Pop Music Exam Review

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

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

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

This is a Jamaican genre associated with the Rastafarian religion.

What virtuoso banjo player performed with Lester Flatt?

Who was the father of bluegrass?

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

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

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

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

Who recorded "Material Girl"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who recorded "Rock Around the Clock"?

Who recorded "Born in the USA"?

Who recorded "Take It Easy"?

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

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

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

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

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

Who recorded "I Get Around"?

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

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

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

Who recorded "Johnny B. Goode"?

Who recorded "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"?

Who recorded "Thriller"?

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

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

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

Who recorded "Folsom Prison Blues"?

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

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

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

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

What new wave band recorded "Psycho Killer"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who recorded "Eleanor Rigby"?

Who recorded "Unforgettable"?

Who recorded "Lovesick Blues"?

Who recorded "Subterranean Homesick Blues"?

Who recorded "Jailhouse Rock"?

What term refers to the speed of the beat?

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

Who recorded "Shining Star"?

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

A 19th-century song performed for home entertainment.

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

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

Who recorded "You Do Something to Me"?

What black pianist was responsible for popularizing ragtime?

Who recorded "Friends in Low Places"?

What is another name for the chorus of a song?

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

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

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

Who recorded "9 to 5"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who recorded "Purple Rain"?

Who was the lead singer of the Supremes?

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

Who was the first singing cowboy?

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

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