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| The fastest-rising radio format of the 1970s, playing the music of Journey, REO Speedwagon, Boston, Foreigner, and Styx was called? |
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| Who was the British act that relocated to California, changed personnel and released an album that was in the top position of the billboard charts for 31 weeks? |
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| The Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Diamond records usually fall into what musical category? |
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| Which MOR format act had their first chart hit with a newer version of Bacharach and David's "Close to You"? |
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| Which 2 people teamed up to compose the musicals "Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Evita"? |
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| Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber |
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| Middle of the road. Pop music for adults |
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| What artist sold the most hit singles in the 1970s? |
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| During what year did the Jackson Five have four U.S. Number one hit singles? |
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| When did the Jackson Five sign to Motown? |
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| What was Motown's last super-group? |
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| Which artist gainded control over his recording projects during a contract renewal, and released 2 albums in 1972 that resulted in 5 grammy award wins? |
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| What Motown artist broke from the label's traditional use of Pro-songwriters and producers , and self-produced a record reflecting life and hope in the black community against Berry Gordy's advice? |
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| What event initiated a more focused, sober realism in R&B and soul music in the late 1960s and early 1970s? |
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| Martin Luther King's Assasination |
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| What singer repeatedly hit the 1970s soul charts with smoothly arranged string and horn driven tracks, and became a minister in his own Memphis church while still cutting soul records? |
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| Which soul artist was in a group that openly sang about civil rights in the 1960s, and became a hit solo artist when he defined the morality of a Chicago drug dealer in a movie soundtrack? |
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| What R&B Philadelphia production team wrote songs with a straight, danceable beat; lush arrangements; and catchy, soulful singing for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, and others that would become popular in New York Clubs as the signature disco sound? |
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| Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff |
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| Who revolutionized dance venues by using music to create a meditative environment, rather than a vehicle for selling alcohol? |
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| What musical trend originated the commercially released 12-inch single, making room for extended mixes that included instrumental breaks? |
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| Which producer brought Donna Summer to the U.S. Top 10 with a dance track that heavily employed synthesizers, creating the signature Euro-disco sound? |
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| Which club's theme parties and celebrity focus made going to a disco a media/fashion event, rather than a musical event in 1977? |
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| What movie inspired the disco craze that swept the nation in 1977? |
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| What year was George Clinton's DooWop group, The Parliaments, founded? |
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What artist and producer's own hard funk acts started to have chart hits after incorporating members of James
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| Which 2 artists performed AfroCentric poetry on records--and important 1960s and 70s precursor to the social themes in rap music? |
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| Last Poets and Gil Scott Heron |
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| Who added poetry to jazz and soul, creating the protest masterpiece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"? |
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| What New York City neighborhood became the main home for Puerto Ricans settling in the U.S., and spawned a musical fusion of funk, soul, and rock with Latin sounds? |
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| What Record label, begun by Johnny Pacheco and Jerry Masucci in 1964, recorded New York salsa musicians such as Ruben Blades, Willie Coon, and Eddie Palmeri? |
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| Which Jamaican pop style directly replaced ska when artists slowed down the tempos, and singers were able to croon over more syncopated grooves? |
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| Which producer owned the Downbeat sound system, Studio One Records and was the first to record The Wailers, yielding over 100 of their tracks? |
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| Who started Island Records to produce and sell Jamaican music in Jamaica as well as in the Jamaican communities of England? |
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| To what societal group did the Wailers direct their first Jamaican hit song, "Simmer Down"? |
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| Which combination of vocalists wrote and sang for the Wailers at the time they were first signed to Island Records? |
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| Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley |
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| Which Jamaican engineer recorded the first hit singles by a toasting DJ and made significant engineering and remixing contributions to the dub style? |
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| Who was one of the Wailer's producers and was known as the "Phil Spector of Reggae" due to his wild engineering experiments? |
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| Where did Rap/Hip Hop originate? |
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| Who was the graffiti-ing Jamaican transplant to the South Bronx that introduced the combined concept of DJing repeated "breaks" for the break dancers while MCing through his own party crew? |
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| What Bronx DJ is first credited with repeating the rhythm break section using 2 copies of the same record to facilitate break dance routines? |
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| What DJ is first credited with back-timing and backspinning to repeat-play a section of music without losing the beat? |
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| Which 2 Bronx DJs claim to have invented the scratch techniques? |
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| Grandmaster Flash and Grand wizard Theodore |
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| What German electronic band blended electronic beats with minimalism, becoming the single most important influence on electronic dance music and electro to this day? |
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| What are the commonly noted elements that comprise Hip Hop culture? |
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| DJs, Break dancing, MCs, Graffiti artists |
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| What is the name of the famous NY Bowery bar known to this day for birthing the U.S. punk scene? |
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| Which performing poet act signed to Clive Davis' Arista label after he witnessed a series of concerts at CBGB? |
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| Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage and went on to have 4 number one singles in the U.S. charts? |
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| Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage, hired Brian Eno to produce them, using Eno's influence to incorporate funk and African music to their initial styles? |
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| Which act made their reputation on the CBGB stage and created a music formula that is most identifiable with what is known as punk rock music to this day? |
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| Which act was the first of the punk era bands on the CBGB stage and recorded "Marquee Moon", a record commonly regarded as one of the 10 best rock records of the 70s? |
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| Who was the Sex Pistols manager, who picked up fashion and attitude cues from New York's CBGB bands? |
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| What British punk band opened for the Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK' tour, later finding their American fame culminating in a U.S. top 10 single and a live performance at Shea Stadium? |
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| What was the name of Malcolm McLaren's fashion store in London? |
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| What was the name of the only Sex Pistols album released before the group disbanded? |
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| Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols |
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