Music 15 exam2
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg were
American "beat poets" who took a stance that attacked the so-called "normal" middle-class lifestyle.
The group who provided most of the backing musical tracks for the Memphis-based Stax and Volt record labels was
Booker T and the MGs.
Which of the following musical styles is one of the important influences on the sound of the Grateful Dead?
Country and Bluegrass.
Which of the following groups would NOT be considered a garage band?
David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars.
A British folk singer who achieved wide success in USA, especially after he adopted a psychedelic "flower power" image was
Donovan.
Robert Fripp was the leader and guitarist for
King Crimson.
Which of the following IS NOT one of the groups that George Clinton was involved with?
Kood and the Gang.
An album by The Beach Boys that showed Brian Wilson's maturity as a songwriter ad was one of the first albums to have the songs related too each other by a unifying concept was
Pet Sounds
The Almanac Singers and The Weavers were two traditional folk groups that featured singer/songwriter
Pete Seeger.
Firestone guitars, effects such as phase shifting, lyrics with dream-like imagery, sudden, tempers, changes and long instrumental "jams" best describes the musical characteristics of
Psychedelic Rock.
Which of the following group IS NOT representative of the early 1970's funk style?
T Rex.
Which of the following groups were all associated with the "San Francisco Sound"?
The Grateful Dead, Santana, &ss The Jefferson Airplane.
Curtis Mayfield was a member of the Chicago Soul group
The Impressions.
Syd Barrett was
The founding member and leader of Pink Floyd in its early 70s.
The "jangly" sound associated with groups like the Byrds in their recording of "Mr Tambourine Man" is a result of
The guitarist playing electric 12 string guitars.
Which of the following WAS NOT a characteristic of a late 1960s garage band
They were almost all technically skilled and experienced musicians.
What was the role of Brian Holland,Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland as Motown Records?
They were songwriters.
Socially conscious lyrics often protesting injustice are most characteristic of songs associated with
Traditional folk music
The song "This Land is Your Land" was written by
Woody Guthrie.
David Bowie' sandrogynous "alter egos" sharing the early and 1970's was known as
Ziggy Stardust.
A keyboard instrument that produces sounds similar to Violins/Voices/Flute and was one of the defining sounds of early 1970s progressive rock is
a Mellotron.
Emerson, Lake , and Palmer are best described as
a group that consists of technically, brilliants, classically trained musicans playing a complex, advanced style of rock.
Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker were
the trombonist and saxophonist in James Brown's backing group known as the J.B.s.
Folk rock can be traced to Bob Dylan "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in which year?
1965.
The Moody Blues was best described as
A group of conventional rock/pop musicians that often incorporate a classical orchestra into their sound.