Music Ch 13-on
Which of the following events marked the end of the first era of rock and roll music?
Elvis Presley was drafted into the army. Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash.
In 1965, _____, also known as "Mr. Dynamite," recorded "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," pointing soul in a fiery new direction.
James Brown
With a voice sometimes described as coarse sandpaper, _____ became the most powerful female performer of the rock era, expressing with eloquence, but never overcoming, the agony of her sad and hopeless life.
Janis Joplin
Identify an accurate statement about black popular music following World War II.
Much black popular music was based on the form and harmonic pattern of the blues.
Which of the following were the features provided by discothèques of the late 1960s in America?
Multiple rock bands playing live music Huge rotating mirrored light balls and extreme sonic overload that induced virtual hallucinogenic states
In 1985, Pat Metheny composed the score for the movie _____, which led to his recording "This Is Not America"—a Top 40 hit—with David Bowie.
The Falcon and the Snowman
Identify an accurate statement about the impact of technology in the music business.
Wide access to the Internet has provided unprecedented opportunities to hear music produced by independent labels.
Who among the following is considered the creator of the modern jazz organ?
Wild Bill Davis
Today movies are recognized as _____.
a source of concert music
Musical genres that include an effective blend of serious concert music and rock are called _____.
art rock
In the year 1955, the Comets' recording of "Rock Around the Clock," used as the theme for the movie _____, became the first international rock-and-roll hit.
blackboard jungle
_____, a rock quartet with a brass section and later with a saxophone as well, produced a sound closer to jazz than to rock.
blood, sweat, and tears
Identify the rock musical groups that incorporated elements of jazz in their music.
blood, sweat, and tears Chicago
Improved communication and expanded travel aided by the new technology _____.
bring fascinating new sounds to the Western vernacular music experience
_____, among the most talented early black stars of rock and roll, fused with rhythm and blues more country-western elements than had other outstanding black musicians of the mid-1950s.
chuck berry
_____, or the blending of jazz and various other musics, seemed particularly characteristic of the 1980s.
crossover jazz
The _____ band Nirvana, led by Kurt Cobain, achieved a hybrid of pop, metal, and punk that became a national phenomenon.
grunge
The musical genre called _____ combined the aggression of heavy metal with a melodic element reminiscent of the Beatles.
grunge
A characteristic of film score is that _____.
it builds a sense of continuity throughout the movie
A feature of an iPod is that _____.
it is compact, elegant, and extremely portable
A feature of movie music is that _____.
it is recognized as a subject worthy of serious musicological consideration today
A feature of the theremin is that _____.
it was the earliest electronic musical instrument
Bruce Springsteen further revitalized music in the mid-1980s with his stirring songs on _____.
socially relevant topics
Diegetic music is also called _____.
source music
Composers of film music listen to the score, that consists of existing music prepared to demonstrate to the composer the type of music desired for the film.
temp
Bob Dylan switched from urban folk to folk rock in 1965, replacing _____.
the acoustic instruments of his early days with an electric guitar and a rock rhythm section
DJs of hip-hop revved dancers to frenzied enthusiasm by playing just _____.
the brief instrumental phrases called the breaks between vocal sections
Bob Dylan's songs inspired others in the folk revival movement to _____.
write their own material
_____ music produced by synthesizers, samplers, computers, and drum machines has been increasing in popularity year by year.
electric dance
Unlike white hip-hop musicians, Missy Elliott, who sings as much as she raps, and the Roots, an eight-piece hip-hop band using traditional instruments in place of turntables and samples, consider themselves _____.
full-fledged hip-hop artists born and bred
As new styles evolved, the more brutal _____ of the late 1980s, often praising misogyny and violence, attracted devoted listeners, both black and white, but drew condemnation from courts and law enforcers.
gangsta rap
Identify the musical elements associated with punk
A rigid eighth-note rhythmic throb A vocal range so narrow as to approach a drone
Which of the following statements are true about the no wave or noise style of music that gained popularity in the 1990s?
According to John Zorn, this style of music seeks the emancipation of noise. Some people have described this music as a collage of very short, isolated sound events.
Who among the following were Janis Joplin's inspirations?
Bessie Smith Willie Mae Thornton
In the context of traditionalism in jazz music, identify an accurate statement.
Bop and post-bop offered traditionalists a structured yet progressive sound—daring, but not too new.
Which of the following is a true statement about free jazz?
Free jazz reflects an interest in non-Western music, which intrigued many twentieth-century composers of classical music.
Identify an accurate statement about John Lewis.
He was a classically trained African American pianist interested in the forms of European art music of the Baroque and Renaissance period.
Identify an accurate statement about gospel music.
It became a branch of rhythm and blues and contributed vitally to both jazz and rock.
Which of the following events contributed to the end of the heady early days of rock and roll?
MLK was murdered
Which of the following statements is true about the Motown sound?
Motown groups drew on rhythm and blues and gospel, but they also drew on pop conventions of Tin Pan Alley.
Which of the following is true about jazz music in the 1980s?
New information about other music traditions, together with sophisticated new technology, greatly extended the range of jazz identity.
Who formed the folk group called the Weavers that was dedicated to preserve the tradition of political-activist protest songs?
Pete Seeger
Identify an accurate statement about the changes in popular music after World War II.
Popular music increasingly diversified, generally moving away from instrumental music back to song.
Identify the movies whose sound tracks reached the Top 40 on Billboard's album chart.
Pulp Fiction Natural Born Killers
Identify an accurate statement about functional music.
Relationships between source and functional movie music are frequently complex.
Identify an accurate statement about Joni Mitchell.
She resisted dominance by customary chord progressions or lyrics.
Which of the following statements are true about jazz-rock-fusion music?
Snare drums and bass drums replaced the rhythmic effects previous jazz ensembles had assigned to piano and cymbals. The use of bass guitar or electric bass allowed musicians to alter their sounds with electronic effects.
_____, who also recorded for Motown, became the first member of the group to achieve artistic independence and gain control over his own recordings.
Stevie Wonder
Identify an accurate statement about the Beach Boys.
The Beach Boys changed their leader and their image, after 1966, adding electronic effects to their music, now darkened by protest songs.
Identify the true statements about the techniques used by film composers to accomplish their practical and aesthetic goals.
They use unorthodox chord progressions as an element of surprise. They use unresolved harmonies to build suspense.
Identify an accurate statement about urban folk musicians.
They used folk music as a forum for social protest.
Which of the following statements is true of the new songs introduced in American films during the 1930s and 1940s?
They were quite independent of the films that launched or popularized them.
Identify the American composers who devoted serious attention to writing film scores.
Virgil Thomson Aaron Copland
Identify the Oscar-winning movie of 2002 that strengthened the perception that the movie musical had returned to favor.
chicago
The 2016 romantic musical comedy La La Land reflected the _____.
continued appreciation for modern movie musicals
An accurate statement about the features of free jazz is that it _____.
had unfamiliar chord changes and unsteady beat
The advent of the portable digital audio player called the in 2001 quickly revolutionized the music business.
ipod
Unresolved harmonies build suspense, unorthodox chord progressions effect surprise, and the change from _____ (often understood to suggest order or stability) to _____ (more chromatic and therefore less stable) commonly darkens the mood.
major minor
Musically mimicking, or , a character's actions adds sub- or semiconscious humor to a scene, while suggestive melodic lines or harmonies effectively foretell or reinforce dramatic events.
mickey mousing
Movie convention readily accepts functional, or _____, heard by the spectators but not by the characters in the film.
nondiegetic music
Vast numbers of composers, conductors, arrangers, and performers produced film music of increasing complexity and increasing reliance upon _____ from the 1930s through the 1950s.
nondiegetic scores
Alternative country music refers to the preference of some country musicians to express _____.
nontraditional concepts with a country sound
In his last years, Woody Guthrie expressed frustration that his song had become widely known and popular, but without its _____.
protest verses
Which of the following punk bands added to their music a degree of complexity and an aesthetic dimension unique among punk bands?
television
Inspired by Bob Dylan's songs, the folk revivalists produced _____.
original folk songs
Which of the following are true about the conditions in the United States in the years after World War II, which in turn influenced the increase in diversity in popular music?
Postwar conditions fostered an unparalleled sense of independence and even rebellion among American youth. Adolescents and their parents experienced a serious, unprecedented gap in communication and understanding.
Identify an accurate statement about the influence of technology in the music business of today.
Software programs preclude the need to read or notate music.
Identify the common features of the music developed by John Williams for all the Star Wars movies
Trumpet fanfares on repeated notes to signal battle Pyramiding brasses to signal danger
Today major recording companies and a few independents are exploring a new type of business relationship known as _____, in which artists share with their label their earnings not just from album sales, but from concerts, merchandise, and other sources as well.
multiple rights
Around 1950, many composers began to accompany their films with _____.
pop music
The eerie sounds of the electronic musical instrument aroused unprecedented sensations of suspense.
theremin
A feature of new wave groups is that _____.
they defused punk by imitating its manner but not its substance
A characteristic of sound engineers is that they practice sonic manipulation _____.
to make a recording more marketable
Which of the following musicians developed the style referred to as "Rockabilly" by combining country themes with the rhythms and instrumentation of rock and roll?
Elvis Presley
Identify an accurate statement about Herbie Hancock.
He composed "Rockit," a fusion of jazz, funk, and electronics that became a massive hit and inspired an early MTV video.
Which of the following statements is true about Pat Metheny?
He explored the musical possibilities of the twelve-string guitar and the digital sampling synthesizer called synclavier.
Which of the following statements is true about John Coltrane?
He furthered his interest in modal music and reflected the pulsating quality of Indian music.
Identify an accurate statement about Henry Threadgill.
He is a multi-instrumentalist who travels and performs with gospel musicians and blues bands principally playing saxophone and flute.
Identify an accurate statement about Don Cherry.
He referred to himself as a world musician and played many ethnic instruments from around the world.
The composer who first attracted attention to the idea of third stream, which had not yet been named, was _____.
John Lewis
In 1960, _____ introduced free collective improvisation in an album titled Free Jazz, which defied the perception of jazz as generally accessible to the ordinary listener.
Ornette Coleman
_____ music was characterized by long performances, dramatic light shows, emission from smoke and fog machines, and other special effects.
Psychedelic rock
What was the outcome of the dominance of rock and roll in the popular music market after World War II?
Record sales for traditional country music decreased and radio listeners vanished.
How did jazz-rock-fusion music evolve in the 1970s?
Recording technology acquired unprecedented importance for jazz musicians.
Identify an accurate statement about American blues, gospel, soul, pop, and jazz singer Aretha Franklin.
She began her music experience singing in church and transferred the emotional gospel style to popular and rhythm-and-blues songs.
Identify an accurate statement about the new style of music developed by African American musicians migrating north to Chicago after World War II.
Their music closely related to rhythm and blues style of music.
Bob Dylan's fans were outraged when he appeared wearing a black leather jacket at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965 and played _____.
an electric guitar backed by a rock rhythm band
Joan Baez's recordings of the Carter Family's songs, introduced them to a new audience and also to musicians who _____.
composed original folk songs modeled on country music
The urban folk revival came into full bloom as popular attention was diverted to the Kingston Trio's recording of "Tom Dooley," forming an important tie between _____.
country music and mainstream pop
True or false: Unlike third stream, the blending of classical and jazz effects in symphonic, cool, and progressive jazz allows each style to retain its characteristic qualities.
false
Many people consider Woody Guthrie America's greatest _____.
folk poet
The word _____, from African American slang, suggests raw, sweaty, earthy, back-to-roots.
funk
The electric bass and keyboard and synthesizers on Herbie Hancock's album Headhunters gave jazz a radical new sound, sometimes called _____.
jazz funk
In 1971, four prominent bluegrass musicians led by fiddler/mandolin player Sam Bush formed the New Grass Revival, a band dedicated to fusing elements of _____ with bluegrass style.
jazz, rock, and blues
The success of the band called the New Grass Revival led to the adoption by other bands of the generic term
newgrass
Temporarily sidelined by a nervous breakdown, Brian Wilson poured his talent into songwriting to produce, in 1966, _____, which became an influential theme album in a market whose albums primarily had consisted of single, unrelated songs.
pet sounds
In 1949, the industry trade journal Billboard abandoned the offensive term race records, grouping all the popular music intended for a black audience under the term _____, and for several years that was the phrase generally applied to black popular music.
rhythm and blues
In the backdrop of protests against discrimination, authoritarianism, and the Vietnam war, the vivid new music replacing the carefree early rock and roll was collectively called , of which many and diverse branches or brands evolved.
rock
the term , suggesting a hybrid of rock and hillbilly, was first printed in a trade journal in 1956, the year that Presley made a cover recording of "Hound Dog," recorded earlier by Big Mama Thornton.
rockabilly
_____ describing the relaxed California life also provided vicarious pleasure to young whites living in less idyllic parts of the troubled country.
surfing songs
In the context of the British invasion, the remarkable group that came to be known as _____, formed by John Lennon, began as a Liverpool gang more interested in finding trouble than in changing the course of rock and roll.
the beatles
True or false: Fusion brought about serious schisms within the world of jazz.
true
True or false: Gospel's virtuoso instrumentalists blend jazz, rock, country, funk, and hip-hop gestures; and gospel choral singing, full-throated and dramatic, is a thrilling sound.
true
In 1954, Bill Haley and His Comets' cover recording of Joe Turner's R&B hit _____—widely played by radio stations that would not have touched the R&B version—quickly soared to the top of the popular music charts.
"Shake, Rattle, and Roll"
The term _____ refers to the preference of some country musicians to express country concepts in progressive ways.
Alternative country
Which of the following musicians established his reputation with his stunning score for Orson Welles's great film Citizen Kane (1941)?
Bernard Herrmann
Surely one of the most memorable scenes in all of movie history is the murder in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho—brought instantly back to vivid memory for anyone who has seen the film by _____.
Bernard Herrmann's unforgettable music
Rock has been used to accompany films since _____.
Bill Haley and his Comets performed "Rock Around the Clock" in Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Which of the following statements correctly highlight the similarities between black rhythm and blues and white country-western music?
Both were danceable and consistently involved the guitar (acoustic, electric, or amplified). Both were rooted in the South.
Which of the following rock stars pointed rock in a new direction in 1982 with the album Born in the U.S.A?
Bruce Springsteen
Identify the musicians who are best remembered for the music they created for Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
Erich Korngold Max Steiner Alfred Newman
True or false: Unlike white country-western music, black rhythm and blues featured frank lyrics and earthy delivery styles.
F
Identify the views expressed by the female rapper group called Salt-N-Pepa through their songs
Female self-empowerment Stinging criticism of male promiscuity
The term third stream was introduced in 1957 by _____, who, for a time, believed that jazz and classical music should be treated as separate but congenial entities.
Gunther Schuller
Which of the following statements are true about Wynton Marsalis?
He is a classicist who believes that bebop is the foundation of modern jazz.
Identify an accurate statement about Chick Corea.
He is a highly accomplished acoustic piano player and turned toward a wide variety of electronic keyboard instruments during the 1970s.
Identify an accurate statement about Woody Guthrie.
He was determined that only by banding together could common people survive.
Which of the following musicians produced rap songs by exploring the roots of rap music?
Ice T Kirk Franklin
Which of the following statements are true about Henry Threadgill?
In the 1970s, he formed the group Air, a trio that explored African music, ragtime, and assorted other traditional musics. He is a multi-instrumentalist who principally plays saxophone and flute.
Identify an accurate statement about funk music.
It began as a new expression of black consciousness, rooted in soul, often with lyrics referring specifically to interracial issues.
Which of the following statements is true about today's black gospel music.
It sounds better than that of the previous generations owing to higher production standards.
Identify an accurate statement about jazz music during the 1960s.
Jazz musicians placed less emphasis on solo performances accompanied by players who yielded the spotlight until their turn came to take it.
Which of the following events marked the beginning of a neoconservative trend in jazz?
Jazz trumpet player Wynton Marsalis founded a quintet.
_____, an impoverished half African American, half Native American left-handed guitarist from Seattle, famously doused his guitar with lighter fluid and set it on fire at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.
Jimi Hendrix
Identify an accurate statement about the impact of new technology in the field of music.
Previously inconceivable collaborations involving dead artists are possible.
Whereas Thomas A. Dorsey's music and the performances of numerous early male gospel quartets could be described as blues-flavored gospel, in 1955 _____ added highly secular lyrics to an old spiritual, producing a gospel-flavored blues hit, "I Got a Woman."
Ray Charles
Identify features of reggae music
Reggae's African polyrhythms are more complex than that of rhythm and blues. The base lines of reggae are stronger than that of rhythm and blues.
Identify accurate statements about films by 1930.
Some films constituted a sound track with music but no dialogue. Some films included full "talkies" with or without musical accompaniment.
Identify an accurate statement about the musical trends during the 1990s.
The decade saw no defining movements in the history of jazz.
Identify an accurate statement about jazz instrumentation.
The electric organ has become increasingly relevant in jazz.
Which of the following statements is true about the recent trends in the field of jazz?
The emphasis is moving away from virtuosic solos to a collective endeavor.
Identify an accurate statement about the contemporary jazz music scene.
The performances seem to be more about rhythm and interplay than about solos or melodies.
What did Alfred Newman, Max Steiner, and Erich Korngold do to achieve the grandeur characteristic of films of Hollywood's golden era?
They applied the highly romantic European concert music techniques of lush orchestral scoring, rich harmonies, and sweeping melodies.
Identify the ways that the composers of film music use to avoid the awkward position of writing music hardly intended to be heard.
They read the script to understand when and how much music should occur. They scrutinize the film to capitalize better on their first emotional reaction to the film.
Which of the following is true about the trends in music in the 1970s?
Two movements that vied for attention during the 1970s were world music and fusion.
_____ has won Grammy Awards for both jazz and classical recordings, and in 1998 he became the first jazz musician to receive the Pulitzer Prize for music, for his extended composition "Blood on the Fields."
Wynton Marsalis
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues, Genesis, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, and Yes are the English groups who have explored the concept of _____.
art rock
Huddie Ledbetter joined Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and other prominent musicians in the urban folk revival movement due to his _____.
civil rights
Using the lavishly varied sounds of orchestral instruments, composers drew upon a body of musical conventions to produce what became known as the _____.
classical Hollywood film score
John Williams's score for the powerful Holocaust movie Schindler's List (1995) combines _____.
classical and folk-ethnic references
During the 1960s, some jazz musicians shared the conviction that jazz was not necessarily—or primarily—about individual solos, but about rhythm and interplay best expressed by the of several or all members of the ensemble.
collective improvisation
Some film music emanates from a source, such as a radio, phonograph, or musical instrument, apparent to the characters and the audience alike. Such _____, as it is called, often provides a thematic anchor for the images onscreen.
diegetic music
In 2008, Atlantic Records passed a dreaded milestone: More than half of its music sales in the United States were from _____.
digital products, like downloads on iTunes and ring tones for cell phones
, which began as discothèque in France after World War II, may be seen as the result of a romance or a clash between the popular cultures of Europe and America, and between the social elite and the cultural underworld.
disco
In 2001, disco and new wave underwent a dance-floor revival to produce a new abstract music without lyrics referred to as _____.
electronic dance music
Accompanists made frequent references to songs familiar to the audience in silent films, because they knew that familiar songs _____.
evoke associations with their text, time, and mood
A feature of punk is that punk musicians _____.
expressed anger and disillusionment with the social and cultural conditions of their day
Hip-hop artists like The Cool Kids pointed the way for other groups to take a retrospective view of their characteristically forward-looking music through their
extended play (EP)
Although _____ provide an audience with a comfortable frame of reference, the introduction of a pleasing _____ often enhances sales not only of the movie sound track but also of tickets to the film itself.
familiar songs; new song
In the early 1960s, the Newport Folk Festival was the central annual event for those who loved _____.
folk music
By 1965, urban folk singers started addressing rock audiences, reflecting the serious new mood by blending light rock effects with tuneful melodies and protest lyrics in what became known as _____.
folk rock
The rock hits in the movie _____, which surveys four decades of American life from the view of a rock fan of the 1960s, unify the film by identifying periods and styles.
forrest gump
The influential jazz pianist Chick Corea became prominent in _____, forming, in 1970, a popular and influential fusion group, Return to Forever.
fusion
_____ music, also called religious blues, descends from the religious spirituals developed by the slave culture, celebrated later in camp meetings, and later yet in concert environments.
gospel
A characteristic of Kirk Franklin is that _____.
he skillfully melds hip-hop and traditional gospel conventions in his performances
_____ is a culture, usually defined as including B-boying, graffiti writing, DJing, and MCing.
hip-hop
During the 1950s, several important films, including A Streetcar Named Desire (Alex North, 1951), The Man with the Golden Arm (Elmer Bernstein, 1955), Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows, Miles Davis, 1957), and Anatomy of a Murder (Duke Ellington, 1959), were accompanied by _____.
jazz
The soft rock phenomenon of the 1980s known as _____ music provides soothing, repetitious blocks of gentle, unassuming sounds produced by synthesizers or acoustic folk instruments.
new age
The term _____ was loosely applied to several sounds of the mid-1980s, some of which reflected certain characteristics of earlier styles.
new wave
Which of the following types of music most notably affected Michael Convertino's score for Children of a Lesser God (1986)?
new-age music
By the 1950s, many movie scores included or largely consisted of _____, such as "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin' " (sung by Tex Ritter in High Noon) and the title songs from Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).
popular songs
In the 1970s, _____ evolved from the raw, raucous garage band music of the 1960s and from the New York City avant-garde scene.
punk
_____ was born in a small New York bar called CBGB where the musical group called the New York Dolls began performing in 1971.
punk
To effectively raise the level of tension and emotional involvement of the audience in films, Henry Mancini used —those lying halfway between the half steps of the major or minor scale—in Wait Until Dark (1967).
quarter tones
When the MCs (mike controller) began speaking to the rhythm of the music and trading increasingly clever and complex rhymes with one another and with the DJ, was borne
rap
In black music, vocal timbres, rhythms, and vocal inflections all convey meaning, and _____ exploit the entire range of tonal semantics in their delivery styles.
rappers
Which of the following genres of music fused characteristics of North American rock and of African music with elements drawn from a black religious movement called Rastafarianism?
reggae
Alan Freed is credited with coining the term _____ for the new style with which Bill Haley and Elvis Presley revolutionized the popular music world.
rock and roll
Which of the following is a group of female rappers?
salt-n-pepa
Many blacks, resentful of the basically white flavor of the Motown sound, began to perform a kind of updated rhythm and blues. They named it _____, a post-1950s term for black pride and the term with which the music trade magazine Billboard, in 1964, replaced rhythm and blues.
soul
In the context of early sound films, the _____ includes all of the dialogue, sound effects, and music of a film, whereas the _____ refers to the music only.
sound track; film score
To bring the sounds and emotions associated with railroads, horse chases, love scenes, comic predicaments, and other formulaic situations to viewers' minds, musicians used _____.
stock musical phrases and harmonies
Which of the following did John Williams adapt for the modern recording studio to create his stunning scores for the disaster films The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1977), Jaws (1975), Superman (1978), and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
symphony orchestra
_____ modeled their image on the New York Dolls, and projected raw energy, spirit, emotion, and fun; their short, simple, fast, hard-driving songs stayed high on the charts into the early 1980s?
the ramones
Jamaican DJs (disc jockeys) used to entertain crowds by maintaining a steady stream of patter as they changed records, even talking over the records as they spun. The technique is referred to as _____.
toasting
The technique called had far-reaching effects on the development of rap music in the 1970s and 1980s.
toasting
Novel in the early days of hip-hop, scratch DJs, also known as _____, have become artists in their own right.
turntablists
Audiences sometimes accept in films "_____" music that they might reject in the concert hall, finding that dissonant harmonies, wide melodic leaps, instrumental timbres stretched beyond normal limits, and other extreme effects effectively raise their level of tension and emotional involvement.
ultramodern
Which of the following types of musicians were performing folklike music in a polished, suave manner designed to appeal to fans of popular music?
urban folk musicians
A characteristic of Joni Mitchell is that she _____.
used the conventions of blues, rock, and folk to write unconventional songs
The first major American composer of concert music to write for films was _____, who composed the scores for several government-sponsored documentary films, most notably The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936).
virgil thompson
Identify an accurate statement about Anthony Braxton.
He reached a milestone in jazz history by recording a double album of solo alto saxophone music, For Alto, released in 1971.
Identify an accurate statement about Alan Freed's contribution toward rock and roll.
He realized that many white teens preferred rhythm-and-blues hits to mainstream popular music.
Herbie Hancock's album _____ (1973) became the first jazz album to be certified gold and remained for a time the best-selling of all jazz albums.
Headhunters
The late 1960s produced several American groups inspired by the wild, frenzied performances and distorted guitar sounds of the British Led Zeppelin and by the explosive innovations of Jimi Hendrix, whose style became identified as _____.
Heavy Metal
Identify an accurate statement about Elvis Presley.
His appeal, soon after he started performing, became interracial and international.
Jazz pianist, composer, and scholar Billy Taylor refers to _____, in fact, as America's classical music.
jazz
After World War II, teenagers, white and black alike, preferred to invest their spending money in the new black-inspired music referred to as _____.
rhythm and blues
_____ combines jazz and classical music in a manner that allows each style to retain its characteristic qualities.
third stream
In 1962, having replaced their early drummer Pete Best with the already popular _____, the Beatles shared a London performance with Little Richard, recently returned to rock and roll, and became an overnight sensation.
Ringo Starr
The Beach Boys, formed in the early 1960s by _____, included two of his brothers, a cousin, and a friend.
Brian Wilson
Identify an accurate statement about psychedelic rock music.
It began in San Francisco, around 1965, as an attempt to reproduce the sensations experienced by someone under the influence of LSD.
The jazz saxophonist and composer _____ became in a sense the spiritual leader of free jazz during the last years of his short life.
John Coltrane
Identify the musician whose music always sounded like country music, but was never part of the country music establishment.
Johnny Cash
_____ received excellent music training in his teens, though blind from glaucoma from the age of seven.
Ray Charles
Which of the following statements is true about the rhythm and blues ensembles.
The rhythm and blues ensembles were loud and usually featured electrified instruments.
Identify an accurate statement about third stream music.
Third stream music as Schuller conceived it remained in vogue for a short time.
Identify an accurate statement about the 1970s.
This decade experienced a comeback of swing which remains strong today.
Who among the following is generally considered the father of gospel music?
thomas a. dorsey
Woody Guthrie set many of his songs that expressed his opinion of injustice and inequality in American society to _____.
traditional folk and religious tunes