Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

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

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

In the late 1950s, singer Little Richard stopped performing rock and roll because he believed it was the "devil's music."

The Japanese developed audiotape after World War II.

The album that broke grunge music into the American mainstream was ______.

Folk music ______.

Use the following to answer questions: Matching Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Drag queen

Use the following to answer questions: Matching Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Died in plane crash

Most of the money earned from the sale of a CD goes to the royalties paid to the artist.

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

Describe one way in which the convergence of the recording industry and the Internet has changed the industry.Explain how these changes may be positive, negative, or both.

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

Folk is considered the sound of social activism.

Use the following to answer questions: Matching Match the items with the names with which they are most closely identified. -Earliest phonograph

Magnetic audiotape and tape players first caught on in the ______.

Why did hip-hop and punk rock emerge as significant musical forms in the late 1970s and 1980s? What do their developmental paths have in common, and how are they different?

Which of the following does not fall into the category of pop music?

How has the way people listen to music changed in the last decade or so? How might those changes affect the kinds of music that artists make? What does that mean for music as a part of culture?

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

In the 1950s, songs recorded or performed by musicians who did not originally write or perform the music, were called _________________________; they were an attempt by white producers and artists to capitalize on popular songs by blacks.