America's Music: Part 5

Question 1

By the 1990s, the cyclic pattern of rock history - rebellion, commodification, and reformation - was beginning to slow.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Creoles adapted Cajun music to their own culture by bringing in African and Caribbean influences, resulting in zydeco.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

The technical processes used in the creation of hip-hop raised legal questions about _____ and ownership.

Accepted Answer

copyright

Question 4

Amateur music making is a thing of popular music's past.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

In a powwow, an ensemble of singers, called a ____, provides the music, seated around a large double-headed bass drum.

Accepted Answer

drum

Question 6

Perhaps the chief characteristic of musical postmodernism is its questioning of dividing lines between

Accepted Answer

all of these options.

Question 7

Perhaps no 20th-century condition did more to fragment the classical world than the gap between composer and performer.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Compressed audio files such as MP3s suffer in quality compared with older formats such as CDs and LPs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

______ marks the start of a larger historical trend toward the reuniting of popular and classical spheres.

Accepted Answer

Minimalism

Question 10

The short-lived 1940s phenomenon of the "soundies" most significantly anticipated

Accepted Answer

MTV.

Question 11

The one piece of technology perhaps the most responsible for the signature sound of early 21st-century popular music is

Accepted Answer

the MP3.

Question 12

Perhaps the most influential opera composer living today is Philip Glass.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

"Believe," by the artist ____, became the first hit song to use Auto-Tune as a special effect.

Accepted Answer

Cher

Question 14

The music derived from the _____ Plains Indian style features especially tense, nasal singing in the upper register.

Accepted Answer

Northern

Question 15

Gangsta rap earned greater notoriety with Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

Ever since hip-hop's inception in the 1970s, prerecorded music has been an important element in its sound.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Since the 1990s, a highly polished mainstream music, aimed at ___, has shared the media with an array of outsider music.

Accepted Answer

teens and preteens

Question 18

By the mid-1980s, MTV took its place alongside radio as an effective way to launch a hit record.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Late 20th-century jazz saw both a proliferation of styles and a shift in the music's cultural position.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Before WWII, the Broadway stage had been the least important venue for the launching of popular songs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

"Turntablism" refers to

Accepted Answer

beatmatching.

Question 22

A Broadway show built around preexisting songs, often by a single songwriter or musical group, is known as

Accepted Answer

a jukebox musical.

Question 23

The authors of the textbook have from the start used the conceptual model of ____ spheres of musical activity.

Accepted Answer

three

Question 24

Jazz at Lincoln Center's director since its inception has been

Accepted Answer

Wynton Marsalis.

Question 25

Klezmer music was a secular music first associated particularly with wedding celebrations.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

One of the most widely performed composers active today is

Accepted Answer

Jennifer Higdon.

Question 27

The cassette tape breathed new life into the record industry in the early 1980s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

Between 1975 and 2015, the number of pop songs credited to a solo writer has fallen precipitously.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

Which film does film composer Danny Elfman cite as a particularly strong childhood influence?

Accepted Answer

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Question 30

Between 1880 and 1920, the two largest immigrant groups to the US were Irish and Eastern European Jews.

Accepted Answer

False

America's Music: Part 5

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America's Music: Part 5

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