Deck 12: Whats on Your Playlist Subcultures, Racism, and Cultural Appropriation

Question 1

Musical tastes tell others something about who we are. In sociological terms, this means that tastes can be used to establish:

A) symbolic choices
B) symbolic boundaries
C) social mobility
D) social stratification

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Nowadays, production companies collect the types of revenue artists themselves collected in the past, such as merchandize and concert tickets. Which of the following is the most likely reason for this change?

A) Digitization of music
B) Discontinuation of payola
C) Audience's growing disinterest in music
D) Global recession

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the textbook, which of the following musical genres is NOT likely to be a form of political expression?

A) Jazz
B) Hip-hop
C) Classical music
D) American folk music

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Trendsetters are most likely to be:

A) politicians
B) powerful white men
C) established artists
D) members of subcultures

Question 5

Which of the following is true about subcultural capital?

A) It confirms authenticity of membership.
B) It conveys high status in mainstream culture.
C) It must include knowledge of popular fashion.
D) It can easily be gained by mass media consumption.

Question 6

Racially unequal outcomes of the American educational system can best be explained by:

A) individual prejudice of teachers
B) institutional racism
C) individual prejudice of white students
D) insufficient resources of african-american families

Question 7

Schools with a higher percentage of White students are more likely to have sufficient resources for teaching and extra-curricular activities. This is an example of:

A) class privilege
B) class resistance
C) white privilege
D) white political influence

Question 8

Which of the following groups makes up the majority of the American market for hip-hop music?

A) Latinos
B) African-Americans
C) Recent immigrants
D) White youth

Question 9

In the opinion of authors quoted in the textbook, which of the following makes cultural appropriation by an artist acceptable?

A) Personal experience of oppression
B) Understanding of oppressed groups
C) Political support of oppressed groups
D) Support of audiences for the artist's work

Question 10

Mainstream popularity of a subcultural style:

A) inspires respect for its oppressed creators
B) inspires respect for its successful marketers
C) makes the style acceptable for its mainstream followers, but not for its oppressed creators
D) makes the style acceptable for its oppressed creators, but not for its mainstream followers

Question 11

A researcher has found that white hip-hop fans declared that the race of the artist had no relevance for their appreciation of the music. Which of the following concepts does this illustrate?

A) Racism
B) Color-blind ideology
C) Cultural diffusion
D) Reverse racism

Question 12

Which of the following are the most likely to influence mass media playlists?

A) Consumers
B) Disc-jockeys
C) Artists and their agents
D) Production companies

Question 13

Which of the following is a result of oligopoly in the music industry?

A) Similarity of consumers' tastes and consumption
B) Increasing wealth of successful artists
C) Power of music journalists over artists
D) Power of music journalists over music executives

Question 14

What is the goal of textual analysis?

A) Explaining why some artists are better writers than others
B) Explaining why a piece of music became popular
C) Explaining how far research results can be generalized
D) Explaining the meaning of lyrics

Question 15

When you search for an item on Amazon, the system automatically displays a message "Other people who bought this item also bought (a selection of other items available on Amazon)." Which of the following phenomena does this illustrate?

A) Aggressive marketing
B) Individual-level marketing
C) Monopoly
D) Oligopoly

Question 16

A commentator wrote that White fans of hip-hop are attracted to everything about it but the burden of African-American lived experience. Explain this statement.

Question 17

Explain the significance of music as means of resistance to oppression, using the structure/agency thinking frame.

Question 18

What material conditions have given rise to hip-hop culture?

Question 19

Define cultural appropriation and describe an example of it.

Question 20

Use the material/cultural thinking frame to explain presence of boy bands in popular music.

Question 21

Define art and illustrate its characteristics on an example.