Chapters 7 & 8

Question 1

Emile Berliner

Answer 1

invented the gramophone

Question 2

Guglielmo Marconi

Answer 2

invented the wireless telegraph.

Question 3

Columbia Broadcasting System

Answer 3

paley. first to use advertisements

Question 4

Motown Records

Answer 4

brought R&B records. most successful black owned business

Question 5

Digital Recording

Answer 5

a method of recording sound that involves storing music in a computer-readable format known as binary information

Question 6

FCC

Answer 6

federal communications commission- the federal agency charged with regulating telecommunications, including radio and television broadcasting

Question 7

Podcast

Answer 7

an audio program produced as an mp3 compressed music file that can be listened to online at the listeners convenience or downloaded to an mp3 or computer. some can contain video

Question 8

Country music

Answer 8

Originally referred to as hillbilly or “old timey” music. now nashville sound

Question 9

Hip-hop music

Answer 9

four main elements: MCing (rapping over music), DJing, B-boying (a style of dance), and graffiti art

Question 10

Sony Walkman

Answer 10

akio Morita. created a personal world

Question 11

KDKA

Answer 11

Pittsburghs radio station. first commercial radio station

Question 12

Amos ‘n’ Andy

Answer 12

biggest radio show. two white men playing the roles of two black men

Question 13

Dark side of the moon

Answer 13

the producer shaped the sound

Question 14

Shock Jocks

Answer 14

Radio personalities such as howard stern who attract listeners by making outrageous and offensive comments on the air

Question 15

NPR

Answer 15

National Public Radio - educational radio stations. Credible news source

Question 16

The Great Train Robbery

Answer 16

12 scenes. how stories should be told. bad guys should pay

Question 17

D. W. Griffith

Answer 17

produced feature length films - lasted more than an hour. the birth of a nation

Question 18

Jaws

Answer 18

first to gross more than 200 million. set the stage for summer movies

Question 19

The Blair Witch Project

Answer 19

very low budget movie

Question 20

First american movie filmed with digital sets

Answer 20

star wars

Question 21

High School Musical 3

Answer 21

low budget musical. made a lot of money

Question 22

Dalton Trumbo

Answer 22

blacklisted for not testifying in front of the house un-American activities committee about communism so he directed under a different name and won an award

Question 23

Avatar

Answer 23

outdid titanic. cost the most to make

Question 24

Phonograph

Answer 24

Invented by Thomas Edison. an early sound-recording machine. first music.

Question 25

Telegraph

Answer 25

Samuel Morse. allowed messages to be sent electornically

Question 26

concept albums

Answer 26

an album that contains related songs or a common theme