Deck 5: Sound Recording

Question 1

Who said "I truly believe that podcasting is a powerful communication tool"?

A) Neil Young
B) Chris McIntyre
C) The Dixie Chicks
D) Thomas Edison
E) Shawn Fanning

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to the CRIA,why is music piracy an issue in Canada?

A) Lack of copyright legislation with teeth
B) Too much Cancon control
C) Better recording facilities
D) More talented musicians
E) Lack of legal alternatives

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the Department of Canadian Heritage,independent labels are responsible for roughly what percentage of Cancon produced in Canada?

A) 50 percent
B) 60 percent
C) 75 percent
D) 80 percent
E) 90 percent

Answer 3

E

Question 4

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

A) CBC
B) RIAA
C) Sony BMG
D) Podcast Alley
E) Shawn Fanning

Question 5

According to Jeff Rose-Martland,why is there a decline in music sales of some music?

A) Not Canadian
B) Too expensive
C) Big Four monopoly
D) P2P file sharing
E) Poor quality

Question 6

Sun and Motown are examples of which kind of recording company?

A) Big Four
B) Indies
C) Little Four
D) Rebels
E) Podcasters

Question 7

In Canada,who is most likely to download music for free?

A) Seniors
B) Children
C) Adults
D) Pre-teens
E) Teenagers

Question 8

Which was the first online file sharing software?

A) Limewire
B) Podcast Alley
C) iTunes
D) Napster
E) Grokster

Question 9

Which of the following was Canada's first online music site,which debuted in 2004?

A) Napster
B) Puretracks
C) Kaaza
D) iTunes
E) Grokster

Question 10

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

A) The Dixie Chicks
B) Lynyrd Skynyrd
C) The Rolling Stones
D) The Fabulous Thunderbirds
E) ZZ Top

Question 11

Who recorded Jagged Little Pill,one of the RIAA's top 100 albums of all time?

A) The Beatles
B) The Dixie Chicks
C) Shania Twain
D) Neil Young
E) Alanis Morissette

Question 12

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

A) Paramount Music
B) Sony BMG
C) EMI
D) Universal Music
E) Warner Music

Question 13

Which of the following best describes the A&R structure in the recording industry?

A) A bottoms-up system
B) A top-down system for creating pop culture
C) A top-down system for creating classical music
D) A system run mainly by artists and musicians
E) A system committed to the demassification of music

Question 14

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

A) Consumers
B) Record shops
C) P2P download sites
D) Musicians
E) The Big Four

Question 15

What event shook up the recording industry's corporate landscape in the early 21st century?

A) The recording revolution
B) The file sharing crisis
C) The musician's strike
D) The CD crash
E) The artistic backlash

Question 16

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

A) Criminal music dubbing
B) Damaged albums
C) Poor quality
D) Live concerts
E) Greedy musicians

Question 17

What is the true cultural power of a song?

A) Its notes and lyrics
B) Its rhythmic influence
C) Its iconic meaning
D) Its denotative aspect
E) Its connotation

Question 18

In which province are most of the Canadian indie companies based?

A) Ontario
B) Quebec
C) British Columbia
D) Alberta
E) Nova Scotia

Question 19

What is one advantage of iTunes?

A) It was the first music download company.
B) It is illegal.
C) It is Canadian-owned.
D) The sound quality is exceptional.
E) It is free.

Question 20

According to the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA),what was the value of music sales in Canada in 2007?

A) $125 million
B) $439 million
C) $650 million
D) $900 million
E) $1.8 billion

Question 21

What is the Grammy Bounce?

A) An increase in sales after an artist appears at the Grammy Awards
B) An undeserving artist being given a Grammy
C) A Canadian musician receiving a Grammy award
D) An American artist winning at the Juno Awards
E) An artist leaves the music industry after failing to win a Grammy award

Question 22

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

A) Harvest, Neil Young
B) Blue, Joni Mitchell
C) After the Gold Rush, Neil Young
D) Music from Big Pink, The Band
E) Fully Completely, The Tragically Hip

Question 23

Music is more than the sum of its parts.

Question 24

Which award is given to a recording that sells 1 million copies in Canada?

A) Platinum record
B) Gold record
C) Silver seal
D) Diamond seal
E) Gold seal

Question 25

After the Canadian content regulations came into effect in 1971,what happened to the number of Canadian number-one singles on the CHUM charts in the following 13-year period?

A) They dropped from 35 to 25.
B) They dropped from 19 to 13.
C) They increased from 13 to 19.
D) They doubled from 15 to 30.
E) They more than tripled from 11 to 35.

Question 26

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

A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 65 percent
E) 35 percent

Question 27

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

A) 10 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 15 percent
D) 65 percent
E) 35 percent

Question 28

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

A) "Heart of Gold," Neil Young
B) "The Weight," The Band
C) "Hallelujah," Leonard Cohen
D) "American Woman," The Guess Who
E) "Summer of '69," Bryan Adams

Question 29

The power of recorded music is a recent phenomenon.

Question 30

Which formula is used to help the music industry define Canadian content?

A) MLAP
B) CRTC
C) PLMA
D) MAPL
E) CCCT

Question 31

Which event honours and awards music excellence in Canada?

A) Juno Awards
B) Grammy Awards
C) Gold Seal Awards
D) NARAS
E) CARAS

Question 32

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

Question 33

What gave individual artists and garage bands a means to control their art?

A) Low-cost recording and mixing equipment
B) The A&R system
C) P2P file sharing
D) The Big Four companies
E) A more homogeneous audience

Question 34

According to Allan Cross,where is most of the truly groundbreaking new music of today coming from?

A) File sharing sites
B) YouTube
C) The Big Four companies
D) Independent Labels
E) Canadian musicians

Question 35

In the 1950s and 1960s,Canadian music made up about what percentage of all music heard on Canadian radio?

A) 1 percent
B) 4 percent
C) 10 percent
D) 25 percent
E) 40 percent

Question 36

Which event honours and awards music excellence in the United States?

A) Juno Awards
B) Grammy Awards
C) Gold Seal Awards
D) NARAS
E) CARAS

Question 37

The true cultural power of song is in its connotation.

Question 38

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

Question 39

Which group,led by Tipper Gore and the wives of several other influential members of Congress,claimed that there were links between explicit rock music and teen suicide,teen pregnancy,abusive parents,broken homes,and other social ills?

A) The Congressional Wives Club
B) Concerned Parents of America
C) Parents for Real Music
D) Parents Music Resource Center
E) Mothers Against Bad Music

Question 40

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

A) Illegal download
B) Pirating
C) Payola
D) Cancon
E) MAPL

Question 41

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

Question 42

Recording technology has enabled artistic creativity.

Question 43

The large Canadian music retailer,Sam the Record Man,closed its flagship store in Toronto following a dispute with the Big Four recording companies.

Question 44

The CRIA argues that piracy is an issue in Canada because of the lack of copyright legislation with teeth.

Question 45

File sharing has had little impact on music retailers.

Question 46

Independent labels are responsible for a very small proportion of Cancon produced in Canada.

Question 47

Music piracy is not an issue in Canada.

Question 48

The majority of music sales in Canada are legal digital downloads.

Question 49

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

Question 50

There's no doubt that file sharing has affected music sales.

Question 51

A&R units contributed to a homogenizing of culture.

Question 52

iTunes,Canada's first online music site,debuted in 2008.

Question 53

File sharing had little impact on the recording industry's corporate landscape.

Question 54

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

Question 55

The recording industry is concentrated in four major companies.

Question 56

In 2004,the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that music downloading is legal.

Question 57

The Sony Walkman started the mobile digital music revolution.

Question 58

In 2003,the RIAA began legal action against individuals who downloaded music without paying.

Question 59

iTunes was the first online file sharing software.

Question 60

Musicians and performers have always been the heart of the recording industry.

Question 61

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

Question 62

To be categorized as Cancon,a song must generally fulfill all four of the MAPL conditions.

Question 63

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

Question 64

The Department of Canadian Heritage states that independent labels are responsible for roughly __________________ percent of Cancon produced in Canada.

Question 65

Payola refers to radio disk jockeys paying artists to write songs specifically for that station.

Question 66

The heart of the recording industry once was the powerful __________________ units at major labels.

Question 67

English-language and French-language radio stations must play 35 percent Cancon.

Question 68

Successful recordings can result only from manipulation.

Question 69

Historically,the radio and record industries have always been intimately connected.

Question 70

The recording industry is concentrated in a group of companies known as the__________________.

Question 71

The __________________ started the mobile digital music revolution.

Question 72

Until the recording industry's crisis with downloading,the biggest drain on sales had been __________________.

Question 73

The __________________ crisis in the early 21st century shook up the industry's corporate landscape.

Question 74

A recording that sells 1 million copies in Canada is awarded a diamond seal.

Question 75

Data from the Department of Canadian Heritage claim that __________________ of Canadians download music for free.

Question 76

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.

Question 77

Shawn Fanning's __________________ technology ushered in a frenzy of free file sharing on the internet in 2000.

Question 78

? __________________ invented the podcast.

Question 79

The Junos were named after Pierre Juneau,who was head of the CRTC when theCanadian content regulations were implemented.

Question 80

The semiotic school would argue that the notes and lyrics are simply the __________________ aspect of a song.