Music in the Rock Era Chapter test questions
True or False? The so-called "power ballad" was essentially folk song set in a hard rock/heavy metal musical context
False
True or False? There is a very clear distinction between a riff and a melody
False
True or False? Throughout the 1980s, guitar pioneer Eddie Van Halen resisted the use of synthesizers in the band's music
False
Postmodernism
-Challenges the so-called "big story" -was central to many aspects of the 1960s counterculture -asserted itself throughout the rock era
True or False? Both so-called new wave and mainstream rock in the 1970s were both heavily influenced by the rhythmic smoothness of the blues
False
True or False? In spite of their political connections, the PMRC's efforts in the 1980s were largely ineffectual
False
True or False? Independent record labels in the 1950s were not interested in taking risks on new musical ideas
False
True or False? Joan Jett had an enormous career in the 80s in spite of her refusal to make videos for MTV, holding the position that the video "cheapened" the song
False
True or False? MTV made had an unwritten policy of steering clear of politics in the '90s
False
True or False? Many so-called "fusion" bands wrote chart-topping hits in the 1970s
False
True or False? Most of the popular rock music of the 1970s offered very little in the ay of intellectual/aesthetic challenge
False
True or False? Most progressive rock bands are from the United States
False
True or False? Popular rock in the 1970s was almost exclusively focused on the youth market
False
True or False? The Beatles earliest work was motivated by their desire to write lyrics with a deeper meaning than the rock 'n' roll music of the 1950s
False
True or False? The FBI investigation into the Kingsmen's recording of "Louie, Louie" resulted in multiple prosecutions -For hiding the "F" word in their song
False
True or False? The Michael Jackson album Thriller featured guest performances by Madonna and Price
False
True or False? The Rolling Stones were the originators of the concept of "rock opera"
False
True or False? The first visible American youth culture centered around music formed around swing music
False
True or False? The idea of the "supergroup" originated in the 1980s
False
True or False? The larger-than-life image of Buddy Holly made rock 'n' roll seem out of reach for many teens with musical aspirations
False
True or False? The major label marketing model in the early 1960s was dismissive of youth "fads" and focused on the adult market
False
True or False? By the late 1990s, even the purest elements of the music and culture of "alternative" rock had become fully sterilized and marketed by the major record labels and their subsidiaries
True
True or False? By the mid-80s, heavy metal was well on its way to becoming the dominant form of rock
True
True or False? Eric Clapton, along with Jimi Hendrix, are widely considered to be the two players who brought rock guitar to a virtuosic status
True
True or False? Green Day's lyrics are now understood to reflect an updated '90s relationship to punk values
True
True or False? Heavy metal bands were among the first to approach the taboo of serious mental health issues in their lyrics, presaging current stars like Billie Eilish
True
True or False? In many ways, punk rock was a reaction to the success of rock itself
True
True or False? In order to satisfy an audience hungry for expressions musical authenticity, some major record labels launched subsidiary labels under the pretense that they were fledgling indie record labels
True
True or False? John Lennon was particularly enamored with Bob Dylan's early 1960s folk music
True
True or False? Much of the grunge and alternative metal of the early '90s reflects a sense of hopelessness and apathy among the youth culture of the time
True
True or False? Rock is a subjective label that has come to mean many things to many people
True
True or False? The "Brill Building Approach" became a 1960s analogue to the Tin Pan Alley model of the early 20th century
True
True or False? The Beatles' highly experimental "studio years" were foreshadowed by music released on the album Revolver
True
True or False? The Moscow Music Peace Festival has been called "Russia's Woodstock"
True
True or False? The band Heart represented a formidable female presence in the male-dominated world of hard rock
True
True or False? The cultural ethos of "Generation X" had much in common with the counterculture of the '60s but lacked a common unifying cause
True
True or False? The fusion of funk and rock characteristics can be traced back to the 1960s
True
True or False? The genre of R&B that would come to be known as "doo-wop" was the most commerically successful type pf R&B in the 1950s
True
True or False? The growth of punk and its repercussions effectively ended the golden age of art rock/prog.
True
True or False? The minstrel show is generally regarded by music scholars as the first recognized synthesis of African and European musical elements
True
True or False? The modern concept of the self-indulgent "Rock Star" was really born in the 1970s
True
True or False? The original programming idea behind MTV was to basically emulate (obviously in video form) a rock channel on the typical American FM radio dial of the time
True
True or False? The so-called "counterculture" of the 1960s was primary youth-driven
True
True or False? Woody Guthrie is widely regarded as the first "socially conscious" folk musician
True
Rockabilly in the 1950s was:
made popular by singers like Eddie Fisher
Heavy metal, more than any other rock genre, is built on:
power chords and modal progressions
In the late '70s and early '80s, the primary heavy metal fanbase was:
the archetypal "angry young man"
Deep purple's most significant contribution to hard rock was:
the fusion of hard rock with classical and baroque instrumental virtuosity
The 1970s were stereotypically know as the:
"Me Decade"
The 1950s are commonly known as the
"age of conformity"
According to your textbook Jimi Hendrix's guitar playing can be regarded as:
-A "quantum leap forward for rock guitar" -Speeding the development of several styles besides rock -Sonic sculpting -Creating a "new musical vocabulary" for the guitar
In addition to being an international music star, Iron Maiden's lead singer Bruce Dickinson is also:
-commercial airline pilot -successful novelist -internationally competitive fencing champion
Marvin Gaye's seminal album What's Going On:
-was an important musical/lyrical representation of the African American inner-city experience -is a musical amalgam of soul, psychedelia, rock, and blues -is deeply connected to the countercultural ideals
The first white radio jockey (DJ) to play black R&B exclusively on his show was:
Alan Freed
The band/artist best known for pioneering so-called "glam" rock was:
David Bowie
True of False? Janis Joplin had her musical roots in classical opera
False
True or False? AABA song form is the most common form in rock music.
False
True or False? Amid the controversy surrounding the song "Cop Killer", musician Ice-T staunchly refused to remove the song from Body Count's self-titled debut album
False
True or False? Blues rhythms are based on a sixteenth note subdivision
False
True or False? Bob Dylan helped usher in a profound change in the function of studio recording technology, from one of a mere capture of a performance to that of a tool in the creative process itself
False
True or False? Led Zeppelin's drummer, John Bonham, died in a plane crash in 1980
False
No rock musician/band in the twentieth century was more diverse or prolific than:
Frank Zappa
The band to first draw attention to the Seattle scene in the early 1990s was:
Nirvana
A fair amount of alternative rock was deeply connected to what important social movement of the 1990s?
Third-Wave Feminism
True or False? "Classic" blues, as it is known, was the first type of blues to be recorded and popularized
True
True or False? Art rock and progressive rock were often criticized for having forsaken the original unadorned aesthetic of rock
True
True or False? As the 1960s drew to a close, a postmodernist "cultural revolution" had come to pass
True
True or False? By the early 1960s, much contemporary folk music had gained a foothold as music of political and social dissent
True
The music of bruce Springsteen in the 1980s:
addressed working-class issues
A common philosophy among bands in the alternative rock movement of the late '80s and early '90s was that:
commercial success stood in opposition to artistic integrity
