Deck 5: Sound Recording and Popular Music

Question 1

Jimi Hendrix was a star of rock's psychedelic era.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

The recording industry switched from shellac to vinyl records during World War II.

Question 6

Thomas Edison made his first sound recordings on a cylinder wrapped in foil.

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

An artist's royalties make up only a small fraction of the sales price of a CD.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

Motown Records attracted a young, white audience primarily by emphasizing romance, vocals, and dance music over rebellion and politics.

Question 13

The music industry has successfully hindered systems that enable free music file sharing.

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

Blues music originated in the urban taverns of Southern California.

Question 17

In the 1920s, hundreds of radio stations went off the air because they could not afford to pay for the rights to broadcast recorded music.

Question 18

Audiotape was developed by the Japanese after World War II.

Question 19

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

Question 20

Popular music did not exist until the invention of phonographs.

Question 21

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?

A)Ray Charles made a No.1 hit covering a country song in 1962
B)The Marvellettes scored a No.1 hit with "Please Mr.Postman" in 1961
C)Little Richard had a hit, "Tutti Frutti," in 1956
D)Lauren Hill covered Frankie Valli's old tune "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" in 1998
E)No option is correct

Question 22

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

Question 23

The invention of _______________ paved the way for digital recording.

A)Wax cylinders
B)Lamp black
C)Flat disks
D)Audiotape
E)33-1/3 rpm records

Question 24

In the 1950s, authorities began censoring rock lyrics because of concerns about what?

A)Obscene and immoral behavior of recording artists
B)Juvenile delinquency
C)Monopolistic control of the music industry
D)The Cold War

Question 25

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

Question 26

In the 1950s, disc jockey Alan Freed, who coined the term rock and roll, attempted to make rhythm-and-blues music more acceptable to mainstream audiences by

A)Playing original rhythm-and-blues music and black versions of early rock and roll
B)Playing rhythm-and-blues songs as they were covered by white musicians
C)Developing formatted stations that targeted specific audiences with specific types of music
D)Developing payola practices that guaranteed the inclusion of particular songs on mainstream music stations
E)Having white musicians cover sacred gospel songs for mainstream audiences

Question 27

The music industry-especially major labels-finally embraced the MP3 format by supporting iTunes.

Question 28

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

A)BMG
B)Sony
C)Time Warner
D)RCA

Question 29

Under the compromise reached by CBS and RCA in 1953, singles were released on the _____ format.

A)33-1/3 rpm
B)45 rpm
C)78 rpm
D)CD

Question 30

Artists receive a performance royalty when one of their songs is played on the radio.

Question 31

Recording artists receive more than half of the price of a $1.29 iTunes download.

Question 32

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

A)White and black
B)Sacred and secular
C)Male and female
D)North and South
E)Old and young

Question 33

Independent labels produce only about 2 percent of all recordings.

Question 34

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

A)Berliner's disks were made of wax
B)Edison's disks could be mass produced
C)Berliner's disks were flat
D)Edison's disks were coated with lamp black

Question 35

Songwriters and publishers receive a mechanical royalty when they allow one of their copyrighted songs to be recorded.

Question 36

The Rolling Stones emphasized hard rhythms and vocals in their music, whereas the Beatles stressed melody.

Question 37

Folk is considered a more democratic and participatory form of music than other musical genres.