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Communications (Music Unit)
History Of Music
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English
12th Grade
11/20/2009

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Term
What began printing the most popular songs and best selling sheet music on 1913?
Definition

The Billboard Charts

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Term
What is the primary product of popular music and the industry is dominated by music publishing houses?
Definition
Sheet Music
Term
What was the first founded talent agency in Chicago?
Definition
Music Corporation of America (MCA)
Term
What is it called when you can download music over the internet for free?
Definition
File Sharing
Term
What are the two kinds of distributors?
Definition

Independants

and

Branches

Term
What was the structure around a repetitive and a responsive pattern called?
Definition
Early Blues
Term
Who's song was the first blues song to become a nationwide hit?
Definition

Mammie Smith

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Term
What was the first rock and roll record?
Definition
Rocket 88
Term
What offered the most popular and best selling songs of the week?
Definition
Hit Parade
Term
What were the 3 forms of records?
Definition

33 rpm

78

45

Term
Who founded Motown records in Detroit as an outlet for black soul and rock?
Definition

Berry Gordy

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Term
Who Organized the first rock and roll concert?
Definition

Alan Freed

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Term
Where did the hippies begin in San Francisco?
Definition
Haight Ashbury
Term
Who is considered to be he founders of country music?
Definition

Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family

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Term
What was the first radio station?
Definition
Grand Ole Oprey
Term
What was one of the most important country shows?
Definition
Grand Ole Oprey
Term
Who was the godfather of hip hop?
Definition

DJ Kool Herc (chile Hercules Cambell)

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Term
Out of the levels of responsibility what develops and coordinates talent?
Definition
Artists and repertoire
Term
What was the music festival in 1969?
Definition

Woodstock

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Term
What type of music was Benny Goodman and the Basie Band leaders of?
Definition
Swing
Term
What does the word Phonograph mean?
Definition
Sound Writer
Term
Who invented the phonograph n 187?
Definition
Thomas Edison
Term
What is the term meaning "Dirt" or "Filth"?
Definition
Grunge
Term
What was the first Gangsta rap album to sell 2.5 million copies?
Definition

NWA Straight outta Compton

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Term
How long did recordings on records last?
Definition
3 minutes
Term
Who created the tape recorder?
Definition
The Nazis
Term
What show featured Elvis, the Doors and the Beatles?
Definition

The Ed Sullivan Show

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Term
What did the phonograph use to record and play back sound?
Definition
A Cylinder
Term
What refers to the summer of 1967 where 100,000 young people converged? 
Definition
The Summer of Love
Term
What is the most important section?
Definition
Promotion
Term
Who handles the bills?
Definition
Administration
Term
What was the first rock and roll song used in a movie to hit #1?
Definition
Back around the clock
Term
What destroyed the music industry in 1929?
Definition
The Great Depression
Term
What was the mass manufactured in 1927 and brought into restaurants and night clubs?
Definition

Jukebox

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Term
What is the area where music becomes big business and publishers rent officers around union square in NYC?
Definition
Tin Pan Alley
Term
Who built the first electric instrument called the Telharmonium?
Definition

Thaddeus Cahill

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Term
Who slowed the turntable down and added grooves to records?
Definition

Peter Goldmark

 

 

Term
What was the film company that opens a recording business to sell their movie soundtrack?
Definition

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

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Term
Who developed the gramophone?
Definition

Emile Berliner

 

Term
What type of record did Peter Goldmark make?
Definition
Long Playing (LP) Record
Term
What was characterized as improvisation?
Definition
Jazz
Term
What was created in Buenos Aires that began the most modern form of dance music?
Definition
The Tango
Term
What is the main measurement of popular music?
Definition
Billboard
Term
Who used the term surfing to describe his instrumental music?
Definition
Dick Dale
Term
Who hit the carts with La Bamba which was the first all Latin music song to become popular?
Definition

Ritchie Valens

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Term
What was the first major music company not based in NY?
Definition
Capital Records
Term
Who created Napster?
Definition
Shawn Fanning
Term
What was built on Motown?
Definition
Funk
Term
In 1961 - 1971 ______ had 110 top ten hits?
Definition
Motown
Term
What is the style of soul music with a distint pop influence?
Definition
Motown Sound
Term
What was the visual jukebox in the 1940s
Definition
Panoram
Term
Who blended jazz, blues, and rock to create soul music?
Definition

Ray Charles

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