Exam 5: Sound Recording

When Canadian content regulations were introduced in 1971,this had no effect on the number of Canadian number-one singles on the CHUM charts in the following 13-year period.

Which of the following is not one of the Big Four recording companies?

Before P2P file sharing,what was the biggest drain on sales in the recording industry?

Which term is used to describe under-the-table payments made to plug a product in the mass media?

Which of the following represents recording companies and went to court against Napster in 2003?

Music is more than the sum of its parts.

According to Bob Mersereau,"American Woman" by The Guess Who is the top Canadian album.

On Bob Mersereau's list of The Top 100 Canadian Albums,which album tops the list?

Most of the indie companies in Canada are based in British Columbia.

Who have been the losers in the retailing change introduced by iTunes?

Which was the first online file sharing software?

According to Canadian regulations,French-language radio stations must play what percentage of Cancon?

Which Texas band offended George W.Bush loyalists in 2003?

Compare the measures of success used in the recording industry in Canada and in the United States.Why do you think there is a difference? How is music success awarded in Canada and in the United States?

Cancon regulations have had the result that songs now have many Canadian signifiers in their lyrics.

The notes and lyrics are the connotative aspect of a song.

Their music made the sassy Dixie Chicks the bad girls among George W.Bush loyalists.

According to Alan Cross,most of the truly groundbreaking new music today is coming from the small independent labels.

The Sony Walkman started the mobile digital music revolution.

In the 1980s,sophisticated low-cost recording and mixing equipment gave individual artists and garage bands a means to control their art.