Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

TV host Ed Sullivan promoted the career of the Beatles, but he considered the Rolling Stones ''bad boys.''

Emile Berliner's invention of was significant because it allowed for mass reproduction of sound recordings and for labeling, which enabled the development of a star system.

Competition from TV in the 1950s helped the radio and recording industries become allies.

Which of the following musical genres was at one time banned?

In economic terms, the recording industry is best described as .

Independent labels produce only about 2 percent of all recordings.

Payola is the practice of record promoters paying deejays to play certain songs on the air.

Radio stations pay a licensing fee to broadcast copyrighted music.

Conservative social forces in the late 1950s pointed to Jerry Lee Lewis as an example of .

Music in the cloud eliminates the physical ownership of music.

Motown music groups had a more stylized, softer sound than the funk music of James Brown and Wilson Pickett.

Songwriters and publishers receive a mechanical royalty each time a recording of one of their copyrighted songs is sold.

Because they are smaller, independent record companies are reluctant to invest in commercially unproven artists.

Compact discs hit the market in the early 1980s, and by 2000 their sales were still lagging way behind the albums and cassette tapes most people were familiar with.

Audiotape was developed by the Japanese after World War II.

Which of the following statements is true about the attempts to rein in popular music?

Little Richard became the first African American artist to chart higher with his own song than a white cover artist because .

The music industry----especially major labels----ultimately embraced the MP3 format by supporting services like iTunes.

Senate hearings on the music industry in the 1980s led to _.

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