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What is the term given to the resulting population bulge from births resulting from the end of WWII?
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Baby boom
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What generation was the first generation that was raised almost entirely on rock music?
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Baby boomers
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What is the term that describes an explosion of alternatives?
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Fragmentation
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What is the term given to the philosophy that there is no absolute right or wrong? what was right or wrong varied according to the situation?
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Situational ethics
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What was the buzzword of the 1990s?
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Alternative
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What is the French word that refers to a person or society that lacks purpose, identity or ethical values, thus leading t a feeling of rootlessness?
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Anomie
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What name is given to the generation that is post-boomers?
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Generation X
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What caused an overemphasis on the image of rock artists, at the expense of musical integrity?
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ability to see music - music videos
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Name the duo that was caught at the end of the 1980s for lipsinking their music, this after they won the 1989 Grammy for Best New Artist?
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Milli Vanilli
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T or F
On early Beatles recordings, Ringo Starr was replaced by a studio drummer. |
True
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What establishment continues to dominate the music world due to its influence?
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MTV
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What did the tv networks do in order to compete with MTV?
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Started reality shows about making bands, or battle of the bands
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How has the movie industry helped the music industry?
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Movie sound tracks containing music, sometimes original recordings by original artists
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Cite the earliest example of a segment of a film that was included solely for the purpose of marketing a hit song?
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, song, "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
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What is the term given to background music in a film that was assumed to be audible to all characters in the film?
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diegetic - or source music
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What is the term used to describe music in a film that is background music and that is presumed not to be heard by the characters in the motion picture, but serves to enhance the psychological drama for the audience?
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Nondiegetic
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What has been the practice recently regarding the use of nondiegetic music?
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Use of preexisting hit singles into the soundtrack
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Cite movies that used music from the past in order to authenticate the era in which the film is set:
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American Graffiti
Wayne's Word Dazed and Confused The Big Chill Stand By Me |
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Name 2 movies that chronicled the fictional development of musical groups?
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The Commitments
That Thing You Do |
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What is the difference between mainstream vs. alternative?
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Mainstream rock approaches the industry based on turning profit
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What was the most significant technological innovation impacting the commercial music industry during the 1990s?
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File-sharing capabilities via the Internet
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In 2001, what did Spin magazine declare as the #1 album of the year?
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An individual's hard drive
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What word describes the recording industry's response to changes in technology?
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Protectionism
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What band used the Internet early to effective market their recording and hawk band merchandise?
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Phish
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What singer in 1999 made available his entire new album on the Internet several weeks before its official release date, including additional tracks available only online?
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David Bowie
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What music artist wrote an open letter addressed to her fellow recording artists outlining 3 basic facts that all recording artists should know, addressing the inequities inherent in the recording industry concerning the relationship between artists and the corporations that market and distribute their work
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Courtney Love
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Describe the controversial amendment to the 1976 Copyright Act that was recently passed?
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It allows the record companies to treat musicians' recordings as "works for hire", giving the record company the right to control distribution indefinitely rather than for the limited period of time currently granted record label to market, distribute, and profit from the creative activity
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Name bands and artists that maintained a musical presence at the beginning of the 21st century?
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Rolling Stones
Aerosmith Don Henley Eric Clapton Sting Elton John Bruce Springsteen Paul McCartney Bill Joel Rod Stewart |
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What singer turned to composing film soundracks for animated features such as The Lion King and The Road to El Dorado?
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Elton John
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Name the broadway musical Elton John joined Tim Rice in writing the music to?
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Aida
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What recording artist recorded an acoustic version of an earlier recording?
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Eric Clapton with Layla
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What is the most changed musical aspect of Clapton's later recordings?
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His rhythm
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Who recorded the best-selling traditional blues recording in history?
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Eric Clapton, From the Cradle in 1994
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Who founded the Crossroads Centre, a facility for drug and alcohol rehabilitation located on the southeast shore of Antigua in the Caribbean?
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Eric Clapton
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What drives pop dance music?
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Marketing and promotional machines of major record companies
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Name the group that followed in the footsteps of New Kids on the Block?
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Backstreet Boys
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Name another boy band that also formed in Florida with all members coming to the group with previous entertainment experience?
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N'Sync
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What group was Justin Timberlake in?
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N'Sync
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Which boy band was more successful, Backstreet Boys or N'Sync?
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N'Sync
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Name the year that female solo artists out-charted their male counterparts on the Top 20 charts?
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1996
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Where did Britney Spears get her first start?
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Professional Performing ARts School in New York, then onto the New Mickey Mouse Club
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Name the 4 artists that had their starts on the New Mickey Mouse Club?
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1. Britney Spears
2. Justin Timberlake 3. JC Chavez 4. Christina Aguilera |
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Where did Britney Spears record her first album?
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Stockholm
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T or F
Britney Spears was named Best New ARtist Grammy. |
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Christina Aguilera was named Best New Artist Grammy |
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Name Spears' first album?
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Baby One More Time
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Name the top British girl group of the 90s?
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Spice Girls
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How did the Spice Girls form?
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4 answered ad that said, "Wanted: Streeetwise, outgoing, ambitious, and dedicated girls to play in a band"
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HOw were the Spice Girls given their nicknames?
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Contributors to Top of the Pops
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Name the 5 Spice Girls' nicknames:
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1. Ginger Spice
2. Posh Spice 3. Scary Spice 4. Sporty Spice 5. Baby Spice |
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Name the Spice Girl who is married to David Beckman:
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Victoria Beckman
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Name the first #1 Spice Girls hit:
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Wannabe
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T or F
The Spice Girls recently reunited for the Victoria Secret Fashion show which aired this past week. |
True
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What 90s girl group is often compared to the Supremes?
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Destiny's Child
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Name the lead vocalist of Destiny's Child:
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Beyonce Knowles
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T or F
Destiny's Child, under the name Da Dolls, lost on Star Search. |
True
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T or F
2 of the original Destiny's Child were replaced unknowingly until they saw their replacements on a music video. |
True
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Who managed Destiny's Child that won them a record contract.
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Beyonce Knowles' dad, Matthew Knowles
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How many singers were originally in Destiny's Child?
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4 but then one was let go for missing performance.
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Name 3 pop divas of the 90s:
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1. Mariah Carey
2. Celine Dion 3. Shania Twain |
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Describe Mariah Carey's influences
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R & B and gospel
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Name the Sony exec who listened to a tape of Mariah Carey after leaving a party only to return in order to meet her.
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Tommy Mottola
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What sets Mariah Carey apart from her contemporaries?
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Who vocal range and willingness to use it.
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T or f
Female vocalist exhibit a falsetto voice in the same manner as male vocalists. |
FALSE
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How do female vocalists produce extremely high pitches?
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The singer creates a whistle by pushing air between the vocal chords.
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What is the term given to the sound a female singer produces when she creates a whistle by pushing air between the vocal chords?
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A "whistle tone"
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Name a song that Carey produces a whistle tone on:
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Vision of Love
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Name the artist who made history with initial 5 singles going to #1, with actually 8 of their first 10 singles going #1?
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Mariah Carey
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Who did Mariah Carey marry during the early 90s?
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Tommy Mottola
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What influence is heard in Carey's Butterfly album?
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hip-hop, she collaborated with rap artists
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Name the year that Rolling Stone referred to as "the kind of year the music business would just as soon forget.. the most dramatic year of decline since the disco boom went bust in the 70s?
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2001-2002
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Name the singer who grew up poor in a working class neighborhood in Ontario?
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Shania Twain
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What happened to Shania Twain's parents shortly after she arrived in Nashville?
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They were killed in an auro accident
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What did Shania do after her parent died?
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She put her music career on hold, went home to raise her younger teenage siblings
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What is Shania Twain's real name?
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Eileen Twian
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Where did the name Shania come from?
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Her stepfather, which in Ojibwa means, "I'm On My Way"
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Name Shania Twain's first album?
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Shania
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Name the former producer for Foreigner and Def Leppard who collaborated on Shania Twain's 2nd album, that she eventually married:
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John "Mutt" Lange
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T or F
Twain and Lange married after her second album was in the can. |
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They married before the album was complete |
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Name the album that became the best selling album in country music history?
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The Woman in Me
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Where did hip-hop originate?
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The Bronx, New York
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Describe features of the cultural expression of hip-hop
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1. break dancing
2. graffiti art 3. freedom writing 4. double-Dutch jump-roping, 5. music |
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Who inspired the beginning of hip-hop?
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Jamaican DJs U-Roy and Lee Perry
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Name some early hip-hop pioneers:
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1. Kool Herc
2. Grandmaster Flash 3. number 55 4. AFrika Bambaataa 5. Kurtis Blow 6. Fatback Band 7. Sugar Hill Gang |
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Who are MCs?
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Masters of Ceremony
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What do MCs do?
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speak over the foundation of rhythmic grooves, sometimes covering up the silence with hand claps or to provide improvised prosodic displays as the DJ changed records one or more turntables
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Who primarily created hip=hop?
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DJs
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What source did hip-hop artists use as musical resources?
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Percussion and rhthythm tracks from recordings by James Brown, Rufus Thomas and other funk artists
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T or F
The identity of the MC was significantly revealed usually at the beginning with an announcement. |
True
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What is the term for the technique of quickly pushing and pulling records on the turntable, resulting in a vareity of effects?
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Scratching
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What is the term for the technique of scratching that resuluts in short repeated sections?
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Looping
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Name the 3 techniques of scratching?
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1. looping
2. musical bursts 3. backward playback |
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What is the term given when 2 turntables played back multiple records simultaneously while appropriately adjusting the speed of each recording so that the resulting complex rhythmic pattern would remain synchronized for lengthy periods of time
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Beat mixing
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What became the primary workstation for creating complex accompaniment tracks over which MCs would rap?
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Computers
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What is required for a computer to capture music?
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an intermediate step of translating the changing air pressure variation emanating from musical sound sources into numbers, the form win which the computer is able to easily store and manipulate the resulting sound files
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What are the criticisms about rap lyrics?
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1. graphic depiction of violence
2. degrading objectification of women 3. sexually explicit lyrics |
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Name one of the most influential politically oriented hip-hop acts of the 1980s was:
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Public Enem y
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Name the dual rappers of Public Enemy:
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1. Chuck D
2. Flavor Flav |
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What is rap + violence =
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Gangsta rap
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What became the dominant subgenre of rap?
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Gangsta rap
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Name gangsta rappers of the 90s?
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1. Ice Cube
2. Snoop Doggy Dogg 3. Ice-T 4. Dr. Dre 5. Cypress HIll 6. Scarface |
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Name the song, that via pressure fom police association alon with political and social groups caused Time Warner to remove from a debut album by Body Count?
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Cop Killer
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What does NWA stand for?
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Niggaz With Attitutde
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Name the 2 rap groups who serve as examples of current rap music?
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1. NWA
2. The Wu-Tang Clan |
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T or F
Eminem tones down the angst and subject matter in his lyrics. |
FALSE!!!!!
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Name 2 people who have been "torn down" in Eminem's lyrics?
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1. His mother
2. His estranged wife |
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What is Eminem's real name?
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Marshall Mathers
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Name the fictional alter ego used by Eminem who has been described as "a homicidal comedian through whom mathers enacted his most outrageous and perverse revente fantasies?
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Slim Shady
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Name one of the first rap groups to cross over successfully to the pop chars?
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Salt-n-Pepa
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T or F
Salt-n-Pepa's trio of members were 3 guys. |
FALSE,
Salt-n-Pepa's originaltrio consisted of 3 female members: 1. Cheryl James 2. Sandy Denton 3. Pamela Greene |
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Name the members of Salt-n-Pepa?
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Salt
Pepa MC |
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Name 2 forceful female rappers?
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1. Queen Latifah
2. Sistah Souljah |
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What is the other name for "New Jack Swing"?
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Neo-Soul
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Name one of the first artists to popularize the New Jack Swing?
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Keith Sweat
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Name the first rap album to reach #1?
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Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill
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Name the most commercially successful white rapper?
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Vanilla Ice with "To the Extreme"
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Who was the biggest crossover rap artist to date?
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MC Hammer with "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em"
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Describe the term for dance music that blended the incessant beat of disco with the high energy and "devil may care" attitude of punk?
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Techno
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What city originated techno?
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Detroit
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What is the term given to the type of dance music that was considered a style out of which most dance music since the mid-80s has developemd,, with a repetitive drum machine rhythm track in quadruple meter on every beat?
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House dance music
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Name the DJ who shedd his anonymity and began to incorporate a variety of styles inot his albums?
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Moby
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What country leads the way in the production of electronic dance music?
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America
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Name latin artists who worked their music into the fabric of the American mainstream?
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1. Ricky Martin
2. Selena 3. Jennifer Lopez 4. Christina Aguilera 5. Enrique Iglesias 6. Mark Anthony |
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Name the Latin artist whose album, Supernatural, held #1 for 12 weeks, and won 9 Grammys, selling over 21 million copies worldwide?
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Carlos Santana
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What was the term given to the popularization of Latin music as a pop genre?
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Latin invasion
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Name the Latin female singer whose heritage is Cuban?
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Gloria Estefan
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Name the group formed by Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefam?
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Miami Sound Machine
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T or F
The musicians who played on the Miami Sound Machine' recording were different from the musicians who toured as the band. |
True
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What was the nickname given to the recording musicians in the Miami Sound Machine?
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The Three Jerks:
Joe Galdo Rafael Vigl Lawrence Dermer, who composed and recorded most of the songs. |
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Who managed the Miami Sound Machine?
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Emilio Estefan
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What happened to interrupt the Miami Sound Machine's successes in 1990?
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The tour bus was hit by a truck while traveling along an icy stretch of highway in Pennsylvania Estefan suffered a broken vertebrae requiring surgical repair
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Name the official year identified of the Latin Invasion?
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1999.
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Name the first artist to sign to EMI's Latin label?
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Selena
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T or F
Selena was fluent in Spanish. |
FALSE
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What happened to Selena?
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She was shot and killed by the former pres. of her fan club who was caught embezzling money from Selena's clothing stores
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What is Ricky Martin's real name?
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Enrique Martin Morales
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Name the Puerto Rican band that Ricky Martin joined when he was 12 yo?
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Menudo
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What was Ricky Martin's initial success in the US?
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As an actor on General Hospital
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Name Ricky Martin's worldwide hit in over 30 countries but not in the US that was used as the anthem of the 1998 World Cup Competition
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La Copa de la Vida (The Cup of Life)
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Name Ricky Martin's #1 megahit, which became one of the best-seling singles since the beginning of Billboard's Hot 100?
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Livin' La Vida Loca
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Name the C & W artist who initially led the pack of young country singers in the early 1990s?
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Clint Black
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Who became the the top-selling solo artist in history?
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Garth Brooks
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Name the artist and the album that was the first album in history to debut at the #1 position on both the Pop and country album charts?
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Garth Brooks, Ropin' the Wind
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Who is Chris Gaines?
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Garth Brooks as a fictional Australian rock star alter ego. Brooks recorded an album
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T or F
The fusion of country-folk and rock has waned. |
True
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Name the artist who earned an oscar for Best Original Song and whose career has spanned since the 1950's
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Bob Dylan
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What is Jewel's real name?
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Jewel ilcher
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Name the all female concert tour organized Sarah McLachlan?
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Lillith Fair
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Name the band that during the 80s and 90s integrated the sounds of country, folk, bluegrass, rock and even jazz into an eclectic and highly energized musical performance?
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Phish
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What is the term that suggests a freedom in the style of perfromance, as opposed to the highly rehearsed sound of most commercial recordings, allowing for extended section of imporvisation?
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Jam
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What is the purpose of Phish?
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To play music
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Name one of the first bands to use the Internet as ameans of info dissemination, maintaining contact with their fans?
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Phish
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How many #1 hits did the Dead have?
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1
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What are the essentials of alternative rock?
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1.keep the music simple
2. limit the number and length of instrumental solos 3. play with an attitude |
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Name the 3 main trends in alternative rock:
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1. postpunk hardcore music
2. thrash metal 3. grunge |
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Name the record label that provided a means for band to record and distribute their music without the support of a major recording co.?
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SST record label
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Name 2 premier hardcore bands of the 80s?
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1. X
2. Black Flag |
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Name the music movement that served as a bridge between punk music of the 70s? and the alternative movement of the late 80s?
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postpunk hardcore music
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Name the first band to record a full-fledged thrash metal music?
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Metallica
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Name the derivative music style of thrash metal that combined the tempo, volume and heavy metal distortion of speed metal with graphic images of death and destruction?
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Death Metal
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Name death metal bands:
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1. Carcass
2. Cadaver 3. Napalm 4. Death 5. Slayer |
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From city did Grunge music emerge?
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Seattle
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Name the regional record label from Seattle who attracted alternative music?
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Sub Pop Records
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Name Sup Pop Records biggest selling group during its early years?
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Mudhoney
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Name the band that originated as Mother Love Bone?
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Pearl Jam
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What is the purpose of grunge?
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the artists revel turning intense hatred inward in a form of self-loathing
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What band is credited with bringing the sound of Seattle grunge to the mainstream rock audience?
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Nirvana
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Who was Nirvana's lead vocalist?
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Kurt Cobain
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What was the name of Nirvana's commercial success that reached #1 in 1991?
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Nevermind
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What music was accepted by many white, middle-class post boomers as the music of their generation?
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alternative music
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What happened to Cobain's happiness as Nirvana's successes increased?
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It went down
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What happened to Kurt Cobain?
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Committed suicide
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Who was the band, Mookie Blaylock?
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a basketball star and the name of the band that eventually became Pearl Jam
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Which had more record sales, Nirvana or Pearl Jam?
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Pearl Jam
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Name the tour that helped to popularize alternative music?
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Lollapalooza tour
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T or F
In fall of 2000 Pearl Jam released 25 live double albums. |
True
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Name Courtney Love's band?
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Hole
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What is the name for the genre that combines heavy metal and rap?
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Nu Metal
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Who were often the target of lyrics in Nu Metal music?
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Women and homophobia
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Name 2 leading bands of Nu Metal music?
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1. Rage AGainst the Machine
2. Korn |
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Name the Nu Metal group that rose to superstardom and performed at Woodstock 99?
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Limp Bizkit
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What is the other name for Nu Metal?
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Rap Metal
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Name the band that best exemplifies the neo-punk revival of the early 1990s?
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Green Day
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Name the neo-punk band that augmented their early performances with the addition of wet T-shirt contests?
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Blink-182
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What is the term used in the 90s that referred to music that, in some manner, placed itself in opposition to the mainstream in musical, sound, fashion, and/or image?
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Indie Rock
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What is Beck's full name?
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Beck Hansen
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Where was Radiohead originally formed?
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By classmates at Boarding school
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Name 2 british bands that emerged that were influenced by Radiohead?
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1. Travis
2. Coldplay |
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What was the name of Radiohead's album that shot up to #1 despite bootlegged copies showing up in the market 3 weeks before its release?
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Kid A
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Who is Bjork?
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Bjork Gudmundslottir
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Describe Bjork's style?
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flowing vocal melodies over a primarily electronic foundation
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What artist completed the transformation of country into a subgenre of rock music?
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Travis Tritt
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