Music 106-02 Chapter 3
Independent local disk jockeys rose to stardom on the local level, supplanting live entertainment, personalities on national network radio
True
The fast-talking, swing-style slang of some disk jockeys served as a formative influence on rap
True
High fidelity recording required...
...
One effect of independent deejays playing Rhythm and Blues was...
...
The advantage of magnetic tape as a recording medium was that...
...
The advantage of transistors over vacuum tubes was that...
...
BMI was the main competitor for?
ASCAP (American of Composers, Authors and Publisher)
The disk jockey most noted for bringing Rhythm and Blues to white audiences, often said to have been the first to apply the term "Rock and Roll" as a name for a style of music, was...
Alan "Moondog" Freed
The chief difference between BMI and it's main competitor was that..
BMI represented black and hillbilly musicians, while its competitor's clientele consisted only of mainstream Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood artist and publishers
During and after the AFM strike and recording ban, focus shifted from?
Big bands fronted by vocalists to vocalists backed up by big bands
BMI stands for?
Broadcast Music Incorporated
In reaction to cross-cultural influences of World War II, major record labels began the aggressive of...
Country and Western music
Recording companies generally ignored local independent disk jockeys, marketing music rather to major radio networks
False
Sp-called "high fidelity" recording allowed record producers to..?
Increase the record's playing time by creating the long-playing (LP) record.
45 RPM "singles" were popular with..
Jukebox manufactures
Three examples of influential independent record labels are...
King, Chess, and Atlantic
The American Federation of Musicians strike and recording ban of 1942 - 1944 was in reaction to?
Radio broadcasters playing recorded music without paying royalties
In the late 1940s, independent record labels flourished by recording a style largely rejected by the major labels. That style was..
Rhythm and Blues
By the 1949, what had been called race music and hillbilly music had been renamed..
Rhythm and Blues, and Country and Western
An important influence of black disk jockeys was..
Their showmanship, seeking to entertain audiences rather than just introduce records
