Music History Review

True or False: Elvis was known for taking songs from African-American musicians.

True or False: 70s hip hop was influenced by classic pop and country rock.

Alternative rock in the 80s was influenced by what?

True or False: East coast hip hop featured original hip hop sounds and elements

Which of the following is NOT a social/political event from the 1980s?

Which genre of music is defined by the heavy use of drum machines and synthesizers?

This man is widely considered the most influential guitarist in modern rock history

Songs associated with a movement for social change are called what?

Who is the leading singer of Nirvana?

DJ Alan Freed was credited with coining what term in 1951?

True or False: American Bandstand played a more clean-cut version of rock and roll.

In what decade did the British Invasion occur?

Hip hop artists like NWA used their music to stand up against what?

What is common among disco, hip hop and punk of the 1970s?

True or False: Disco developed in Detroit in the 1960s?

The psychedelic movement was influenced by non-Western sources such as:

What music of the 1970s is based on feeling and not virtuosity, or talent.

Why was MTV so important to the music industry?