Chapter 13 SB

___, as both the musician Vincent Furnier and his band were known, delivered overtly sexual heavy-metal rock theatrics

Alice Cooper

Who among the following was known as "Lady Soul" and the "Queen of Soul"?

Aretha Franklin

In 1959, a young black songwriter named _____, formed a company called Motown for the purpose of marketing black rock and roll as aggressively and as lucratively as the products of white musicians.

Berry Gordy, Jr.

Who among the following were Janis Joplin's inspirations?

Bessie Smith Willie Mae Thornton

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

Which of the following statements correctly highlight the similarities between black rhythm and blues and white country-western music? (Check all that apply.)

Both were danceable and consistently involved the guitar (acoustic, electric, or amplified). Both were rooted in the South.

The Beach Boys, formed in the early 1960s by _____, included two of his brothers, a cousin, and a friend.

Brian Wilson

Which of the following events marked the end of the first era of rock and roll music? (Check all that apply.)

Elvis Presley was drafted into the army. Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash.

_____ 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

Identify an accurate statement about gospel music.

It became a branch of rhythm and blues and contributed vitally to both jazz and rock.

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.

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 ___ investigations of 1959 to 1960, which revealed that disc jockeys were routinely accepting money and gifts for playing certain records, tarnished even the popular Dick Clark and virtually destroyed Alan Freed.

Payola

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.

An accurate statement about funk music is that _____.

The guitars and keyboards fill in complex, varied harmonies above a weak bass-guitar line.

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.

True or false: Unlike white country-western music, black rhythm and blues featured frank lyrics and earthy delivery styles.

false

The word ___, from African American slang, suggests raw, sweaty, earthy, back-to-roots.

funk

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 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

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

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

An accurate statement about the doo-wop ensembles such as the Mills Brothers and Ink Spots is that _____.

they had subtle rhythmic backgrounds sung to nonsense syllables

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"

_____, 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

Identify an accurate statement about Jimi Hendrix

He indulged in drugs he believed enhanced his passion and performance skills

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.

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.

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.

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

___, 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

Which of the following events contributed to the end of the heady early days of rock and roll?

Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered

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.

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

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.

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? (Check all that apply.)

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

___ music was characterized by long performances, dramatic light shows, emission from smoke and fog machines, and other special effects.

Psychedelic rock

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

_____ received excellent music training in his teens, though blind from glaucoma from the age of seven.

Ray Charles

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

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

_____, 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

_____ describing the relaxed California life also provided vicarious pleasure to young whites living in less idyllic parts of the troubled country.

Surfing songs

Which of the following is a true statement about surfing songs?

They depicted a relaxed California life and provided pleasure to young whites living in less idyllic parts of the country.

Who among the following is generally considered the father of gospel music?

Thomas A. Dorsey

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

An accurate statement about early soul music is that _____.

it evolved as a new blues style of music

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

An accurate fact about the hit records produced by Motown under the guidance of Berry Gordy, Jr. is that they _____.

were produced efficiently