Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

The music industry has successfully hindered peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, which enable free music file-sharing.

Recording artists receive about one-third of the retail price of a CD in royalties.

Grunge music became a significant form of rock and roll in 1992 as a result of a breakthrough album by Nirvana.

Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Payola

The success of British groups in America in the 1960s led to .

Unsigned music artists can now build online communities of fans around their personal Web sites, drawing attention to their music.

Many musicians who receive advances from record companies don't earn enough from sales to pay them back.

Under the compromise reached by CBS and RCA in 1953, the standard for record singles became the format.

British rock-and-roll groups such as the Beatles drew much of their inspiration from black artists.

The word phonograph comes from the Latin words phone and graph, which put together mean ''recorded speaking.''

Which statement best describes the uneasiness between the commercial and artistic sides of the music business?

Which of the following boundaries did rock and roll not blur in the 1950s?

Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Crooner

Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Jailed

Folk is considered the sound of social activism.

Punk rock emerged in the 1970s partly to protest the commercialism of the recording industry.

An A&R (artist & repertoire) agent typically .

Which of the following is true about the MP3 music file format?

Which of the following statements about the music industry and the Internet since the year 2000 is true?

In the 1950s, it was common practice for white artists to cover songs first recorded by black performers.