Music 106-02 Chapter 3

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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


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