Mus 301, test 2
What is probably Dylan's best-known song and who introduced it to pop fans?
" peter paul and mary", blowin in the wind
What did novelist Tom Wolfe call the 1970s and why did he call it that?
"the me decade" a shift of counterculture towards more materialistic and conservative attitudes
What is the Rolling Stones' most famous record and what are its distinguishing characteristics?
(I can't get no) satisfaction. General stick it to the man attitude, sexual connotations and anti-commercialism
Describe Pet Sounds
1 st concept album, symphonic cycle of songs, charts progression of youthful optimism
What four events in 1965 moved Dylan from urban folk artist to being an epochal influence on rock music?
1. release of albums "bringin it all back" 2.trademark guitar in tamborine 3. like a rolling stone 4.live performance
What were the most direct, formative influences on the music of the Beatles and other British bands of the 1960s
1950's American Rock and Roll
What year was the Summer of Love?
1967
What distinguished the Beatles from other artists of their era?
1st Rock "group"
What was the British Invasion?
All the Brit rock groups flooding the American scene
Who does your textbook call "the quintessential southern rock group" and who led that group?
Allman Brothers Band lead by Duane Allman
What was the name for the mass adulation that the Beatles inspired in their fans?
Beatlemania
Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan
Who was the first rock musician to sustain his career through albums rather than singles?
Bob Dylan
What was the house band at Stax Records?
Booker T and the MG's
What was the first widely successful "roots" rock 'n' roll band?
CCR
What Brill Building Pop songwriter achieved great fame and success as a singer-songwriter in the 1970s?
Carole King
Briefly describe Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
Coherence of the album derives more from the imaginative and magnetic persona of the singer and his character than from the music itself.
Crossroads
Cream
What band did Clapton play in from 1966 to 1968?
Cream
Who established the concert as a venue for experiencing rock music?
Cream, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Doors
What were the Grateful Dead's fans called and what distinguished them from typical rock fans?
Deadheads, followed the band while they toured in colorful vans, they loved the band.
What symbolized the end of the counterculture for rock fans?
Deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison, and the break up of the Beatles (from 70 to 71)
On what musical style was Cream a major influence?
Early Heavy metal Music
Who does your textbook call "the most influential of the young British guitarists who emerged during the mid-1960s"?
Eric Clapton
What characterized James Brown's music in the late 1960s?
Exciting and energetic, much like little Richard
What does your textbook cite as examples of Dylan's significance to rock culture?
Expanded acceptable subject matter for rock n roll Raised the possibilities of rock n roll being art New source of identity for rock n roll
What did Jimi Hendrix add to the musical techniques and materials available to guitarists?
Feedback and distortion, wah-wah pedal and a fuzz box.
What incident put a definitive end to the era of Peace and Love?
Free concert at Altamont Speedway by the rolling stones, where the hells angels "security" killed a young black man.
Who was the Beatles' producer and why was he sometimes called "the fifth Beatle"?
George Martin, he helped during the recording process and added to the songs uniqueness
What was glam rock?
Glamour Rock: Rock that emphasizes the elaborate, showy personal appearance and costuming of its practitioners
What is the bottleneck technique of guitar playing?
Glass bottle over the finger, allows smooth glides between pitches
What is probably the Beach Boys' most famous song?
Good Vibrations
What does your textbook call "the most thoroughly innovative single" of the 1960s?
Good Vibrations- The Beach Boys
Who does the textbook call the "quintessential 'live' band"?
Grateful Dead
How did Dylan influence rock music?
He fused rock and folk music
According to your textbook, what is most important about Aretha Franklin?
Her overwhelming power and intensity of her vocal delivery.
What soul performer had the most influence on funk and hip-hop?
James Brown
Who does your textbook say "exulted and excelled in live performance"?
James Brown
Who was the singer in Big Brother and the Holding Company?
Janis Joplin
What musical styles was Carlos Santana influenced by?
Jazz, salsa, Latin, afro Cuban and SF rock
What other guitarists also played in that band?
Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page
What was the first nationally successful band to emerge out of the San Francisco scene?
Jefferson Airplane
According to your textbook, who was "the most original, inventive and influential guitarist of the rock era"?
Jimi Hendrix
Who was the guitarist in Led Zeppelin?
Jimmy Page- guitar Robert Plant- vocals John Bonham- Drums John Paul Jones- keyboard
Who was the drummer and lead singer in Led Zeppelin and what did each establish in heavy metal?
John Bonham: established the thunderous sound of heavy metal drumming Robert Plant: high-tenor voice that led way for modern heavy metal
Who were the Beatles' chief songwriters?
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Who were the members of the Beatles and what did each play?
John Lennon- guitar, George Harrison-lead guitar, Paul McCartney=bass player ringo-drums
Stairway To Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Compare and contrast Stax Records and Motown Records.
Motown wanted to fit in mainstream and have a mainstream audience for recordings and performances. "sound of young America" while Stax "sound of black America" Stax sought for a less mainstream audience and used the traditional African American radio. Stax employed white folk who emphasized commitment to African American community. Motown, black who employed black people but more focused on the mainstream
What was the first folk-rock hit, who recorded it, and who wrote it?
Mr. Tambourine man Bob dylan wrote it The Byrds performed it
What were the two main categories of consumers of popular music in the 1970s?
New generation of teens (born in the late 1950s and early 60s) Adults aged 25-40, who grew up w/ Rock n Roll and were looking for more mature music
What was different about the venues used by the San Francisco bands?
Older large ballrooms, with no seat, room for a bar etc.
What did Paul McCartney call the single greatest influence on Sgt. Pepper?
Pet Sounds
What marked the onset of a decline in Brian Wilson's productivity and achievement?
Pet Sounds
Who were the foremost exponents of stadium rock?
Peter Frampton and KISS
Whose influence on Brian Wilson can be clearly heard in "Good Vibrations"?
Phil Spector = The Beatles
What was the instrumentation of Cream and what was that instrumentation called?
Power trios, guitar,bass, drums
What was the music played by the San Francisco bands sometimes called?
Psychedelic rock
Cross Road Blues
Robert Johnson
What country blues artist had the most influence on rock musicians?
Robert Johnson
What was the primary source of profit for the entertainment industry in the 1970s?
Rock Music
What is stadium rock and what is its defining characteristic?
Rock music designed to sound best in stadiums
Where was the center of the counterculture?
SF's Haight Ashbury neighborhood
Oye Como Va
Santana
What influenced the lyrics of "Stairway To Heaven"?
Scholarly tomes like "Magic Arts in Celtic Britain"
What was the first album to present itself as a complete and unified marketing package and what were the components of that package?
Sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band. Album, inside photo of the band in uniforms, complete song lyrics, inner psychedelic sleeve, and Sgt pepper cutouts
What did Aretha Franklin contribute to the sound and production of her records in addition to her vocals?
She wrote or co-wrote, keyboard player, and was in charge of vocal arrangement. She not only symbolized female empowerment she actualized it. inspired rising female singers
What was the most historically significant fact about Sgt. Pepper?
Shifted focus from single song on album to entire masterpiece of an album.
Cream's recording of "Crossroads" was designed to showcase what?
Showcase the virtuosity of the performers
What does the textbook call an "important exception to the general popular appeal of rock music"?
Soul Radio
What did 1970s albums by Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, and Stevie Wonder demonstrate?
Soul and R&B albums could provide artistic coherence that transcended the 3-minute single. Opened the possibility that popular music might still have something to do with social change, as well as money making and artistic self-expression.
What was the most frequently requested song on FM radio during the 1970s?
Stairway to Heaven
What record company "in many ways exemplified the southern soul sound" and who were some of the artists who recorded for it?
Stax Records - Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding
Statesboro Blues
The Allman Brothers Band
Good Vibrations
The Beach Boys
A hard day's night
The Beatles
Eleanore Rigby
The Beatles
Please please me
The Beatles
What group does your textbook call the most popular and innovative band in rock and roll history?
The Beatles
Yesterday
The Beatles
What does your textbook call "the epochal musical event of 1960s America"?
The Beatles arriving on US soil
What album stayed on the charts longer than any other and who recorded it?
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Hotel California
The Eagles
What group epitomized the culture of Southern California in the 1970s?
The Eagles
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The Rolling Stones
In what band did Eric Clapton first attract notice?
The Yardbirds
What factors led to the rise of singer-songwriters and soft rock?
The idea that a relaxed, mature musical style that focused on intimacy is both sound and lyrical content could be considered rock A lot of rock listeners wanted the rock era to relax.
Why did the Dead allow and even encourage their fans to record the band's concerts?
The recordings were helping, not hurting them. Increase popularity and spread.
What is feedback?
The sound created when a transducer, such as a microphone or the pickup of an electric guitar, picks up sound from a speaker connected to an amplifier and regenerates it back through the amplifier.
How do the Eagles serve as an example of the importance of albums over singles in the 1970s?
Their first compilation album of singles "Eagles/Their Greatest Hits" sold way more than all of its hits. Sold 42 million copies world-wide
What led the Beatles to achieve an unmatched level of popularity?
They identified with their audience, were just like them, shared themselves as people, rather than stars.
Who was the biggest celebrity in the Jefferson Airplane?
Vocalist Grace Slick
What aspects of Sgt. Pepper were emblematic of the counterculture?
Wild collage album cover with faces of past counterculture historical figures, Dressed in full formal band regalia, Druggie songs with druggie lyrics.
What Beatles song has had the most wide-ranging and enduring popularity?
Yesterday
What is a counterculture and how is that term most often used?
a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm. Used to describe values and lifestyles of young people in 60's and 70's
What is a concept album?
album conceived as its integrated whole, integrated songs arranged in deliberate sequence
hit singles
albums
What made folk music appeal to college students in the early 1960s?
anti-commercial associated with social and political issues,
Why was the early 1960s "a period of explosive growth for acoustic urban folk music"?
baby boomers reaching college
What kind of an image did the Rolling Stones have in the 1960s and with whom was it meant to contrast?
bad boys, contrast the beatles
In what ways were Sly Stone, his band, and his music unique in the late sixties and early seventies?
brought african american and latin american perspective back to rock.combined rock, soul, and funk music. Group was made up intentionally by people from different backgrounds.
What qualities did Dylan bring into rock 'n' roll from folk music?
brought political poetry maturity and sincerity to rock n roll
What is distortion?
buzzing, crunching, fuzzy tone in hard rock or heavy metal
simple, straightforward lyrics
complex, poetic lyrics
Summarize how rock changed in the late sixties.
cultural, social, and economic influences
What was new or unusual about the Beatles' "Yesterday"?
evokes tin pan alley modules, although the melodies used a wider range of chords than tin pan alley used.
What expectation did the Beatles' sudden popularity lead to?
expectation for bands to play their own music
focus is always on the singer and the song
focus can be on instrumentalists
Singers with good voices
great singers, not good voices
What does the essential nature of rock music in the definition of the counterculture demonstrate?
identification of baby boomer generation and the music they chose to make and hear
What is dissonance?
lack of harmony among musical notes
What record put an end to restrictions on length, subject matter and poetic diction in pop records?
like a rolling stone
Why did many young people in the early 1960s move on from rock 'n' roll as they became adults?
music no longer spoke to them as adults wanted something more sophisticated
Why is folk music, "by definition, the music of 'the people'"?
no barrier between performers and audience. portable guitar lyrics heard clearly
What made Bob Dylan stand out from other urban folk artists in the early 1960s?
original songs, own rough style of performance aggressive voice
Why did folk musicians favor acoustic guitars?
portable, audience could easily hear lyrics
What was the Beach Boys' response to Rubber Soul?
recorded pet sounds, rocks first conceptual album
Recording-medium for transmitting message
recording is the message
Why was Dylan's move to rock 'n' roll seen as a betrayal by many in the folk music community?
rejected folk music to embrace silly teen pop rock n roll.
Why did the term "rock" begin to be used in the late sixties instead of "rock 'n' roll"?
represented a maturity of the genre. it was the root tradition of other genres
solo singers or singing groups
self contained bands
Why were Dylan's early songs introduced to Top 40 audiences by other performers?
smoother performance compared to Dylan's rough sounds
love songs
songs about anything
Short songs
songs of any length
What effect does the strength of Aretha Franklin's vocal interpretations have on the meaning of her records?
songs were political and social meaning, empowerment of women and black females
What does your textbook call "the first of many developments that may be seen as indicative of an accelerating receptivity in America to overt pop music influences from all over the world"?
the British Invasion
What does your textbook call "the central fact of American pop culture in the 1960s"?
the beatles impact popularity and individuality
What is "bottleneck" guitar playing and in what musical genre did it originate?
the bottleneck on finger and slide originated from Blues
What part of the song was of "paramount importance in folk music"?
the lyrics
What are the unusual aspects of "Good Vibrations"?
the vocal arrangement, instruments were organs, flutes and siren like instruments
