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A #music history #rock quiz focusing on Motown and acid/psychedelia rock music
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The people most visibly and drastically rejecting the bourgeois lifestyle promoted in the 1950s
The Beats
The Hippies
Civil Rights activists
Antiwar protesters
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Song by Jefferson Airplane about loyalty and monoagamy
"Venus in Furs"
"Light My Fire"
"The Golden Road"
"Somebody to Love"
3
NY band who presented darker side to 60s hedonism; songs on drugs, sublimation & sadomasochism
The Grateful Dead
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
4
"Venus in Furs" sung by The Velvet Underground could be described as
Having a gospel influenced vocal style
Exploring pitch drones & strange tunings
Being lighthearted & "sunny"
Having a fast, upbeat tempo
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"Heat Wave" was a hit Motown song written by who?
Whitfield-Strong
Smokey Robinson
Ashford-Simpson
Holland-Dozier-Holland
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"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" by the Doors contains
Slow, plodding, emphatic beat
Strange tuning & pitch drones
Weird percussion effects
Bossa Nova Brazilian drum groove
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Lead singer of Jefferson Airplane; had a blues and gospel influenced style
Lou Reed
Jerry Garcia
Grace Slick
Jim Morrison
8
This song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles became Motown's 1st million selling record
"My Girl"
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
"You Can't Hurry Love"
"Shop Around"
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Smart American entrepreneur who created Motown; crossed musical color lines
Berry Gordy
Smokey Robinson
Marvin Gaye
Brian Holland
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Band who showed darker side of psychedelic rock; poetics of existential angst; sex &death focus
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
The Grateful Dead
The Velvet Underground
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3 day musical commune; symbolized what was right and good" about the hippie movement
Haight-Ashbury
Woodstock
Black Panthers
Newport
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Gordy ordered a "poppier" version of this song to be recorded; became a #1 R&B hit, #2 pop hit
"Shop Around"
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"
"My Girl"
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
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Motown records was modeled on whose "wall of sound"?
Phil Spector
George Martin
Sam Phillips
Berry Gordy
14
Berry Gordy began as a
Singer
Producer
Songwriter
15
American record company; specialized in R&B, black soul music; associated combo of music styles
Motown
Sun
Acid rock
Chess
16
Who ran the Motown "finishing school" where artists were taught class, poise and etiquette?
Brian Holland
Berry Gordy
Valerie Simpson
Maxine Powell
17
Acid rock group that started at the famous acid tests; exemplified the communal idea
The Grateful Dead
The Velvet Underground
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
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Songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote hits for this group; showed sweet soul idiom
The Marvelettes
The Temptations
The Miracles
The Supremes
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Had political unrest (Civil rights, war, assassinations), sexual liberation, hippies & drug use
1960s main culture
1960s subculture
1960s counterculture
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Style that emerged w/brilliant colors, hallucinogenic images; came from hippies, linked w/LSD
Rockabilly
Motown
Psychedelic Rock
Folk-rock
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First signed to Motown as a prodigy; experimented w/synthesizer; themes about racial problems
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Eddie Kendricks
Marvin Gaye
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Used a business/production model of a musical "assembly line" for Motown records
Phil Spector
Berry Gordy
Lamont Dozier
Brian Holland
23
"The Golden Road" by the Grateful Dead is an example of what musical style
Folk-rock
Rockabilly
Motown
Psychedelic rock
24
Motown's best selling male vocalist; his music shows the development of black American music
Berry Gordy
Stevie Wonder
Marvin Gaye
Smokey Robinson
25
Rock and blues singer; sense of almost giving up vocal control; sang "Piece of My Heart"
Grace Slick
Diana Ross
John Cale
Janis Joplin
26
Where did the first psychedelic bands come from?
San Francisco
England
Detroit
New York City
27
"How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" sung by Marvin Gaye
Showed a more sophisticated style
Was less blues oriented
Was written by Holland-Dozier-Holland
All of the answers are correct!
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"My Girl" by the Temptations was a ballad that emphasized the lead singer & another key part is
Choreography
Instrumental solos
"sophisticated" style
Vibrant rhythm section
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"You Can't Hurry Love" sung by The Supremes shows the sweet soul idiom & the delicate voice of
Maxine Powell
Gladys Knight
Martha Reeve
Diana Ross
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"Signed, Sealed, Delivered," a hit on the US R&B and pop charts, was written by who?
Whitfield-Strong
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Stevie Wonder himself
Smokey Robinson
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1st nationally successful band from San Francisco psychedelic scene; defined acid rock style
The Velvet Underground
Jefferson Airplane
The Grateful Dead
The Doors
32
He was a 1960s cartoonist who created Mr. Natural, a hippie icon
Jerry Garcia
Robert Crumb
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
33
What were aspects of psychedelic (acid) rock
Lavish light shows
Loud volumes
All of the above
Surrealist lyrics
34
1960s counterculture largely influenced by this group of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs & Cassady
The Beat writers
The hippies
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
35
What songwriting group wrote the famous Motown hit 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine"?
Ashford and Simpson
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Whitfield-Strong
Robinson-White
36
The Motown record company was originally called
RCA
Tamla records
Chess records
Sun records
37
A publication from that Beat era by Allen Ginsberg; "Beat Manifesto"; poetry; obscene elements
The Psychedelic Experience
Revolver
Howl
Surrealist Pillow
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"Motor town" where Motown record company was founded by Berry Gordy in 1959
Nashville
New York City
Memphis
Detroit
