Music 12- American Popular Music Units 17-20

The early programming on MTV started with a well-integrated mix of music videos by blacks and whites.

False

The subject of Metallica's song "One" (Hetfeld, Ulrich, 1988) deals with marital infidelity.

False

The sudden contrasts between melody and accompaniment became a defining feature of alternative music.

False

U2's first album, October, addressed the band's faith.

False

Will.i.am created a number of innovative covers of Michael Jackson.

False

Eminem, white rap artist, enjoys widespread acceptance within the music industry by both white and black audiences.

True

Generation X is best described as those born of baby boomers.

True

Heavy metal morphed into many different sub-styles in the 1980s.

True

House music and techno were two genres of dance music that followed on the heels of disco.

True

In Moby's music, there is often a merger of electronic elements with rock and rap elements.

True

In efforts to aid famine relief in Africa, many pop musicians presented "Live Aid."

True

In the eighties, heavy metal fans consisted mainly of young white American or British males.

True

Initially, MTV programming targeted a young, white audience.

True

MIDI allows electronic instruments to communicate with one another and with a computer.

True

Madonna addresses the themes of racism and Christian brotherhood in her song, "Like a Prayer."

True

Moby was a one-man band from New York City.

True

Pop divas in the 1980s and 1990s have helped erase ethnic background as an issue in romantic music.

True

Public Enemy's "1 Million Bottlebags" addresses companies that prey on blacks by advertising their products heavily in the ghetto.

True

Public Enemy's "1 Million Bottlebags" includes "found" sounds, such as a bottle breaking, the sound of beer being poured, and belching.

True

Punk and disco are two styles that are nearly impossible to blend.

True

Radiohead's song "Paranoid Android" is defined by three very different sections.

True

Rocker John Mellencamp uses a banjo and accordion in "Paper in Fire."

True

The Red Hot Chili Peppers were steeped in funk, associating closely with George Clinton, and members of James Brown's band.

True

The music of the 1980s was the first generation of rock music not nurtured by the blues.

True

The roots of electronica come from the classical music avant-garde.

True

The video of Madonna's hit song, "Like a Prayer" is an entity distinct from the song that spawned it.

True

Tupac Shakur recorded "California Love" with Dr. Dre.

True

U2 is known for their many contrasts: between high and low and between slow and fast.

True

"What's Love Got to Do with It" (T. Turner, 1984) includes the ____________________ style of rhythm.

reggae

Which of the following genres was not included in the Billboard's 2000's top ten best-selling acts?

reggae

Due to the popularity of the music video, song and video are often created as an integrated whole.

True

_____________________ was an early pioneer and father of ambient music.

Brian Eno

________________________ worked with U2 as a producer of the albums The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree and enriched their "sonic landscape."

Brian Eno

House music in its early days is normally associated with ___________________.

Chicago

The early days of techno were normally associated with ________________________.

Detroit

Which of the following artists or groups was not considered an innovative rock or electronic musician?

Dolly Parton

"We are the World" was produced by Stevie Wonder.

False

Ambient music is a style of electronica that is less atmospheric and more dance driven.

False

Asbury Park, where Bruce Springsteen grew up, is in New York City.

False

Composer and philosopher John Cage strongly supported the return to old styles.

False

Digital technology hampered artists' ability to make well-crafted music.

False

Edgar Varèse was a key figure on the techno scene during the 1980s.

False

Electronica is noteworthy in that its live performers are more important than the DJs who play their recordings.

False

Eminem's "Love the Way You Lie" is from his album Relapse.

False

Except for Tom Petty, the musicians of the Traveling Wilburys were relative unknowns.

False

In dance music, the musical unit it is no longer the recording, but the ambience.

False

In the creation of a set, the DJ's main concern is the form and integrity of each of its songs.

False

Kid A (2000) is Radiohead's third studio album.

False

MTV began broadcasting in 1992.

False

Michael Jackson produced his own highly successful video, Thriller.

False

One of the reasons Michael Jackson's career was so successful is that he produced his own hits and videos early on.

False

Prince hired the top musicians and producers for his first few albums.

False

R.E.M., as characteristic of many other alternative bands, utilizes a plethora of electronic sounds in their music.

False

Radiohead's pay-what-you-want marketing was a complete financial disaster for the group.

False

Smashing Pumpkins' "I Do Not Want This" utilizes a repeated two-chord cycle through much of the song.

False

Supernatural was Nirvana's breakthrough album of 1991.

False

The Chemical Sisters is a band known for their radical approach to twenty-first-century sound.

False

The most direct forerunners of rap are __________________________.

George Clinton and Jamaican DJs

Moby's breakthrough came in 1999 with his album ____________________.

Play

The Traveling Wilburys featured an ex-Beatle (G. Harrison), Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and ___________________.

Roy Orbison

__________________ is credited with sparking gangsta rap.

Schooly D

________________ paved the way for black artists to be aired on MTV.

Thriller

"1979" and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" show rock acts gravitating toward the approach to sound that began in the 1990s.

True

A concern of twenty-first-century music is that there is a dearth of music that offers a transformative new style.

True

Alternative bands toured widely, often performing in college towns rather than large cities.

True

Before the 1960s, singles were far more popular than albums in popular music.

True

Billboard's best-selling chart for the 2000s exemplifies a fragmented marketplace.

True

Brian Eno's early music was a bridge between the world of classical electronic music and electronica in the popular tradition.

True

Bruce Springsteen is best known for staying close to his rock and roll roots and bringing rock back to the mainstream.

True

DOR stands for "dance-oriented rock."

True

Density refers to how sounds are distributed across the audible spectrum.

True

Given the technology of his time, Grandmaster Flash turned his turntable into ______________________.

a musical instrument

Bruce Springsteen's song "Born in the U.S.A." is about _______________________.

a portrait of a Vietnam war veteran's scathing indictment of war and its costs

John Cage's "4'33"" premiered ___________________.

at Woodstock

The words of "The Message" (Grandmaster Flash, 1982) _____________________.

communicate the desolation of the ghetto environment

The Cable Act of 1984 ______________________________.

deregulated the television industry

MIDI refers to ____________________________.

digital interfacing between musical instruments

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgard Varèse, John Cage, and Milton Babbitt are classical composers whose work in musique concrète were the forerunners of _____________________.

electronica

"1 Million Bottlebags" (Public Enemy, 1991) is about _________________________.

indicting the abusers and producers of alcohol in black communities

There are two basic kinds of samples in common use. One is the recorded sound of a voice or group of voices, an instrument or a group of instruments, or some other sound. The other _____________________________.

involves lifting short excerpts from existing recordings to use in a new recording

Gangsta rap was able to crossover to the mainstream when ___________________________.

more pop elements were incorporated

Harry Belafonte instigated which of the following projects to raise money for African famine relief?

recording of "We Are the World"

Remastering successfully validated the 2000 re-release of which of the following?

the Beatles' No. 1 singles

How do we define "timeless" form?

the repetitive rhythms and absence or repetition of harmony and rhythm

Punk-inspired pop of the early 1980s kept the saturated rock rhythm of punk but changed _____________________.

the spirit of the song

Van Halen's "Jump" features ______________________ in the accompaniment.

the synthesizer