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American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MTV Text & Audio CDs

If we compare the pop mucis business of the 1850?s minstrel
show with pop music busness of 1980?s mtv, which are reqiored for both business
practices?

�� Mass dissemination

A genre of music that few people associate with heavy metal, but is most
important musical roots, historically,:�

blues

Which inventions hit the market first?�

Gramophone

Which type of music dominated MTV when first aired?��

Rock and metal

The innovation that most clearly distinghuished rap/hip-hop from
previous forms of expressive speech and music was:

looping break beats between two turntables

The success of this artist?s videos (helped by a boycott threat from his
recording comp) opend the way for more AF American singers and musicians on
MTV:�

Michael Jackson

Which of the following song forms is most often used by professional of
TPA songwriters?

AABA

What do the folloring artists/bands have in common? elvis, muddy waters
and nirvana?�

They made their first recordings on independent record labels

The conventional 3 min song length that is typical of most pop music
today is most obvisously traceable to:�

the max playing time of early gramophone records

Which of the following musicians brought a distinctibely regional style
to international attention?�

Bob Marley

Which of the following do punk, heavy metal and disco have in common?�

They were significatntly shaped by trans atlantic sharing of
musical ideas (btwn US and Europe)

While country music and so called ?Folk Music Movement? in the US both
have strong ties to Anglo-American folk music, they have come to be seen as
virtual opposties in this regard:�

politics

What do electronica, hip/hop, and disco have in common?�

Their basis in DJ practices

Which is not true of micheal Jackson?�

His thriller album was produced by Phil Spector

MTV first when on air in:�

1981

George Clinton/parliament?s live shows did not include:�

carefully choreographed dance movements by musicans

Which of the follow is not true about disco

did not die after disco demolition and had little influence
on any subsequent music

When we say ?Latino Percussion? we refer to instruments like songas,
bongos, timbales, we are talking about instruments that come from which region
of latin America?�

Caribbean�

Why did turntablism develop, beginning in the 1980?s, as a separate art
form from rapping?�

Recorded rap music used studio sampling instead of live DJs

Fans of this genre tend to reject the commercial music industry, and to
believe instead in the principle of DIY (do it yourself):

punk

Which of the following ?rap? music relatives has the least direct ties
to the Caribbean:�

banda rap,��
does: hip hop, reggaeton, Spanish rap

A singer and actor whose 1972 movie helped make reggae music popular
internationally:�

jimmy cliff

Sly and the family stone, from�

san fransisco

which of the following funk innovations, heard here, is attributed to
this band?s bass player?�

1.��
Thumb slapping

1.��
Band from London, simple chord progressions and
untrained vocals were: a model of the DIY aesthetic, this band made an
influential concert tour of the US in: 1978

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