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105 Cards in this Set
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What is Jazz?
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Performance and Improvisation
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How does Jazz differ from classical?
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Because of its emphasis on rhythm.
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What do Jazz musicians do simultaneously?
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compose and perform
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When did Jazz begin?
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About 1900
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Where did Jazz begin?
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New Oreleans
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Who created Jazz?
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Musically illiterate black americans
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What is art music?
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anything legit enought o be taught at schools
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Classical and Jazz are considered?
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art music
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When did Jazz become popular?
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1920-1940 between the wars
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Why did Jazz become popular?
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recording, invention of radio, sound in films
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In the 1920s there were two types of popular music?
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1)Music derived from European tradition
2)Music derived from African tradition |
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What are some examples of music derived from European tradition?
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classical, folk, vaudeville
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What are some examples of music derived from African tradition?
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Jazz and Blues
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Jazz and Blues can be said to be what?
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Mid 19th century african american spirituals
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WWI was?
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a war of devastation
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How many soldiers were killed in WWI?
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9 million
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In WWI there was new military technology such as?
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the tank, gun, gas
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The tank, gun and gas served as?
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more efficient ways to kill
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After WWI, _____became an escape and a positive outlike in their life.
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Music
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The US and Canada experienced what in the 1920s?
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a financial boom
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What happened during the "roaring twenties"?
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an artistic boom, experimentation in the arts
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In the 1920s Jazz was considered?
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popular music
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The stock market crashed when?
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1929
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The 1920s and 30s can be said to be?
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polar opposites
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In the 1930s Jazz went back to its?
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roots
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In the 1930s jazz was?
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well established
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In the 1920s and 30s, there were 2 types of american culture?
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1. black
2. white |
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Jazz pervaded _______ cultures.
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both
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Blues and Jazz decent to african tradiiton in what regards?
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rhythm
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Blues is a combo of what?
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rural slave songs and african folk tales
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Blues music is inspired by?
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disappointment, mistreatment
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Blues lyrics express?
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the feelings of words
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Blues preformers developed?
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slides and growls
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What are the 2 types of Blues?
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1) Classic
2) Delta |
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Who is the godfather of blues?
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WC Handy
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what is the standardized form for blues?
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12 bar
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Bessie Smith was a famous singer of what kind of music?
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classic blues
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Who primarily performed classic blues?
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african american women accompanied by a piano or small combo
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what is credited for blues sucess?
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recording and sheet music
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What are some traits of classic blues?
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Improv on simple formula, syncopation, repition of short patterns, bent notes, call and response idea
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Harmony comes from where?
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european tradition
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Where is delta blues from?
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Mississippi Delta Region
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Delta bues in rooted in _________tradition?
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oral
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What are some characteristics of delta blues?
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rough singing style, rich in timbre, rhytmically flexible, alternation between voice and guitar
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Who primarily plays delta blues?
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AA males who are playing with a guitar
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Blues as we know it today is centered around?
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Delta Blues
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Who primarily preformed Jazz?
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AA performers wtih brass instruments
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Jazz has _________rhythms
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syncopated
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In the 20's _____jazz was all the rage.
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Swing
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Jazz has a ________spirit towards _________musicians?
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mocking, classical
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What is the key to jazz?
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improvosation
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NO jazz was the leading style after________?
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WWI
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Characteristic of NO jazz?
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group variation, result melody in several melodic lines all played at same time
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NO jazz became popular because of what?
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music rivalry between creoles and AA's
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NO Jazz movement in the 20s produced many _______people
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famous
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Joe King Oliver
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Black hornetist; made jazz immensely popular with white people
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Louis Armstrong
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Trumpet/scat singer; world wide famous
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Jazz bands where divided how?
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into front line (melodic) rhtyhm secion
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scat singing is?
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all about the pitches not the words
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chorus is =
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repition of 12 bars
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Big Bands arrived when?
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in the 1920s
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What is the main purpose of jazz?
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to dance
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3 sections in big bands?
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bass, reeds, rhythms
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Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington and Count Bessie band
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all famous jazz musicans
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in 1930s a new style of musicians arrived?
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composer and arranger and band member
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2 types of jazz?
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bebop, swing
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bebop was created?
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1940s
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bebop extended into different types of music?
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cool jazz and hard bop
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Miles Davis played?
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bebop
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Miles Davis invented?
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cool jazz
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Cool jazz is different how?
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softer timbre, relaxed pace, rhytmically subtle
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cool jazz has an emphasis on who?
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arranger/composer
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Hard Bop is dominated by
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drummers
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Hard bop has ____tunes
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fast
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Kenny Clarke, Art blakely, max roach
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are all famous drummers
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miles davis pioneered what kind of jazz?
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modal and cool
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modal jazz is?
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based on slow unfolding melodies, same harmony for a long period of time, experimental music
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in the 1960s what style of jazz came about?
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avant guard (free style)
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who started avant guard?
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ornette colman
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Avant Guard differs how?
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it has an innovative sound and improvistation is key and unlimited
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who is the most famous avant guard?
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john coltrane
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1960s/70s jazz becomes classical music because?
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people where intrested in the beginnings and not making it anymore
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what are 2 types of art music?
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classical and jazz
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in 1950s jazz musicians gave way to R&B because they weren't interested in their ______
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audience
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r&b always had a________unlike jazz
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singer
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R&b characteristics?
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new songs on old formulas, amplified instruments, repititive basslines, emphasis on back beat
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What is a back beat?
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emphasis on 2X4 notes
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R&B became popular because?
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intensity, strong rhythm, sexual lyrics
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The term rock n roll is coined by?
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a cleveland dj
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rock n roll is?
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a combined beat of R&b and a country style guitar and lyrics pertaining to love sex
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1st rock band
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billy haley and the comet
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1st rockstar
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elvis presley
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during the 60s it just became known as rock, and became famous______
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all of the world
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Who was the first commercialized sex symbol/ musician
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Tina Turner
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In the 60s early rockstars had already ________of the charts
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fallen
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In 1964 _________emerged as the superstar rock group
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beatles
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the beatles are credited with
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track on track recording and advancing recording techniques
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Brittish American rock bands where influenced by?
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blues
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is considered an instrumental virtuso on the guitar?
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jimi hendrix
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Off shoots of beatles musical style is?
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california style, heavy metal, hard rock, acid rock, avant guard
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60s pop styles included?
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folk/protest music
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70s pop splintered into competing markets and trends according to how they relate to social groups?
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Disco and Punk Rock
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80s rock styles?
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New Wave, Alternative
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Splinters of rock are?
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rap, womens music, christian rock
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raps 2 types?
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ganster, conscience
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