Lule Chapter 6: Music

Question 1

phonograph

Answer 1

a sound reproduction machine that originally recorded on tinfoil sheet wrapped around a CYLINDER

Question 2

gramophone

Answer 2

U.S. brand name for phonograph and used a DISC instead of a cylinder (named by Berliner)

Question 3

Tin Pan Alley

Answer 3

• New York City
• composer’s, artists, singers, and publisher worked together to create hit songs

Question 4

Vaudeville

Answer 4

a form of variety entertainment that included singing, magicians, comedians, and acrobats– popularized live shows (not opera)

Question 5

ragtime

Answer 5

jazzy style of piano music characterized by a syncopated melody

Question 6

the roaring 1920s

Answer 6

• starts the golden age of radio
• when radio broadcasting emerged, record sales (and sheet music) significantly decreased

Question 7

1930s rise of jazz

Answer 7

• jazz was improvisational music, primarily instrumental
• emerged in New Orleans
• relaxed attitudes towards racial segregation
• muddy waters artist

Question 8

blues (1930)

Answer 8

• 12-bar form of for singer and guitar
• Mississippi Delta

Question 9

Mersey beat 1960s

Answer 9

• British invasion
• Beatles
• Rolling Stones

Question 10

WHEN was the electric guitar made and by WHOM?

Answer 10

1931 & Adolph Rickenbacker

Question 11

rock and roll (1950)

Answer 11

• a blend of rhythm ,country, blues, folk, & gospel music
• named by Alan Freed from a late night radio show
• Elvis Presley

Question 12

rhythm & blues (1950)

Answer 12

• a combination of blues and jazz that was a precursor to rock and roll

Question 13

Payola

Answer 13

the illegal practice of receiving money from record companies for playing particular songs on the radio

Question 14

WHEN was the RPM LP disc released?

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

surf music (1960)

Answer 15

• carefree, pleasurable music from California
• beach boys

Question 16

Motown (1960)

Answer 16

• label developed for soul music by Berry Gordy Jr.

Question 17

folk (1960)

Answer 17

• unpolished, based on oral tradition, played on acoustic and electric guitar
• Bob Dylan

Question 18

folk rock (1960)

Answer 18

• folk music played with electric guitar
• Newport Folk Festival (Dylan goes electric)

Question 19

glam rock (1970)

Answer 19

costumes, makeup, hard rock

Question 20

disco (1970)

Answer 20

commercialized dance music

Question 21

punk (1970)

Answer 21

minimalist, angry form of rock (politically motivated lyrics)

Question 22

hip-hop (1980)

Answer 22

• rapping, sampling, break-dancing
• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

Question 23

Gangsta rap

Answer 23

• hip-hop that highlights violence (in inner-cities)
• Ice Cube and Tupac

Question 24

grunge (alternative rock) (1990)

Answer 24

alternative rock with distorted guitar sound

Question 25

pop (2000)

Answer 25

Billie Eillish (electropop)

Question 26

music in the 2020s

Answer 26

• hip-hop
• rap
• techno
• pop

Question 27

electronic (2000s)

Answer 27

reliance on synthesizers and drum machines