Pop Music Exam Review

The most popular song form from 1890-1909. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is one.

Upbeat blues style played on the piano that features an active left-hand pattern.

What is the gospel technique Ray Charles used in "What'd I Say"?

What percussion instrument plays the foundational rhythm in Afro-Cuban music?

Who was the father of bluegrass?

What group led by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant was the forerunner of heavy metal bands?

What saxophonist was the dominant figure in the bebop movement?

Who was the top-selling Latin artist of the 1990s before being murdered at age 23?

What term refers to the speed of the beat?

Style that became popular in the 1890s; it mixed European harmony with African syncopation.

Who recorded "Purple Rain"?

Which term refers to a syncopated piano pattern in salsa music?

Who was the top pop artist of the 1970s and wore elevator shoes and big wild glasses?

The term for the main rhythm used by jump bands in songs like "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie."

Who recorded "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"?

This is a Latin genre that blends West Coast jazz with Brazilian rhythms.

This sensuous couple dance that developed in Argentina was similar to the Cuban habanera.

This is a Latin genre found in South Texas. It features the accordion and the bajo sexto.

What is the term for a short, rhythmically interesting melodic idea?

Who recorded "Eleanor Rigby"?

Which Broadway producer/director/performer wrote patriotic songs that are still popular today?

This is a style of country music that uses only acoustic string instruments.

A light, often humorous form of opera that came from England during the 1870s.

Who recorded "Lovesick Blues"?

What trumpeter and scat singer was the first great soloist in jazz?

What a song becomes if it retains its appeal long after its initial popularity.

What black pianist was responsible for popularizing ragtime?

What black gospel singer recorded "Move On Up a Little Higher?

Who recorded "Friends in Low Places"?

Most popular instrumental ensemble in the late 1800s. John Philip Sousa led one.

Who was the blind artist who recorded and mixed all the layers of a song?

Which Tin Pan Alley composer wrote "White Christmas" and "God Bless America"?

Who recorded "Folsom Prison Blues"?

What bebop trumpet player had big cheeks caused by improper playing?

A variety show that features a series of unrelated acts--singers, dancers, magicians, etc.

Who recorded "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"?

Who recorded "Johnny B. Goode"?

The distinctive tone quality that enables the listener to identify the source of a sound.

What do you call the recording of a song released AFTER the original?

Who recorded "9 to 5"?

Who recorded "Jailhouse Rock"?

The term for the distinctive rhythm Buddy Holly used in "Not Fade Away."

Who recorded a rock opera and was one of the first to use the ARP 2600?

What is another name for the chorus of a song?

Who was the leading composer of parlor songs and minstrel show songs?

This popular social dance of the 20s and 30s was introduced by "Castle House Rag" in 1914.

A high-spirited, often improvisatory stage show performed in blackface.

In "Maybellene," it included electric guitar, piano, string bass, drum set, and maracas.

Who was the lead singer of the Supremes?

A 19th-century song performed for home entertainment.

This was a style of country music named after the noisy bars where it originated.

Which jazz icon was known for his superbly crafted compositions, such as "Ko-ko"?

Which artist recorded "All of Me" and was one of the first song interpreters?

Who recorded "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"?

Who recorded "What's Love Got to Do With It"?

Who recorded "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"?

This is a Latin genre developed in the US in the 1960s by Cuban immigrants.

A rhythmic device in which accents occur BETWEEN the beats instead of ON them.

Who was the host of American Bandstand, a TV show that played popular music?

Who recorded "Rock Around the Clock"?

Who was the guitarist who defined the art of rock improvisation?

Who recorded "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"?

This energetic 20s dance, performed to a song of the same name, had a syncopated 2-note riff.

Who was the leader of the Texas Playboys and invented western swing?

Who had a traditional country vocal sound with guitar-only accompaniment?

What singer/guitarist performed electric blues songs like "Hoochie Coochie Man"?

This 1940s music was slower, more melodious, and less syncopated than swing.

Who recorded "Shining Star"?

Who recorded "Material Girl"?

Who was the first singing cowboy?

Who recorded "Unforgettable"?

The term for a percussive accent that occurs regularly on counts 2 and 4 of a 4-beat rhythm.

Who recorded "Take It Easy"?

Who recorded "Born in the USA"?

What virtuoso banjo player performed with Lester Flatt?

Who recorded "Subterranean Homesick Blues"?

Who was the glam rock artist who performed onstage as Ziggy Stardust?

What new wave band recorded "Psycho Killer"?

Who was the singer-songwriter whose Tapestry album sold 22 million copies?

The emphasis of a musical sound to set it apart from the surrounding sounds.

What clarinet-playing bandleader was known as the King of Swing?

Who recorded "You Do Something to Me"?

This was an intimate, pleasant singing style of the 1930s and 40s. Bing Crosby was a master.

Who directed the US Marine Band and was known as The March King?

Who recorded "I Get Around"?

Who was the lead singer of the Crickets and died in a plane crash?

This is a Jamaican genre associated with the Rastafarian religion.

Who recorded "R-E-S-P-E-C-T"?

This was a 1950s R&B genre that featured backup singers performing nonsense syllables.

Who recorded "Thriller"?