Test 1 Flashcards

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What is the form of Blues?

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-12 bar blues, usually 1, 4, 5 chord form

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What is the lyrical form of blue

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-1 line, repeat, resolution

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Who was Elvis’s manager

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-Sam Phillips

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Characterize Elivi’s Career

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  • started out writing covers
  • transitiioned to RR, faster music,
  • elvis the pevlis dancing made parents concerned
  • tried to ccensor his dancing
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Who was Wanda Jackson

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  • women artist in the 1950s

- had difficulty because she was a women

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Who sung Hot Dog and what was it about

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  • Wanda Jackson
  • women empowerment
  • 12 bar blue
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Who was Ritchie Valens

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  • anomaly full spanish song the was successful
  • popular rift off Mexican folk song
  • line, repeat, resolution
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What were the payola hearings

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  • congressional hearings about bribing of RR music by the radio
  • DJ Alan Freed arrested and fined and disgraced
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What were contributions of RR?

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  • combined RB, gospal music
  • teenage issues
  • audience integration
  • 12 bar blue importance
  • electric guitar being used more often
  • importance of stage performance
  • blue collar
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Who’s cover of mystery train did Elvis Cover?

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-Junior Parker

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Who sang ‘the twist’ and what was the significance?

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  • Chubby checker
  • new dance craze that inspired many modern day dance crazes
  • done by old and young people
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what was the significance of the brill building?

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  • combining music from tin pan alley era, with rock, rhythm, and blues elements to create new popular music in the 50s
  • associated with girl group music explosion
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What was Aldon Music?

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  • part of the brill building era
  • music publishing company that contracted writres such as neil diamond and phil spectre who would wrtie music for black female singers
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who sang love me tomorrow?

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  • the shirrelles

- classical orchestra, less RB, AABA

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Who was phil spectre?

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  • record producer
  • pioneer the wall of sound
  • controlled all spected of the producing
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What was the wall of sound

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  • pioneed by phil spectre
  • many different instruents layered over each other
  • wrecking crew band made the music for many of the hits
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who was carol kaye?

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  • guitarist who played on more pop hits than any artist

- played for the wrecking crew

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who sings ‘uptown’?

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  • the crystals (1962)
  • higher frequency of instruments
  • class distinctions
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who sings ‘be my baby’?

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-the ronettes (1962)

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what are brill buidlig contribution

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  • wall of sounds
  • combination of tin pan alley, Rythem, rock, gospal ,
  • inclusion of feamle artists and lyricists
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What was hitsville USA?

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  • birthplace of motown music in detroit
  • owned by Berry Gordon
  • african american owned business during civil rights era
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what was motown recipe for a hit?

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  • hook in the first few seconds of the song
  • lyrical pronowns i.e me, I, you
  • present tense lyrics
  • smooth uran style
  • simple 4/4 metre
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what was motown artist development

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  • included choregography, vocal coaching, charm school
  • made the artists more appealing to fans
  • sexy but not vulgar
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who sang ‘my girl’?

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  • the temptations
  • bass hook in first few seconds
  • smooth urban feel
25
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who sang ‘you cant hurry love’?

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  • the supremes
  • clear hook
  • simple 4/4 meter
26
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how did the beach boys promote surf culture?

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  • ssang about california, lifestyle surfing
  • inspired by Brill building and chuck berry (guitar)
  • ‘i get around’ and ‘surfing usa’, more sound layering, and guitar
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What was the British invasion?

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  • mid sixties era, british bands invade US in popularity
  • they are influenced by african american RR, RB
  • occrued from culture sharing from WW2
  • US sensored the music while Europe embraced it ealrier
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Who was the beatles manager?

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-Brian Epstein

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what were the beatles first era liek

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  • blue collar
  • hard working greesers
  • cover band
30
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what were the second era of the beatles

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  • recreated to be more fragile, innocent
  • began writing songs
  • covers dont make money, recordings do
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What was beatles mani

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  • craze over the beatles in the mid sixties
  • primarily a studie band
  • changed how recording are, from a set of sinlges to a collaberative expression or topic
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who were the beatles signed to

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-EMI and Sir George Martin

33
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who sang ‘hard days night’

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  • depicts beatles mania
  • borrows from chuck berrys guitatr
  • AABA brill building style
34
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who sang ‘yesterday’

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  • beatles
  • more serious, melotonic song
  • appeals to adult issues and the older generations
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who sang ‘ tomorrow never knows’

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  • beatles
  • 1965, headphones released, beateles experimenting with drugs
  • tries to emulate the emotions caused by the drugs with music
  • depressed vocals, reveresed and sped up tapes of string insturments
  • lyrics from ancient spirituality such as budisim
  • sitar instrument
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who sang a ‘a day in the life’

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  • beatles
  • more progressive RR
  • large orchestral background
  • longer piano chord
37
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who were the rolling stones

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  • began as a cover band like bealtes
  • unlike beatles, embraced the dirty, RR culture right away
  • was a tour band rather than a studio band
38
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what is the most famous rolling stones song?

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  • can get no satisfaction
  • blue collar reaction to capitalism
  • relating to revolution, unsatisfied people
39
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what is soul music

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  • rebranding of black RB music,
  • not supposed to smooth, more raw
  • strong connection to gospal
  • criticzed by gospal fans because its no longer sacred music
  • celebration of souther african american asthetics
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who was ray charles

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  • bind soul musician

- fused RB and gospal

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who sang ‘i got a women’

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  • ray charles
  • unlike gospal, replaced sing and respond vocals with horns
  • replaced sacred gospal with sex appeal RB
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who sang ‘what id say’

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  • ray charles with gospal features
  • tamberinec continues through the song
  • sing and respond vocals
  • singing in ecstacy
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who was sam cook?

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  • popular gospal musician
  • when shifted to soul, large backlash
  • king of soul and popular during the civil rights era
44
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who sang ‘you send me’

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  • sam cook (king of soul)

- AABA format (tin pan alley)

45
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who sang ‘change gonna come’

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  • sam cook
  • became anthem for civil rights protests in the fifties
  • vague and talk to many different issues (timeless)
  • triple meter from gospal
46
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Who was james brown

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  • godfather of soul
  • sings about pride and determinatino
  • in favour of black power
  • horns should behave like percussion
  • base carries melody
47
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who sings ‘papa got a brand new bag’

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  • james brown
  • base plays meloy
  • other instrument play rythem
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who was artha franklin?

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  • began as a jazz artist in 1960 with Columbia records and later signs with Atlantic records
  • in ‘respect’, has an afro as a representative of black power
  • ‘respect’ follows music pitch going up and down as a gospal feature
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how was folk music revived?

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  • not about making money but about the message
  • during the great depression music was critical of inequality and capitalism
  • typically white, college educated, liberal leaning
50
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who sings “this land is your land”

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  • woodie Guthrie
  • calmer, aucostic,
  • focus is on the lyrics and the meaning of them
51
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Who was bob dylan

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  • also known as Robert Zimmerman
  • based his image of Woodie Guthrie
  • must culturally significant singer of the 1960s
  • when tries to go electirc with band at the newport fold festival people boo him
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who sings ‘pawn in the game’

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  • bob dylan
  • about the system/government
  • how people acts out racism and segretation that is created by systematically
  • very raw, guitar has different paces, almost catching up to the lyrics
53
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who sings ‘like a rolling stone’

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  • bob dylan

- about the establishment and class differences and their attitudes

54
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what are the contribution from folk music?

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  • not just for fun, can create change
  • cultural and political messages
  • can mobilize and organize
55
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What is the counter culutre?

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  • late 60s/70s hippies
  • fed up with all the bullshit
  • didnt want to work
  • activists and resist government
56
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what was haight ashbury

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  • hippy neighborhood in Sanfransisco
  • created a counterculture community
  • many bands emerged out of the community such as Janice Joplin, jefferson airplane
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who sings “white rabbit’?

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  • jefferson airplane
  • static instruments give hippnotizing effect
  • music video particually breaking for its use of projecting of melting cnadles giving acid effect