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A #music history #rock quiz focusing on Motown and acid/psychedelia rock music
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"The Golden Road" by the Grateful Dead is an example of what musical style
Psychedelic rock
Rockabilly
Folk-rock
Motown
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Style that emerged w/brilliant colors, hallucinogenic images; came from hippies, linked w/LSD
Rockabilly
Folk-rock
Psychedelic Rock
Motown
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"My Girl" by the Temptations was a ballad that emphasized the lead singer & another key part is
Vibrant rhythm section
Choreography
"sophisticated" style
Instrumental solos
4
Gordy ordered a "poppier" version of this song to be recorded; became a #1 R&B hit, #2 pop hit
"My Girl"
"Shop Around"
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"
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He was a 1960s cartoonist who created Mr. Natural, a hippie icon
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Jerry Garcia
Robert Crumb
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Band who showed darker side of psychedelic rock; poetics of existential angst; sex &death focus
Jefferson Airplane
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
The Grateful Dead
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"You Can't Hurry Love" sung by The Supremes shows the sweet soul idiom & the delicate voice of
Gladys Knight
Diana Ross
Maxine Powell
Martha Reeve
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"Venus in Furs" sung by The Velvet Underground could be described as
Having a fast, upbeat tempo
Being lighthearted & "sunny"
Exploring pitch drones & strange tunings
Having a gospel influenced vocal style
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Acid rock group that started at the famous acid tests; exemplified the communal idea
The Grateful Dead
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
Jefferson Airplane
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Smart American entrepreneur who created Motown; crossed musical color lines
Marvin Gaye
Smokey Robinson
Berry Gordy
Brian Holland
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Lead singer of Jefferson Airplane; had a blues and gospel influenced style
Jim Morrison
Lou Reed
Grace Slick
Jerry Garcia
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American record company; specialized in R&B, black soul music; associated combo of music styles
Chess
Motown
Sun
Acid rock
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3 day musical commune; symbolized what was right and good" about the hippie movement
Woodstock
Newport
Black Panthers
Haight-Ashbury
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Where did the first psychedelic bands come from?
New York City
San Francisco
England
Detroit
15
1960s counterculture largely influenced by this group of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs & Cassady
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
The hippies
The Beat writers
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Motown's best selling male vocalist; his music shows the development of black American music
Stevie Wonder
Berry Gordy
Marvin Gaye
Smokey Robinson
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The Motown record company was originally called
Sun records
Tamla records
RCA
Chess records
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What were aspects of psychedelic (acid) rock
Surrealist lyrics
Loud volumes
All of the above
Lavish light shows
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"Motor town" where Motown record company was founded by Berry Gordy in 1959
Detroit
Nashville
Memphis
New York City
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Berry Gordy began as a
Songwriter
Producer
Singer
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The people most visibly and drastically rejecting the bourgeois lifestyle promoted in the 1950s
The Hippies
Antiwar protesters
The Beats
Civil Rights activists
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Rock and blues singer; sense of almost giving up vocal control; sang "Piece of My Heart"
Janis Joplin
Diana Ross
John Cale
Grace Slick
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Used a business/production model of a musical "assembly line" for Motown records
Lamont Dozier
Berry Gordy
Brian Holland
Phil Spector
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What songwriting group wrote the famous Motown hit 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine"?
Whitfield-Strong
Ashford and Simpson
Holland-Dozier-Holland
Robinson-White
25
This song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles became Motown's 1st million selling record
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered"
"Shop Around"
"My Girl"
"You Can't Hurry Love"
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"How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" sung by Marvin Gaye
All of the answers are correct!
Was written by Holland-Dozier-Holland
Was less blues oriented
Showed a more sophisticated style
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Had political unrest (Civil rights, war, assassinations), sexual liberation, hippies & drug use
1960s main culture
1960s counterculture
1960s subculture
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Motown records was modeled on whose "wall of sound"?
Phil Spector
Sam Phillips
Berry Gordy
George Martin
29
"Heat Wave" was a hit Motown song written by who?
Smokey Robinson
Ashford-Simpson
Whitfield-Strong
Holland-Dozier-Holland
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Songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote hits for this group; showed sweet soul idiom
The Temptations
The Supremes
The Marvelettes
The Miracles
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First signed to Motown as a prodigy; experimented w/synthesizer; themes about racial problems
Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
Eddie Kendricks
Smokey Robinson
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Song by Jefferson Airplane about loyalty and monoagamy
"The Golden Road"
"Light My Fire"
"Venus in Furs"
"Somebody to Love"
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"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" by the Doors contains
Bossa Nova Brazilian drum groove
Strange tuning & pitch drones
Weird percussion effects
Slow, plodding, emphatic beat
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NY band who presented darker side to 60s hedonism; songs on drugs, sublimation & sadomasochism
Jefferson Airplane
The Doors
The Velvet Underground
The Grateful Dead
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"Signed, Sealed, Delivered," a hit on the US R&B and pop charts, was written by who?
Stevie Wonder himself
Smokey Robinson
Whitfield-Strong
Holland-Dozier-Holland
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Who ran the Motown "finishing school" where artists were taught class, poise and etiquette?
Berry Gordy
Brian Holland
Valerie Simpson
Maxine Powell
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1st nationally successful band from San Francisco psychedelic scene; defined acid rock style
Jefferson Airplane
The Grateful Dead
The Velvet Underground
The Doors
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A publication from that Beat era by Allen Ginsberg; "Beat Manifesto"; poetry; obscene elements
Revolver
The Psychedelic Experience
Surrealist Pillow
Howl
