys first Top 10 hit, "Surfin' USA" (1963), borrows the music of Chuck Berry's 1958 hit "Sweet Little Sixteen" as a setting for the new beach craze.

True

The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds can be characterized as a "concept album," comprising a cycle of songs that charts a progression from youthful optimism to philosophical and emotional disillusionment.

True

The Brill Building was a famous New York City building where aspiring songwriters were employed in cubicles with pianos, packed tightly together, turning out songs for large numbers of artists and (mostly indie) labels.

True

The Nashville Sound of the early 1960s was largely due to the influence of musicians Jim Reeves and Floyd Cramer, who helped to make artists like Patsy Cline a recording success.

True

The three groups cited as ancestors of 1970s punk are the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, and the New York Dolls.

True

Which New York-based rock band formed by singer-guitarist Lou Reed and violist John Cale is frequently cited as an ancestor of 1970s punk music?

Velvet Underground

Brian _______ (b. 1942) formed the Beach Boys with his two brothers, a cousin, and a friend in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

Wilson

The practice of _______, employed by DJs, involved turning the LP disc counterclockwise to yield scratchy, percussive sound effects, which could be punched into the dance groove.

backspinning

_______ music represented another back-to-basics impetus, in that it represented the impulse to dance centered in urban Black communities, where social dance remained a backbone of social life and a primary means for transmitting traditional values and generating a sense of novelty and excitement.

funk

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