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In the Elvis lecture, we talked about the fact that Elvis did NOT make his TV debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. What was the name of the VERY FIRST TV program on which Elvis Presley appeared? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Hullabaloo b. The Milton Berle Show 100.0% c. The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show
Score: Question 2
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This musical genre is the most prominent influence in the style known as soul music, especially in terms of the vocals. Student response: Percent Value Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Delta blues b. Jazz 100.0% c. Gospel music
Score: Question 3
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Buddy Holly was one of the first guitarists to popularize his particular kind of solid-body electric guitar. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. the Rickenbacker 12string b. the Gibson Les Paul 100.0% c. the Fender Stratocaster
Score: Question 4
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. the art of recording a piece on a tape loop, producing a repeating sound b. the name of the first effects pedal, manufactured in the 40's 100.0% c. a production technique which was a trademark sound of Sam Phillips' recordings on the Sun label
What is `'slap-back echo?'' Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 5
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One of Elvis' biggest hits was `'Hound Dog.''It was a cover version of an earlier artist's recording, which we heard in class. Who was that earlier artist? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Muddy Waters b. Wynonie Harris 100.0% c. Willie Mae `'Big Mama'' Thornton
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Question 6
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Which of the following phrases best describes factors that shaped New Orleans' musical culture? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Racial diversity, `'street culture,'' Caribbean influence, and a strong tradition of musical families b. Immigration from the South to the North, the rise of jukeboxes, and the auto industry c. The influence of Chicano music, an influx of agricultural workers, and the dominance of the movie industry
Score: Question 7
1/1 (1 point) Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Pete Townshend b. Buddy Holly 100.0% c. Eddie Cochran
Who wrote `'Summertime Blues?'' Student response:
Score: Question 8
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This doo-wop group and their 13-year old singer was the prototype for later groups such
as the Jackson 5. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers b. The Dell-Vikings c. Dion and the Belmonts
Score: Question 9
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GAROFALO: On the basis of Chapter 5 in the Garofalo book (which includes `'the Attack on Rock and Roll,'') we can state that many of the lawsuits and scandals in the music business in the late 1950s were generated by the following agenda: Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 0.0% Answer Choices a. to further the cause of rock and roll, which was clearly becoming a major American art form b. to convince stations to play more black music in the interest of a more culturally diverse musical scene c. to curb and control the `'spread'' of rock and roll, which was a financial threat to the last vestiges of Tin Pan Alley, and a racial threat to a certain economic demographic
Score: Question 10
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GAROFALO 5: Of the many dance crazes of the early 60s, this one was most popular, spawning a number of other records. It was a number one hit (twice!) for Chubby Checker, whose single of the same name remained the best-selling single of all time until the 1970s. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. The Pony b. The Twist c. The Jerk
Score: Question 11
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Which of the following three genres is best described by these traits: high, trebledominated, percussive guitar sound, boogie woogie riffs, `'black blues speeded up,'' minimal production values, and a high energy, `'rough'' sound? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. doo-wop b. 1960's ``girl groups'` 100.0% c. Rockabilly
Score: Question 12
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This popular deejay's `'Moondog Rock and Roll Party'' brought R&B to a whole new audience of young white radio listeners. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Johnny Otis b. Alan Freed
c. Fats Domino
Score: Question 13
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This rockabilly guitarist and singer recorded for Sun Records. He is the author of the tune `'Blue Suede Shoes.'' His influence on subsequent rockers was very strong, and many people recorded cover versions of his songs, including the Beatles (`'Honey Don't,'' `'Everybody's Trying to be my Baby.'') Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Carl Perkins b. Eddie Cochran c. Chet Atkins
Score: Question 14
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This famous `'jump blues'' bandleader had a huge black/white crossover audience and was known for his energetic and humorous performances. In class we listened to his hit song `'Caldonia.'' Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Louis Armstrong b. Louis Jordan c. Michael Jordan
Score: Question 15
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This famous and very influential African-American gospel / soul singer, himself influenced by New Orleans artists, often would base a popular song on a pre-existent melody of a gospel church song, a practice which some found controversial, but which gained him enormous popularity.
Student response:
Percent Value 100.0%
Correct Response
Student Response
Answer Choices a. Ray Charles b. Sam Cooke c. Otis Redding
Score: Question 16
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This famous pop duo was known for their close vocal harmonies, great pop tunes with catchy, singable melodies, and a backup band that consisted of some of the hottest Nashville session players. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. The Everly Brothers b. Ike and Tina Turner c. Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller
Score: Question 17
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This artist was known as ``Godfather of Soul'`' and the ``Hardest Working Man in Show Business.'` His stage show included a virtuosic band and carefully planned choreography and stage theatrics, including a famous bit in which he would supposedly collapse and his ``attendants'` would put a cape over him. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. James Brown b. Sam Phillips c. Ray Charles
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Question 18
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The invention of the jukebox, the invention of the electric guitar, and the migration of African-American workers from the southern states to the northern states after WW2 are all factors contributing to the development of _________. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. bebop jazz b. urban or electric blues c. honky-tonk country
Score: Question 19
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. It was an AfricanAmerican musical style that was attracting a young white audience at a time when racism was especially rampant b. Some of the lyrics were sexually suggestive and/or explicit 100.0% c. both a and b
Why was R&B controversial in the late 40's and early 50's? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 20
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This particular ethnic group accounted for many white doo-wop groups that came out of
New York and Philadelphia.Many white doo-wop groups came out of Philadelphia and New York. There was an especially large number of white doo-wop groups that came from this particular ethnic group: Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Irish-Americans b. Italian-Americans c. Polish- Americans
Score: Question 21
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Supplemental Reading 9: Fire from the Streets: On the basis of this article, which of the following contributed strongly to the eruption of violence that took place in Detroit and Watts in 1967? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 0.0% Answer Choices a. There was nationwide furor amongst American college students over the country's continual involvement in the Vietnam war b. There had been continuous confrontations between rural Christian blacks and inner-city Muslim blacks c. Despite the Civil Rights movements, many inner-city African-Americans were still living in depressed economic conditions with inadequate jobs,
housing and education
Score: Question 22
0/1 (1 point) Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Brian Wilson b. James Brown c. Jackie Wilson
Whose band was called the ``Famous Flames'`? Student response:
Score: Question 23
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The songwriting credits on Chuck Berry's hit `'Maybelline'' were given to Berry, Alan Freed, and Russ Fratto, which meant that Freed and Fratto were getting 2/3 of the royalties. Why did the record company do this? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Because Alan Freed and Russ Fratto had come up with the musical arrangement 100.0% b. It was `'payola'' so that Freed and Fratto would promote the record c. Because Freed and Fratto owned Chess Records and they were taking a `'cut'' of the profits
Score: Question 24
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This 1951 song was played by musicians who grew up in the Delta. It was recorded at Sun studios in Memphis. It was released by Chess records in Chicago. It features Ike Turner's piano playing in a `'jump blues'' style, and a slightly distorted `'fuzzy'' guitar sound. All in all, these factors come together to create one of the first singles regarded as a true `'rock and roll'' single. We heard it in class, and it's discussed in the Gass book. Which one of the following songs am I most likely to be referring to? Student response: Percent Correct Value Response 100.0% Student Response Answer Choices a. Rocket 88 b. St Louis Blues c. Blueberry Hill
Score: Question 25
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He was one of the greatest singers and songwriters in the history of American/AfricanAmerican popular music. He grew up singing gospel music, and got his first break as a member of the gospel group called the `'Soul Stirrers.'` A good businessman, he also started his own record company. His smooth, effortless vocal style, with its characteristic ``whooooa'` phrases and sweet tone, influenced a whole generation of soul singers. He was shot to death in a hotel in LA in 1964. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Ray Charles b. Sam Cooke c. Jackie Wilson
Score: Question 26
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This highly influential Lubbock, Texas writer, singer and guitarist was the first major white rock & roll artist to write and produce his own songs. He combined the influences of western swing, white gospel and rockabilly, and had a short but very intense period of
fame, culminating in his death in a plane crash in 1959. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Buddy Holly b. Stevie Ray Vaughan c. Roy Orbison
Score: Question 27
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. A famous promoter whose concerts of rhythm and blues music brought together both 0.0% b. A famous DJ who brought R&B to a whole new audience of young white listeners; his career was later wrecked by the payola scandal c. both a and b
Who was Alan Freed? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 28
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According to many rock historians, including both your textbooks, this artist is often considered to be stylistically the great transitional figure between the 1950s and 1960s. Student response: Percent Correct Value Response 100.0% Student Response Answer Choices a. Elvis Presley b. Buddy Holly
c. John Lennon
Score: Question 29
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Which of the following was NOT an important factor in the development of country music? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Appalachian music b. Tin Pan Alley song 0.0% c. Scots Irish Folk music d. church music e. string bands
Score: Question 30
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If you hear High gravelly vocal technique, silly or off-color lyrics, hot piano playing, lots of saxophone solos, which of these artists is it most likely to be? Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Elvis Presley b. Little Richard c. Buddy Holly
Score: Question 31
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Which of the following styles is characterized by the use of acoustic guitar, bottleneck slide, ``walking bass'` rhythms, and a ``hollering'` vocal style?
Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0%
Answer Choices a. Mississippi Delta Blues b. Jump blues c. Bluegrass
Score: Question 32
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The most common blues structure is `'12-bar blues.'' Understanding the basic structure does not require special musical training, and was explained and demonstrated in class. Which of the following is the best explanation of the term 12-bar blues? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. it means a pattern of 4 `'beats'` that repeats twelve times, with a corresponding set of standard chord changes played by the musicians b. it means music that is played mostly in bars, over and over by touring musicians c. it means that there are always 12 verses in a typical blues song
Score: Question 33
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This city's mixture of French, African, English, Spanish, West Indian, Cajun and Creole ethnicities has given it a rich, diverse, and vital cultural and musical history. Student response: Percent Correct Student Answer Choices
Value 100.0%
Response
Response a. New Orleans b. Boston c. Chicago
Score: Question 34
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This man and two of his female family members comprised one of the most important early country music groups. He was also an important collector of folk and country music songs. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Gene Autry b. AP Carter c. Ralph Peer
Score: Question 35
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Many of the musical roots of blues can be found in work songs, ``field hollers,'` dance music and worship music from the following country: Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. India Africa England
Score: Question 36
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Part of this famous soul singer's act included falling to his knees while the others draped a silk cape over him and helped him to his feet, whereupon he would jump up again and
continue singing. This usually happened during a song called `'Please please please.'' Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. James Brown b. Sam Cooke c. Jackie Wilson
Score: Question 37
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Many doo-wop singers were `'one hit wonders,'' and did not become financially successful in the long term. Which of the following is the best explanation for this fact? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. The record companies were not very interested in marketing doo-wop 100.0% b. Many of them were very young and the record companies took advantage of their lack of business acumen c. Doo-wop was not very popular with the record-buying public
Score: Question 38
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This singer began his career with the Dominoes, and then formed his own group, the Drifters. His high, emotional vocal style influenced many singers after him. He and Solomon Burke are sometimes both called the `'first soul singer.'' Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices
100.0%
a. Clyde McPhatter b. Jimmy Ricks c. Joe Turner
Score: Question 39
1/1 (1 point) Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. South America b. The Middle East 100.0% c. Africa
This continent is the source of the musical roots of blues. Student response:
Score: Question 40
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GAROFALO 5: The 1959 House Committee hearings on this particular scandal were partly based on the assumption that `'no deejay would play a music as inferior and tasteless as rock and roll unless he was handsomely rewarded for it.'' To which scandal does this refer? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Chuck Berry's trial b. the `'payola'' scandal c. the McCarthy communist witchhunt
Score: Question 41
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The publishing company Aldon Music hired a team of expert songwriters to crank out hits for many groups in the 60s. This group of songwriters became known by the name of the New York location in which Aldon Music had their offices. What was the name of the location? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Rockefeller Center b. The Brill Building c. The Sears Tower
Score: Question 42
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. Two singers who were famous for their close vocal harmonies 100.0% b. a famous songwriting duo who wrote many R&B hits in the 1950's c. The owners of Chess Records in Chicago
Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller were ... Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 43
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In the early 50's, how did the major labels take advantage of the R&B artists and their successes on small `'indie'' labels? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. They fired all of their R&B artists
100.0%
b. They threw their money behind `'cover'' versions of R&B hits, done by white artists c. They made it impossible for radio stations to play R&B hits
Score: Question 44
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This independent music producer and founder of Sun Records discovered Elvis and recorded many other greats such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins. He influence on the world of rock and roll was enormous. He died in 2003, at age 80. His name was . . . Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Colonel Tom Parker b. Arthur `'Big Boy'' Crudup 100.0% c. Sam Phillips
Score: Question 45
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Rhythm and blues differs from rural / Delta blues in several ways. Which of the following characteristics is NOT an example of how rhythm and blues differs from rural/Delta blues? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. instrumentation b. the use of the 12-bar blues form c. emphasis on dance
rhythms 0.0% d. use of musical `'arrangements''
Score: Question 46
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This man became Elvis's manager in 1955 and remained his manager for the rest of his life, often strongly influencing the course of Elvis's career. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Sam Phillips b. Colonel Tom Parker c. Vernon Presley
Score: Question 47
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. Fats Domino's drummer 100.0% b. The co-founder of Atlantic Records c. Jerry Lee Lewis' first wife
Who was Ahmet Ertegun? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 48
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Big Joe Turner's R&B hit `'Shake, Rattle & Roll'' was covered the same year (1954) by the following early rock and roll group:
Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Answer Choices a. The Ink Spots b. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters
100.0%
c. Bill Haley and the Comets
Score: Question 49
1/1 (1 point) Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Gene Vincent b. Buddy Holly c. Eddie band's Cochran
His name, The Crickets, inspired the name of the Beatles. Student response:
Score: Question 50
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This famous singer, born in Wink, Texas, was greatly admired by Elvis. His strong, powerful voice and heart-wrenching love songs brought him over 27 hit songs in the early 60's, including `'Only the Lonely'' and `'Pretty Woman,'' which was covered by Van Halen years later. Student response: Percent Value 0.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Neil Sedaka b. Roy Orbison c. Buddy Holly
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Question 51
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Supplemental Reading 9: Fire from the Streets: In the 1960's, this musical genre was strongly associated with black militance and the civil rights movement, because it reflected the search for an African-American identity. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Rural country blues b. Big-band swing 100.0% c. Soul music
Score: Question 52
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Sam Cooke had a huge posthumous hit called `'A Change is Gonna Come.'' The song has an important political message. What contemporary issue did that song address? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. The shady practices of the music business 100.0% b. The Civil Rights movement c. The Cold War
Score: Question 53
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Buddy Holly's popularity resulted in the widespread use of the following combination of instruments: Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. slide guitar, saxophone, bass, drums b. guitar, electric keyboards, horn
section, drums 100.0% c. 2 guitars, bass, drums
Score: Question 54
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This group's comical hits, such as Charlie Brown and Yakety-Yak, featured storylines, bass vocal solo phrases, and the distinctive saxophone style of King Curtis. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. The Drifters b. The Coasters c. Dion & the Belmonts
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Question 55 (1 point) GAROFALO 5: One element of the huge mid-1950's controversy and attack on rock and roll was tied in with the rivalry between two major performing-rights companies. One of these companies was very prominently sympathetic to rock, R&B, and indie labels, and had many of those artists on its roster; the other was openly hostile, and viewed it as a threat, leading to all kinds of legal mayhem. Which of the following is accurate? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. ASCAP had many rock, R&B, and indie artists on its roster, and BMI viewed them as a threat 100.0% b. BMI had many rock, R&B, and indie artists on its roster, and ASCAP viewed them as a threat
Score: Question 56
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From the 40s through the 60s, the studio run by Costimo Matassa was the location for the recording of most of New Orleans' great R&B and rock & roll hits. Matassa had a firstrate studio band that was led by this songwriter, arranger, and bass player: Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Joe Tipitina b. Dave Bartholomew 0.0% c. Professor Longhair
Score: Question 57
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This musical `'hellraiser'' was one of rock and roll's most influential piano players, whose wild, out-of-control performing style, outrageous personal life (and 13-year old wife) made him a controversial figure. His music can be characterized by a driving boogie-woogie based piano, high pounding chords, fast passages and glissandos, and very high energy. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Sam Phillips b. Jerry Lee Lewis c. Billy Lee Riley
Score: Question 58
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Elvis Presley and many others were seen on this 1950s 1960s TV show, which introduced many rock and roll bands to American listeners. The host wouldn't let them film Elvis below the waist. (This show also featured the American debut of the Beatles in 1964.) Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices
a. Hollywood Palace b. The Smothers Brothers 100.0% c. The Ed Sullivan Show
Score: Question 59
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This famous blues artist's real name was McKinley Morganfield. He was from the Delta, but moved to Chicago and changed to an electric style. He led one of Chicago's first great blues bands, with Little Walter, Otis SPann, Jimmie Rogers, Elgin Evans, and Willie Dixon. One of his very famous hits was called ``I just want to Make Love to You,'` recorded in 1953. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Barry Gordy b. Muddy Waters c. Robert Johnson
Score: Question 60
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This artist was one of the first musical `'pop stars'' to be catapulted to fame because of a role in a TV show. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 0.0% Answer Choices a. Ozzy Osbourne b. Lucille Ball c. Ricky Nelson
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Question 61
(1 point) Answer Choices a. an early R&B style with strong, driving rhythms and characteristic piano bass patterns b. the name of a jazz band from the 30's that recorded in Chicago c. the name of a dance that was popularized in the 1970's
Boogie-Woogie is... Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0%
Score: Question 62
1/1 (1 point)
During 1956 and 57, Elvis had the #1 position on the record charts for 58 weeks. Around this time, he became involved in another aspect of show business. What was that? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. he started making movies b. he started producing records for other artists c. he started acting on Broadway
Score: Question 63
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This independent record label was known for its excellent R&B recordings in the 1950s,
and went on to become one of the leading record labels for Soul music in the 1960's, eventually becoming a major label. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. c. Atlantic Sun RCA
Score: Question 64
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. a famous radio show broadcast from Nashville b. a TV situation comedy about country music c. an opera house in New Orleans
What was Grand Ole Opry? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0%
Score: Question 65
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The combination of several events at the end of the 1950's left many people wondering about the future of rock and roll. Actually, the events only signaled the end of an era. Which of the following is **NOT** one of those events? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. The death of Buddy Holly b. The prison term of Chuck Berry
100.0%
c. The end of the Vietnam war d. Elvis being drafted
Score: Question 66
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. A famous composer of instrumental ``surf'` tunes 100.0% b. He owned and operated the very famous J&M recording studio in New Orleans c. A famous songwriter who worked in the Brill Building in New York
Who was Cosimo Matassa? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 67
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True or false: Rockabilly had a longer life span in Britain than in America, and many of its artists were more famous in Britain than in America. Student response: Percent Value 0.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. True False
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Question 68
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Supplemental Reading 8: The Ballot or the Bullet. Which of the following accurately describes Malcolm X's view of the political philosophy of ``black nationalism?'` Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 0.0% Answer Choices a. The black man should strive to eventually control the politics and the politicians of the United States. b. The black man should strive to eventually control the politics and the politicians in his own community.
Score: Question 69
0/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. He recorded a bunch of Beatle tunes 100.0% b. He got back in shape and booked a onehour long NBC TV special c. He fired his manager
In 1968 Elvis decided to stage a `'comeback.'' What did he do? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 70
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This famous radio show, broadcast from Nashville, helped to popularize country music throughout America. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Grand Ole Opry b. Hee Haw c. Blue Moon of Kentucky
Score: Question 71
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Which one of the following artists illustrates the popularity of `'the singer over the song?'' Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. The Great Pretender, The Platters 100.0% b. Blue Suede Shoes, Elvis c. In the Still of the Night, the Five Satins
Score: Question 72
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. The Brill Sound 100.0% b. The Wall of Sound c. The Spector Sound
The `'dense, reverberant texture'' of Phil Spector's recordings became known as... Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 73
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This dance-oriented country music style, pioneered by Bob Wills, was popular in the southwest and Texas. It featured electric `'steel'` guitars, and had a strong beat influenced to some extent by Big Band music. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 0.0% Answer Choices a. honky tonk b. rockabilly c. Western Swing
Score: Question 74
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This recording technique, which became widespread in the 60s and beyond, created a situation in which the artists could not reproduce their recorded sound in a live performance. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. the use of overdubbing b. the use of electric instruments c. the use of background singers
Score: Question 75
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True or false: Buddy Holly was one of the first major white rock and roll artists to write and produce his own songs. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. True
b.
False
Score: Question 76
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This famous 1920's singer, known to many as the `'first true country star,'` was known for his trademark `'yodeling.'` Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Gene Autry b. Jimmie Rodgers c. Johnny Cash
Score: Question 77
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The vocal styles, musical characteristics, emotional intensity and the spirit of community central to this music came largely from the gospel tradition. The gospel elements blended with and influenced the dance grooves, musical arrangements, and subject matter of R&B, creating a new style which also closely mirrored the growing civil rights movement in America. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. Rockabilly b. Soul c. Doo-Wop
Score: Question 78
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What inner conflict troubled many southern rockers whose musical roots were in both gospel and blues? Student response: Percent Correct Student Answer Choices
Value Response Response a. the struggle between liberal and conservative politics 100.0% b. the struggle between gospel as sacred music and blues as wordly or ``sinful'` music c. the struggle between music as a profession and music as a hobby
Score: Question 79
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Supplemental Reading 8: The Ballot or the Bullet. True or false: There was a strong connection between the development of the Black Muslim faith and the issues raised by the Civil Rights Movement. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. True False
Score: Question 80
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. solid body electric guitars b. early synthesizers c. radio broadcasting satellites
The Stratocaster and the Telecaster are two examples of... Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0%
Score: Question 81
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This world-renowned independent record label was established in Chicago in the 1940's by two brothers. It started out as a blues label, featuring Muddy Waters and others, and eventually signed on a number of pop and rock artists as well. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. Chess Records b. Sun Records c. Atlantic Records
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Question 82 (1 point) What's a ``backbeat?'` Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. When the emphasis in a 4-beat rhythm is on 1 and 3: ONE two THREE four 100.0% b. When the emphasis in a 4-beat rhythm is on 2 and 4: one TWO three FOUR c. When there is no emphasis on any particular beat in a 4beat rhythm
Score: Question 83
1/1 (1 point)
Brackett 25: What is the connection between Rock and Roll and the controversy caused by legislation such as ``Brown vs. the Board of Education?'` Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Rock and Roll was distracting the youth of America, causing them to be completely unaware of political and racial issues 0.0% b. This is a trick question; there is no connection between Rock and Roll and Brown vs. the Board of Education c. Rock and roll was drawing huge audiences of both whites and blacks, showing an interconnection between early rock and roll and the push to end racial segregation
Score: Question 84
0/1 (1 point)
Supplemental Reading 5: Sixties Chronology. Based on your reading of this chronology, which of the following does NOT describe the social and / or cultural trends of the 1960s in the USA? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0% Answer Choices a. a general sense of apathy and complacency with the status quo
b. an enormous amount of social upheaval, discontent, and antiwar sentiment c. huge strides in civil rights, science, technology
Score: Question 85
1/1 (1 point)
Slow triplets are a characteristic sound in the doo-wop style. This was demonstrated in class on the piano several times in the course of the doo-wop lecture. Which phrase best describes the use of `'slow triplets'' in doo-wop music? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. There are always three background singers b. In the melody of the song, there are always three repeating notes 100.0% c. The strumming or striking of the chord takes place three equal-length times for each beat
Score: Question 86
1/1 (1 point)
This singer-songwriter's voice and his moving and deeply personal songs made him one of country music's greatest legends. He was a star of the Grand Ole Opry, but his troubles with alcohol and drugs led him to an early death from a heart attack at age 29. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices
0.0%
a. Bill Monroe b. Willie Nelson c. Hank Williams
Score: Question 87
0/1 (1 point)
This influential and popular music TV show was the centerpiece of the Philadelphia `'teen idol''industry. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Ozzie and Harriet b. Ed Sullivan 100.0% c. American Bandstand
Score: Question 88
1/1 (1 point)
This producer and his studio played an important part in the development of Buddy Holly's musical career. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Sam Phillips, in Memphis 100.0% b. Norman Petty, in Clovis NM c. Ahmet Ertegun, at Atlantic
Score: Question 89
1/1 (1 point)
Chuck Berry's style is a mixture of country and rhythm and blues, featuring an emphasis
on guitar `'riffs'', a slightly distorted guitar sound, boogie-type piano style, AND ____________. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. lyrics that were mostly nonsense 100.0% b. lyrics that were often narrative, aimed at a crossover (black and white) audience c. lyrics that were based on older blues tunes from the 40s
Score: Question 90
1/1 (1 point)
True or False: `'Johnny B Goode'' is on the encoded disk that was sent out to space on Voyager. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. True False
Score: Question 91
1/1 (1 point) Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Clyde McPhatter b. Little Richard 100.0% c. Elvis
That's All Right, Mama was the first big hit for... Student response:
Score: Question 92
1/1 (1 point)
True or false: The crossover successes of black artists such as Chuck Berry and white artists such as Elvis blurred the lines between `'rhythm and blues'' and `'rock and roll.'' Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. True False
Score:
1/1
Question 93 (1 point) True or false: the success of many of the `'girl groups'' of the 1960s was directly connected to their link with a specific producer. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. True False
Score: Question 94
1/1 (1 point)
The trademark sound of boogie-woogie can be found in the strong rhythms and characteristic bass patterns played on this instrument: Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. piano b. saxophone c. guitar
Score:
1/1
Question 95
(1 point)
Supplemental Reading 8: The Ballot or the Bullet. Judging from Malcolm X's 1964 speech ``The Ballot or the Bullet,'` we can conclude the following: Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. Malcolm X felt that the victories of the Civil Rights movement had made it much less crucial for black Americans to be militant 100.0% b. Malcolm X felt that establishing a black identity and a black ``nationalism'` was a very important factor in gaining freedom and equal rights for black Americans.
Score: Question 96
1/1 (1 point)
True or false: after the Depression, the big major record labels signed contracts with hundreds of black recording artists. Student response: Percent Value 100.0% Correct Response Student Response Answer Choices a. b. True False
Score: Question 97
1/1 (1 point)
In the early 60s, the `'buying power'' of this particular demographic group strongly influenced major record companies in their rather mainstream and non-threatening choice of music, lyrics, and arrangements.
Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 100.0%
Answer Choices a. the American (mostly white) teenage audience b. European teenagers buying American records c. American adults in the 35-50 age group
Score: Question 98
1/1 (1 point) Answer Choices a. sax, piano, bass 0.0% b. sax, guitar, trumpet c. guitar, clarinet, bass
In New Orleans-style R&B, these three instruments are featured prominently. Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response
Score: Question 99
0/1 (1 point)
Brackett 24: Judging from the articles contained in the ``Rock'n'Roll Meets the Popular Press'` excerpts in the Brackett book, the mainstream American media in the 50's portrayed rock'n'roll as: Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response Answer Choices a. the great new American art form, soon to be global 100.0% b. a disastrous and degenerate influence on America's youth c. not something to be
particularly concerned about
Score: Question 100
1/1 (1 point)
Which one of the following songs would most likely exemplify the phenomenon in which the song itself, rather that the fame of the singer, is the main factor in its popularity? Student response: Percent Correct Student Value Response Response 0.0% Answer Choices a. Blue Suede Shoes, Elvis b. Long Tall Sally, Little Richard c. In the Still of the Night, the Five Satins (a doo-wop hit)
Score:
0/1
Total score:
85 / 100 = 85.0%