Music Chapter 14
Professor Griff
"Minister of Information" with the influential hip-hop ensemble Public Enemy until he was forced to resign after making anti-Semitic comments.
Taylor Swift
"Teen idol," singer-songwriter pop phenomenon, and self-identified country artist achieving massive crossover success in the late 2000s.
Heavy Metal
A guitar-led style of blues-flavored rock featuring dense textures, extremely loud volumes, and intense vocals. Pioneered by groups like Led Zeppelin, heavy metal has developed into various streams over the decades including hardcore, speed metal (played by Metallica, Megadeath, and Anthrax), thrash metal and so on.
Alternative music
A term that is used across a wide range of popular genres used to describe (and to positively valorize) music that, in one regard or another, challenges the status quo.
Krist Novoselic
Bassist and cofounder of the Seattle-based band Nirvana.
k. d. lang
Canadian recording artist whose early work showcases the influence of Patsy Cline who later recorded successful pop material.
Gretchen Wilson
Country singer known for songs like "Redneck Woman."
Jam Master Jay
DJ known for his influential work with the hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C.
Terminator X
DJ with the influential hip-hop group Public Enemy.
Which 1998 song by Lauryn Hill combines aspects of 1950's R&B with penetrating observations about male and female behavior?
Doo Wop (That Thing).
Dave Grohl
Drummer well known for his work with Nirvana and the Foo Fighters.
Ani DiFranco
Folk singer known for critically recognized albums like Not a Pretty Girl and the successful live album Living in Clip.
"Eazy-E" Wright
Former drug dealer, member of N.W.A. (*****z With Attitude), and later solo rap artist in the 1990s.
Ali Farka Touré
Guitarist and traditional praise singer (griot) from the West African nation of Mali.
Which genre refers to an extreme variation of punk pioneered during the 1980's by bands like the Dead Kennedys, the Germs, Black Flag, X, and the ******** Surfers featuring riff-based songs played at fast tempos?
Hardcore.
M. C. Hammer
Hip-hop crossover artist whose 1990 album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em became the best-selling hip-hop album of all time.
Ravi Shankar
Indian classical musician who released the album Live at the Monterey Pop Festival, which reached number forty-three in 1967.
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Influential West-coast rapper known for his laid-back but lethal persona who emerged in the 1990s initially as a protégé of Dr. Dre.
Ralph Stanley
Influential bluegrass musician featured on the soundtrack to the movie O Brother Where Art Thou?
Union Station
Influential bluegrass-inspired ensemble featuring Allison Krauss.
Johnny Cash
Influential country/rockabilly recording artist and television host who first found success in the 1950s and experienced a career resurgence in the 1990s.
Public Enemy
Influential hip-hop ensemble emerging in the late 1980s known for trenchant social and political commentary, sophisticated work-play, and dense, complex beats.
Dholak (or tabla)
double headed drum accompanying qawwali singing
King Sunny Adé
Leader of a Nigerian group called the African Beats who released Juju Music in 1982.
Chuck D
MC and songwriter best known for his work with Public Enemy.
Flavor Flav
MC who provided streetwise commentary on recordings by Public Enemy.
Run
MC with the breakout hip-hop ensemble Run-D.M.C.
D.M.C.
MC with the breakout hip-hop trio Run-D.M.C. known for his edgy, rapid-fire delivery.
House music
Musical genre named after the a popular gay dance club called Warehouse pioneered by Frankie Knuckles.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Musical performer and Sufi mystic who became the first qawwali artist to command a large international following.
Grunge rock
Musical style that emerged from Seattle in the 1980s and 1990s blending heavy metal guitar textures with hardcore punk.
World music
Musical term used in the marketplace as a replacement for longer-standing categories such as "traditional music," "international music," and "ethnic music."
George Strait
Texas-born country singer whose songs specifically acknowledge his country backgrounds and country traditions.
Which band heralded the emergence of West Coast gangsta rap by the release of the album Straight Outta Compton in 1989?__________
NWA
Which so-called grunge rock band from the state of Washington achieved a commercial breakthrough for alternative rock in the early 1990's with the album Nevermind? ___________
Nirvana
Toby Keith
Oklahoma-born country performer whose music suggests a strong continuity with honky-tonk and frequently incorporates a strong backbeat.
Run-D.M.C.
Perhaps the most influential act in the history of rap music who established a hard-edged, rock-influenced style that was to influence profoundly the sound and sensibility of later rap music.
The Bomb Squad
Public Enemy's production team
Socially engaged rap which 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.
Which influential alternative band from Athens, Georgia famously signed a ten-million-dollar, 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..
O'Shea "Ice Cube" Jackson
Rapper and actor best known as a founding member of the gangsta rap ensemble N.W.A. (*****z With Attitude).
Which trio consisting of MC Run, D.M.C., and Jam Master Jay released the multiplatinum rap album Raising Hell in 1986?__________
Run-DMC
Ry Cooder
Singer and guitarist who produced the album Talking Timbuktu.
Eddie Vedder
Singer best known for his work with Pearl Jam.
Kurt Cobain
Singer, guitarist, and cofounder of the Seattle-based band Nirvana whose suicide deeply affected many music fans.
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 like "What's My Name?" and albums like Doggystyle (1993).
Snoop Doggy Dog.
Which rapper's soft drawl and laid-back-but-lethal gangster persona were featured on the gold single "What's My Name?" from his 1993 album Doggystyle?
Snoop Doggy Dogg
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.
Andre "Dr. Dre" Young
The influential and economically successful member of N.W.A who founded an independent record label (Death Row/Interscope) and developed a distinctive hip-hop production style, christened "G-Funk."
Jello Biafra
The lead singer of the Dead Kennedys
Queen Latifah
The most important woman in the history of hip-hop, in terms of both her commercial success and her effectiveness in establishing a feminist beachhead on the male-dominated field of rap music.
In which region of the U.S.A. did artists like Juan Atkins and Derrick May develop techno music?
Upper Mid-West.
Techno
Uptempo, repetitive, electronic dance music that developed in various urban club scenes during the late 1980s and early 90s
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.
Alan Jackson
Versatile country singer from Georgia who sings in a full-voiced manner, clearly articulating the lyrics.
Alison Krauss
Vocalist and fiddler who demonstrates both her close connections to traditional bluegrass and her interest in creating a distinctive and original development of those connections in her work with the band Union Station.
Which 1986 hit song featured a collaborationbetween hip-hop pioneers Run-D.M.C. and the hard rock group Aerosmith as well as aan influential music video which played a pivotal role in mainstreaming rap music?
Walk This Way.
With which region of the U.S.A. were gangsta rap groups like N.W.A. (*****z With Attitude) associated?
West Coast.
"set trippin"
conflict between members of the same posse
Vanilla Ice
White rapper considered hip-hop's icon of "wackness" (weakness) who achieved massive commercial success with his album To the Extreme (1990).
Security of the First World (S1W)
a cohort of dancers who dressed in paramilitary uniforms, carried Uzi submachine guns, and performed martial arts-inspired choreography
E-mu Proteus/3 World
a digital device programmed with hundreds of samples of world music
qawwali
a genre of mystical singing practiced by Sufi Muslims in Pakistan and India
Gangsta Rap
a marginal variant of hip-hop that generated millions of dollars in profits.
"da bomb"
a phrase commonly used to describe compelling grooves and other pleasurable experiences
Mash-up
a recording that digitally combines two or more preexisting tracks, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song over the music track of another
Hardcore
an extreme variation of punk that was pioneered during the early 80s by bands in San Francisco (The Dead Kennedys) and Los Angeles (the Germs, Black Flag, X, and the Circle Jerks)
Thrash
blended the fast tempos and rebellious attitude of hardcore with the technical virtuosity of heavy metal guitar playing. A harder, faster version of the commercially successful speed metal
"street knowledge"
firsthand experience of the urban culture that spawned rap music
Cumbia
genre originated in Columbia and eventually becoming popular throughout Latin America
"perpetrating"
inventing a "gangsta" image
Harmonium
portable keyboard accompanying qawwali singing
Ranchera
romantic Mexican song tradition
Raves
semipublic events that are partly modeled on the be-ins of the 1960s counterculture and are one of the main venues for techno music.
"base"
short hand reference to the term "freebase" or cocaine
Which band lead by singer Jello Biafra recorded the song "Holiday in Cambodia?" __________
the Dead Kennedys
The Source
the first magazine devoted solely to hip-hop music and fashion
Griot
traditional praise singer from West African nation of Mali
