Pop Music Final

Which song by Peter Gabriel featured an eye-catching, technically innovative video combining stop-motion techniques, live action, and unusual footage, like enlarged microscopic images of human sperm cells impregnating an egg?

"Sledgehammer"

Which early 1980s hit by the Eurythmics featured androgynous singer Annie Lennox, a booming steady pulse, overdubbed harmonies, and hints of a darkly sadomasochistic relationship?

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"

Which 1986 hit song featured a collaboration between hip-hop pioneers Run DMC and the hard rock group Aerosmith as well as an influential music video that played a pivotal role in mainstreaming rap music?

"Walk This Way"

In which year did revenue from the streaming of music in the United States surpass all other sources?

2015

What musician or band discussed in this chapter talked about Moby's album Play as a major influence?

Adele

Who became the top music retailer in the United States in 2008?

Apple iTunes store

ASCAP and _______ are the two performing-rights organizations that reasserted their relevance in 2015, by announcing that during the previous year they had tracked and processed a combined one trillion individual performances of songs across all platforms, generating $1.7 billion in royalty payments to members.

BMI

Hip-hop artist, Kendrick Lamar, the rapper who has reaffirmed the artistic potential of the genre and its community-oriented, consciousness-raising heritage, was raised in _______, California.

Compton

_______ recording, unlike analog recording, led to the invention of the CD, as it takes sound waves and breaks them down into a stream of numbers (0s and 1s).

Digital

Which recording process samples sound waves and breaks them down into a stream of 0s and 1s?

Digital Recording

Which is true about the music business in the 2010s?

Downloading music is being supplanted by streaming

Despite their immense popularity, the Canadian band Arcade Fire never received a Grammy award for any of their albums.

False

Madonna's mega-success in the popular music realm can be attributed to the fact that she was born into a wealthy and highly influential family that provided support for all her artistic endeavors along the duration of her long career.

False

On his album Thriller, Michael Jackson worked with veteran producer Berry Gordy to create an album that achieved boundary-crossing popularity.

False

Queen Latifah was a latecomer to rap music and had already established herself as a successful actor in the Hollywood entertainment world before entering the hip-hop scene.

False

Synth-pop is the first type of popular music explicitly defined by its blending of acoustic folk idioms and jazz-rock sounds.

False

The technology that led to the invention of synthesizers, keyboards, samplers and sequencers in the 1980s was not available for drum machines until well into the 1990s.

False

The term alternative in music was used by recording companies to promote and sell to older, more conservative audiences.

False

While Eminem has achieved great commercial success, he has largely failed to achieve acceptance in the hip-hop community.

False

iTunes is a fee-based music downloading service, designed to supply content to the iPod, which was an IBM product originally developed by Bill Gates.

False

Which genre refers to an extreme variation of punk pioneered during the 1980s by bands like the Dead Kennedys, the Germs, Black Flag, X, and the B*tthole Surfers featuring riff-based songs played at fast tempos?

Hardcore

Which of the following is true about Auto-Tune?

It is software used to correct a singer's pitch and create interesting effects.

The successful pop song, "_______," was written by Lionel Richie, and later performed by Kenny Rogers in 1980, topping the charts in the adult contemporary genre.

Lady

Which recording artist penned two Top 40 country hits in the 1980s, including "Lady," which was recorded by Kenny Rogers?

Lionel Richie

Which digital format allows sound files to be compressed to as little as one-twelfth of their original size?

MP3

In the 1980s _______, a new television-based format for popular music, forever changed the way the music industry operated, rapidly becoming the preferred method for launching a new act or promoting the latest release.MTV

MTV

Which cable television network debuted in 1981 and changed the way the music industry operated?

MTV

Who debuted the "moonwalk" at a Motown reunion concert in 1983?

Michael Jackson

Inspired by the counterculture of the 1960s and improvisational work of jazz musicians, the band _______ created a loyal following by extending the approach of the Grateful Dead, embracing eclectic tastes and influences, and devoting themselves to long instrumental sections of improvisation in their performances.

Phish

Socially engaged rap that chronicled the declining fortunes of the urban black community in songs like "Night of the Living Baseheads" is a contribution of which New York-based rap group?

Public Enemy

The hip-hop group _______ was founded in 1982, organized around a core set of members who met as college students, and were drawn together by their interest in hip-hop culture and political activism.

Public Enemy

Which influential alternative band from Athens, Georgia, famously signed a $10 million, five-album agreement with Warner Brothers in 1988 and in 1991 released a number one album, Out of Time, which spawned two Top 10 singles?

R.E.M.

Which band recorded the song "Bodysnatchers" that begins with a "bone-crunching" electric guitar riff?

Radiohead

Which is true about the music industry in the 1980s?

Sales of pre-recorded cassettes first surpassed those of vinyl discs.

Which hip-hop artist was introduced on Dr. Dre's 1992 album The Chronic and made use of a laid-back-but-lethal gangster persona on hit singles such as "What's My Name?" and the album Doggystyle (1993)?

Snoop Doggy Dog

Which New York-based indie band formed in 1981, developed a feedback-drenched sound, ignored conventional song structures, and released the album Experimental Jet Set, Trash, and No Star in 1994?

Sonic Youth

_______ is a streaming service launched in Europe in 2008, and in the United States in 2011, allowing listeners to pick and choose the tracks they want to listen to and offering both a free and paid "premium" service.

Spotify

Why did Philip Bashe, an expert on heavy metal music, describe the song "Jump" as "a brave test of the Van Halen audience's loyalty"?

The song's main instrumental melody is played on a synthesizer.

Which of the following is true about Napster and similar entities?

They allow users to share music files

_______ was a harder, faster form of alternative rock that emerged in the 1990s that blended the fast tempos and rebellious attitude of hardcore with the technical virtuosity of heavy metal guitar playing.

Thrash

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. is a roots-based rock album that depicts adult working-class Americans whose better days are behind them.

True

Hip-hop artist, Jay-Z, has sold over 50 million albums and holds the record for the most Grammy Awards won by a hip-hop artist as well as the most Number 1 albums on the Billboard 200 by any solo artist.

True

Hip-hop musician Drake is a Canadian artist whose work combines egocentric, abrasive rapping and R&B-influenced singing and features collaborations with British, African, and Caribbean artists.

True

In the 1990s, some established older artists, such as Johnny Cash, were able to expand their fan base to include new, younger listeners.

True

Kenny Rogers was a Texas-born veteran of folk pop groups and one of the main beneficiaries of country pop's increasing mainstream appeal.

True

Michael Jackson's mega hit album Thriller (1982) forced a change in MTV's all-white rock music format. Group of answer choices

True

Missy Elliott's debut solo record, Supa Dupa Fly (1997), went platinum, illustrating why she is a four-time Grammy-winning rapper and producer.

True

One of the results of the rise in technology during 1980s that revolutionized the industry was the invention of the CD (compact disc), in which the sounds that are encoded are read by a laser beam and are not subject to the same wear and tear as vinyl.

True

Paul Simon's Graceland can be considered a "global" album in that it was recorded in five different locations on three different continents.

True

Pop superstar Prince was one of the most prolific artists of the 1980s—he composed, performed, and recorded more than 75 songs each year, and produced an average of over an album per year.

True

Pop superstar, Lady Gaga, used YouTube to build her enormous international fan base, producing videos specifically for the YouTube medium.

True

The band Nirvana can be credited with producing two multiplatinum albums that moved alternative rock's blend of hardcore punk and metal into the commercial mainstream.

True

The band Radiohead began their career firmly within the boundaries of alternative rock, and later experimented not only with diverse musical influences but also with varied approaches to marketing and distribution of their music.

True

The invention of home recording software, like Pro Tools, enabled amateur musicians possibilities of recording on personal computers, allowing for those working on a limited budget to set up a basic home studio at relatively little expense.

True

The narratives of gangsta rap often centered on dilemmas faced by urban communities, like poverty, drug addiction, and violence.

True

The recent resurgence of consumer interest in the vinyl 33- rpm LP is illustrated in the fact that in 2019, seven of the Top Ten chart spots were occupied by rock and pop bands, with only one of the Top Ten recorded in the new millennium.

True

Which of the following "Ices" is a white rapper who achieved commercial success in 1990 with the album To the Extreme and is considered hip-hop's icon of "wackness" (weakness)?

Vanilla Ice

For which of the following is Eddie Van Halen known?

Virtuosic heavy metal guitar playing

With which region of the United States were gangsta rap groups like N.W.A. associated?

West Coast

The 1980s saw the introduction of which wildly popular digital synthesizer?

Yamaha DX-7

Which of the following is a major outlet for popular music in the 2020s?

YouTube

_______ were stark and powerful, mixed digitized loops of hard-rock drumming with searing guitar sounds from heavy metal, featured on Run DMC recordings in the early years of hip-hop.

beats

The musical form of many pop songs composed in the 1980s followed the basic verse and _______ structure—a throwback to pre-rock era of soft and sentimental song style.

chorus

The sounds of _______ machines were ubiquitous on 1980s dance music and rap recordings, and they relied on electronic pads that can be struck and activated by the performer.

drum

The defining musical characteristics of the emo subgenres of music never crossed over into the rap and hip-hop realms.

false

"Hey Ya," written and produced by André 3000 and performed by Outkast, is unique in that it is categorized as a hip-hop song but contains no _______.

rap

The process of taking a portion of a sound recording and reusing it as a part of a new recording was known as _______ and was employed heavily by rap producers to weave sound textures out of pre-recorded material.

sampling