MidTerm 1

Question 1

Genres of Pop Music
-formulaic to get sales
-mass produced
-2 groups:
pop or mass
-radio, CD, online, etc.
-Tin Pan Alley

Answer 1

Commercial.

Question 2

Genres of Pop Music

• support a cause, news related
• time “stamped”: weird without context

Answer 2

Topical

Question 3

Genres of Pop Music\

• rural countryside
• NOT sung by stars/strangers

Answer 3

Folk

Question 4

Sub-Genres for?
 Cowboy Songs
– Including what has come to be known as hillbilly music
 Laments
 Spirituals
 Work songs
 Ballads
 Blues

Answer 4

(Indigenous) Folk music in the United States.

Quickly commodified.

Question 5

What is the organization of a commutative body–the division of labor and forms of authority/power within?

Answer 5

Politics

Question 6

The French Revolution shifted the sense of being political into what two categories?

Answer 6

Political State
&
Civil Society

Question 7

Public Sphere:

• political rights
• political office
• voting rights

Which branch of the Modern Liberal State Post-1789?

Answer 7

Political State

Question 8

Private Sphere:

• Civil Rights
• Religion
• Home/Family
• Private Property
• Inheritance/Divorce Laws

Which branch of the Modern Liberal State Post-1789?

Answer 8

Civil Society

Question 9

Theories of Power:

Who argued the Nature of Humans is to be Political?

Answer 9

Aristotle

Question 10

Theories of Power:

Who philosophized over Class Struggle and Revolution?

Answer 10

Marx

Question 11

Theories of Power:

Who spoke about False Consciousness and the Forms of Resistance Under Regimes?

Answer 11

Gramsci and James Scott

Question 12

Theories of Power:

Who theorized about the Politics of Spirituality?

Answer 12

Nietzche

Question 13

Theories of Power:

What school taught about the Politics of Culture?

Answer 13

Frankfurt School (Adorno, Benjamin)

Question 14

Theories of Power:

Who talks about the Modern Forms of Power?

Answer 14

Foucalt

Question 15

Which Domain of Political/Music Intersection?

Protest Songs

• Magnetic; follow Marxist economics
  ex: Unionism, labor rights, etc.

Role of Musicians as role models for change

• Bob Dylan, 60s
• mass media and the power of the “hero”

Answer 15

As An Agent of Change

Question 16

Which Domain of Political/Music Intersection?

Anti-Hegemonic Songs
ex: Spirituals, Work Songs, Blues

Hidden Level; “private transcript”

Answer 16

as an Implicit Critical Commentary on Power Structure

Question 17

Which Domain of Political/Music Intersection?

Music through the Civil Rights:
Sh-Boom, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, James Brown

Answer 17

as a Mirror of Historical, Political and Cultural Change

Question 18

Which Domain of Political/Music Intersection?

Funk, Hip-Hop

• Afro-Am experiences
• black pride

Country
- white working class experiences

Answer 18

Source of natoinal and community Pride

Question 19

What was one of the earliest attempts by the
-farmers
-small producers
-industrial working class
to protect themselves from MONOPOLY CAPITALISM?

P.S.
Est. Texas 1870s

Answer 19

American Populism

Question 20

What movement tried to move power from the political elite to representatives of the people?
…& a Radical Social Movement in 1880s

Answer 20

American Populism

Question 21

American Pop-ism Top 3

Which of the three involved:
-Railroads
-Telegraphs
- Demand for government ownership
??

Answer 21

Technology

Question 22

Which -ism responded to the industrial revolution and its link to monopoly capitalism?

Answer 22

Populism, American Populism…

Question 23

American Pop-ism Top 3

Which one pushed for settlers and not for speculative purposes?

Answer 23

Land! Earth bending an what not…

Question 24

American Pop-ism Top 3

Which pushed for:
-reduced interest rates
&
-reduced mortgage rates from banks
yet,
-PUSHED for INFLATION so farmers could pay back debts (post-civil war)

Answer 24

MONEY $$$!