Chapter 14 (Exam 3)

Listen to the first 25 seconds of "What's My Name," by Snoop Doggy Dog. Which artist's work is sampled here?

Clinton

Country artists George Strait, Toby Keith, and Alan Jackson make use of the traditional "hillbilly" yodeling in their music from the 1990s.

False

The band Nirvana handled their meteoric rise to success well and embraced their new fans.

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 Buthole Surfers featuring riff-based songs played at fast tempos?

Hardcore

Listen to the first 30 seconds from "Holiday in Cambodia," by Dead Kennedys. Which famous guitarist inspired the sonic landscape of this opening section?

Hendrix

Which of the following is NOT true about Snoop Dogg?

His hit single "What's My Name?" features digital samples of dozens of pre-recorded sources

What event in 1988 brought an important milestone in the development of hip-hop as a mainstream art form?

MTV's newly-launched show, Yo! MTV Raps

Which statement about Ani DiFranco's life and career is NOT true?

She began performing publicly at age nineteen.

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

Listen to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," by Nirvana, focusing on the change from B to C sections that occurs between about :50 and 1:15. What musical practice does the band use to mark this formal change?

Textural shift in instrumentation

Listen to "Night of the Living Baseheads," by Public Enemy, focusing on the segment starting at 1:09 and ending at 1:50. Which statement about this piece is NOT true?

The rappers glorify the lifestyle of the urban drug dealer, crediting them with ingenuity in the face of systemic economic oppression.

Consider the following statement and choose the best response: "NWA's Straight Outta Compton, which is saturated with images of sex and violence, was intended to establish a distinctive West Coast identity within hip hop."

The statement is true

Listen to "Doo Wop (That Thing)," by Lauryn Hill. Focus on the segment from about 48 seconds to about 1:22. Which of the following is NOT a musical or textual component of this song?

The use of harps

Which of the following is NOT true about the band R.E.M.?

They famously rejected a $10 million, five-album agreement with Warner Brothers in 1988

Bluegrass artists Ralph Stanley and Alison Krauss are both featured on the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou.

True

k.d. lang remained on the margins of mainstream country music, despite her embrace of country music history and use of a traditional honky-tonk sound.

True

In which region of the United States did artists like Juan Atkins and Derrick May develop techno music?

Upper Midwest

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

Which 1998 song by Lauryn Hill combines aspects of 1950s R&B with penetrating observations about male and female behavior?

"Doo Woop (That Thing)"

Listen to "U.N.I.T.Y.," by Queen Latifah, and focus on the segment from between about 19 seconds and 40 seconds. What rhythmic device is used here?

backbeat

Listen to "Walk This Way," by Run-D.M.C, focusing on the final segment of the song. The instrument featured is a(n) played by

electric guitar Joe Perry