Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

Unlike Edison's phonograph, Emile Berliner's gramophone played flat disks.

Which of the following are ways the music industry tries to fight the illegal downloading of music?

A key factor in the success of the MP3 format is its ability to send or receive music without having to compress sound.

Which of the following is not an example of the Web sites that are increasingly popular places for fans to sample and discover new music?

Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Died in plane crash

Universal Music Group controls nearly 20 percent of the U.S. market share of the recording industry.

One advantage of polyvinyl records over shellac records is that they were less likely to break.

Gangsta rap developed in the 1980s partly to tell the truth about gang violence in American culture.

Which of the following large corporations is not one of the major firms controlling national and international music distribution today?

In the 1920s, many radio stations went off the air because they couldn't afford to pay for the rights to broadcast recorded music.

The popularity of the jukebox caused record sales to drop sharply in the 1930s.

The turning point that led to the end of major record labels employing white performers to cover black rock-and-roll artists' songs occurred with which event?

In the late 1950s, singers Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis stopped performing rock and roll because they believed it was the ''devil's music.''

Until the invention of digital recording, records were made using an analog recording process.

Oligopoly is the term for a situation in which a few firms control most of an industry; film studios and record labels are examples.

A major difference between sound recordings made by Emile Berliner and those made by Thomas Edison was that .

Which of the following statements about hip-hop music is true?

White supremacist groups did not consider rock and roll a threat to white culture because white artists like Elvis Presley played it.

Thomas Edison initially expected his new phonograph to be used as a kind of telephone answering machine.

Cleveland deejay Alan Freed helped popularize black music with white audiences.