Popular Music In America Exam 3-Chp 7

Front 1

Which record format released in 1949 by RCA Victor Corporation allowed a listener to load a stack of singles?

Back 1

45 r.p.m. record

Front 2

Which of the following is true about FM radio?

Back 2

it offered better sound quality than AM radio.

Front 3

Which artist was the first black musician to host his own weekly radio series (1948–1949) and the first to have a network television show (1956–1957)?

Back 3

Nat “King” Cole.

Front 4

Which artist was the focus of the first documented example of modern pop hysteria, the so-called Columbus Day Riot of 1944?

Back 4

Frank Sinatra

Front 5

Which song, recorded by Nat “King” Cole and written by Eden Ahbez, is similar to a Yiddish folk song called “Shvayg mayn harts” and was originally part of a suite of songs called the

Back 5

“Nature Boy”.

Front 6

Which songwriting team composed the musicalOklahoma!, which opened in 1943?

Back 6

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Front 7

Who lead the urban folk group the Weavers?

Back 7

Pete Seeger

Front 8

Which pianist, organist, and bandleader recorded “Mambo No. 5” and did the most to popularize the mambo throughout Latin America and in the United States?

Back 8

Damaso Perez Prado

Front 9

Which of the following artists recorded “Chicago Electric Blues”?

Back 9

Muddy Waters

Front 10

Which honky-tonk artist recorded “The Wild Side of Life?”

Back 10

Hank Thompson

Front 11

Which “neotraditionalist” music genre pioneered by Bill Monroe began in the 1930s and reached back into the musical traditions of the American South?

Back 11

Bluegrass

Front 12

What term refers to the illegal payments made to DJs (usually by independent record companies) to put certain records in heavy rotation?

Back 12

Payola

Front 13

Which successful blues crooner of the late 1940s and early 1950s recorded influential songs like “Black Night” and semiclassical numbers such as the Warsaw Concerto?

Back 13

Charles Brown

Front 14

Which singer and saxophonist lead the jump band the Tympani Five?

Back 14

Louis Jordan

Front 15

Which big band singer recorded “Mambo Italiano?”

Back 15

Rosemary Clooney

Front 16

Billboard

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A company that tracks record sales and publishes results on “charts.”

Front 17

Bluegrass music

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“Neotraditionalist” music genre that began in the 1930s and reached back into the musical traditions of the American South, refurbishing old styles to fit new circumstances

Front 18

Blue notes

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A minor third, diminished fifth, or minor seventh played in a melodic context against major key harmonies used for expressive purposes and commonly used in jazz, blues, and some country music styles

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Country and western

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Music industry term first used in 1949 by Billboard to replace the older designation “hillbilly” music

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DJs

Back 20

Entertainers playing prerecorded music that is broadcast on the radio.

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Feedback

Back 21

A method of generating long, sustained notes that sounded like screaming or crying on the electric guitar.

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Magnetic tape recording

Back 22

Technology developed by the Germans and the Japanese during the 1930s that offered a number of advantages over the established means of recording music

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Melisma

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Stretching each syllable of a song out over as many melodic notes as possible

Front 24

Montuno

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The second half of a two-part form common to much Cuban dance music that formed the foundation of the mambo.

Front 25

Payola

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Illegal payments made to DJs (usually by independent record companies) to put certain records in heavy rotation

Front 26

Pop

Back 26

An abridged reference to “popular music” or the mainstream sensibilities influencing popular music

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R&B

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Music industry term that stands for “rhythm & blues.”

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Rhythm & blues

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Music industry term first used in 1949 by Billboard to replace the older designation “race” music.

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Rockabilly

Back 29

Country-tinged variety of rock ’n’ roll.

Front 30

Stoptime

Back 30

Musical technique in which the beat is suspended to focus attention on the singer’s voice.

Front 31

Tempo rubato

Back 31

The stretching of the tempo for expressive purposes

Front 32

Waltz

Back 32

Music and dance style popular in the nineteenth century that featured a lilting triple meter

Front 33

Three significant new R&B styles developed in the postwar era?

Back 33

Jump blues
Blues crooners
Urban blues
Vocal harmony groups

Front 34

Independent Labels

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1)CHESS RECORDS- blues "Race" label, founded by Phil Chess

2) ATLANTIC RECORDS- founded by Ahmet Ertegun, based in BYC, Ruth Brown, Big Joe Turner

Front 35

Bluegrass music

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A country music style that grew out of traditional fiddle bands and ballad traditions. Mandolinist Bill Monroe is generally credited with pioneering the style and establishing its standard instrumentation, including prominent featuring of the mandolin, 5-string banjo, guitar, fiddle, and bass

Front 36

Distortion

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A buzzing, crunchy, or "fuzzy" tone color originally achieved by overdriving the vacuum tubes of a guitar amplifier. This effect can be simulated today by solid state and digital sound processors. Often heard in hard roc or heavy metal context

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Honky-Tonk Music

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A popular style of country music that evolved in the late 1940s and early 1950s around small bars (called honky-tonks) catering to a working-class, white crowd. Hank Williams is considered among the greatest honky-tonk singers and songwriters

Front 38

Jump Blues

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An R&B style of the late 1940s/early 1950s featuring small combos performing upbeat, danceable songs, often with humorous lyrics. Saxophonist and singer Louis Jordan was a major proponent of the style.

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Magnetic Tape Recording

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Developed by Germans and Japanese. Tape was better to capture the full range of musical sounds directly onto "master" phonograph discs. Can cut up and stick music together, allowed experimentation of music. Allowed people to re-record

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Top 40 programming

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Attempt to control marketplace. Developed in the early 1950s by Todd Storz, a DJ in Omaha, Nebraska (creeped on teens to see what they spent money on)