Post Midterm

Front 1

Select the answer that correctly fills in the blanks. According to Hebdige, critics of Afro American and Caribbean music say there is too much stress on _____ and not enough “______.”

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repetition and originality

Front 2

What does Hebdige say is at the heart of all Afro American and Caribbean musics?

Back 2

Versioning

Front 3

According to Hebdige, a dub version is where

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the rhythm is shaken out and played with

Front 4

How many versions were there of the song ''Selng Teng'' by 1985?

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239

Front 5

Name three producers mentioned by Williams

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Lee Perry, Ruby King, King Tubby

Front 6

According to Williams one of the major principles of dub is the

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The denial of the right of the musician to control their output

Front 7

Which innovation was called “the most interesting new abstract concept to appear in modern music since Ornette Coleman undermined the dictatorship of Western harmony”?

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dub

Front 8

Which of the following does NOT describe dub

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centered around the vocal melody

Front 9

According to Williams, what was the album cover for King Tubby Meets the Upsetter missing?

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humans

Front 10

Bluebeat was the name Jamaicans used for American blues (T/F)

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False

Front 11

Bob Marley refused to let Chris Blackwell put out his first single, “Judge Not” (T/F)

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False

Front 12

Catch a Fire was the first reggae record conceived of as an album (T/F)

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True

Front 13

Bob Marley’s first commercial breakthrough was 1976’s Rastaman Vibration (T/F)

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True

Front 14

Chris Blackwell marketed early Jamaican music as ska in England (T/F)

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True

Front 15

Chris Blackwell remixed some tracks on Catch a Fire to add guitar (T/F)

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True

Front 16

Chris Blackwell successfully marketed reggae as a novelty music to a rock audience (T/F)

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False

Front 17

Island Records was instrumental in the invention of the concept of world music (T/F)

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True

Front 18

Island Records was the first label to apply the same artistic standards to reggae as had been customary for rock (T/F)

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True

Front 19

Chris Blackwell rescued reggae from the ghetto (T/F)

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True

Front 20

The main place Jamaicans heard local records was on the radio (T/F)

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False

Front 21

Rastaman Vibration was a conscious attempt to sell records to black America (T/F)

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True

Front 22

Disco first began

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Black and gay communities

Front 23

Which city is associated with the birth of disco?

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New York

Front 24

What does Gloria Gaynor say whites had trouble doing?

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Dance to sophisticated R&B rhythms

Front 25

According to Gloria Gaynor what did disco allow whites to do?

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dance like blacks

Front 26

How did Tom Petty react to disco?

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He wanted to destroy disco

Front 27

What, according to Covach and Flory, was behind the “disco sucks” attitude of rockers?

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disco was opposite to the hippie aesthetic

Front 28

What according to Gloria Gaynor, did disco allow white people to do?

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Dance to a simplified form of black music

Front 29

What was the record company’s response to DEVO when the band wanted to make a video for “Whip It”?

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they said “absolutely not”

Front 30

DEVO fits into new wave because their video for “Whip It”

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portrayed iron and satire of corporate america

Front 31

Which all girl band opened for the Police and beat them in the charts?

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the Go-Gos

Front 32

Why did MTV censor Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” video?

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it had black people dressed as minstrels

Front 33

Which Madonna video enraged MTV execs?

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justify my love

Front 34

Brian Eno said that Madonna’s critics didn’t like the fact that

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music was not the centre, it was part of the Madonna package

Front 35

Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, said that the “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” video was inspired by

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Salvador dali

Front 36

Why doesn’t Phil Collins think he could have made it in the music business had he started in the MTV age?

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he was chubby and balding

Front 37

Which MTV initiative did David Bowie say instigated social change

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rock the vote

Front 38

Ronald Reagan cited which rock artist in his patriotic speech?

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bruce springsteen

Front 39

MTV didn’t realize the Clash’s filmmaker, Don Letts, was black? (T/F)

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True

Front 40

The MTV representative in the documentary says that MTV was playing about the same number of videos from both white and black artists? (T/F)

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True

Front 41

According to Public Enemy’s Chuck D, having Michael Jackson on MTV in the 1980s came at the right time for black America? (T/F)

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False

Front 42

“Justify My Love” is no more risqué than average American popular culture? (T/F)

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False

Front 43

American feminism is rife with puritan values? (T/F)

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True

Front 44

Feminists envy masculinity? (T/F)

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False

Front 45

Feminists have hated Madonna from the start? (T/F)

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True

Front 46

MTV was right to ban “Justify My Love”? (T/F)

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True

Front 47

Underneath the shock factor Madonna’s music reveals puritan values? (T/F)

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False

Front 48

Feminism says “we are nothing but masks” but Madonna attempts to show us what is behind the mask? (T/F)

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False

Front 49

Both new wave and new traditionalism appropriated earlier styles of rock ironically? (T/F)

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False

Front 50

New traditionalism appropriated earlier styles of rock sincerely, not ironically? (T/F)

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True

Front 51

New traditionalism was concerned with creating a pastiche of earlier, pre-hippy styles? (T/F)

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False

Front 52

Both new traditionalism and punk wanted to celebrate pre 1965 styles of rock? (T/F)

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True

Front 53

Frith says that in the first week of his Live LP release, Springsteen

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earned $7.5 million

Front 54

Springsteen’s Live LP became

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the ultimate object of capitalist fantasy

Front 55

Springsteen’s disdain for success

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is what makes him successful

Front 56

According to Frith, Springsteen’s Live LP, “the most successful pop commodity of the moment,” stands for the principle that

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music should not be a commodity

Front 57

If Bruce Springsteen didn’t exist, American rock critics would…

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critics would invent him

Front 58

At a time when rock is the soundtrack for TV commercials, tours benefit from corporate sponsorship, and music videos have blurred the lines between creativity and commerciality, Springsteen suggests that rock music

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gives people a way to define themselves against corporate logic

Front 59

According to rock critics, Springsteen is part of a musical legacy that stretches back to

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woody Guthrie

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In order to understand authenticity, it needs to be defined against

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artifice

Front 61

To be authentic and to sound authentic in the rock context is

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the same thing

Front 62

The idea that art and commercialism are opposites starts in Europe with a movement known as

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romanticism

Front 63

Which rap record was the first to hit number one on the pop album chart?

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Licensed to Ill

Front 64

“Break spinning” is best described as:

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mixing together highly rhythmic instrumental passages using two turntables

Front 65

The repeating of a drum break taken from the middle of a record is called what?

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a break beat

Front 66

Quincy Jones said that rap had a problem with

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TV and even black radio

Front 67

In the video KRS One says that “the black community had nothing to represent themselves. Everything was somebody else’s expression of reality. We were forced to take that, mutilate it and give it back as our expression.” Ideologically this statement demonstrates which of our course concepts?

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Versioning

Front 68

Grandmaster Flash describes his theory of the quick mix. What is the quick mix?

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Repeating the same section of a song using two turntables

Front 69

Sociologist Deena Weinstein says that any way you cut it, metal’s performance of masculinity is sexist. (T/F)

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False

Front 70

Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider says that wearing lingerie made him question his sexuality. (T/F)

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False

Front 71

Poison, an all male band, told their photographer that they wanted to look like the women on the cover of fashion magazines. (T/F)

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True

Front 72

Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider hoped by wearing lingerie he could freak people out. (T/F)

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True

Front 73

Eddie Van Halen and Bach are compared because both are/were

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improvisers

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Why do the models of violin and organ become relevant to the guitar?

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Because notes can be sustained using amplification and feedback

Front 75

The technological revolution has created internet sites like YouTube where youth can view heavy metal for free. (T/F)

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False

Front 76

Heavy metal arose in England as a form of counter-cultural rebellion. (T/F)

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True

Front 77

Defenders of heavy metal say that its themes are purely fantasy. (T/F)

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False

Front 78

W.A.S.P. stands for “We are Sexual Predators” (T/F)

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True

Front 79

W.A.S.P’s concerts featured simulated orgies with groupies. (T/F)

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False

Front 80

According to Blackie Lawless the worst thing that can happen to any rock ‘n’ roller is to get censored. (T/F)

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False

Front 81

The idea that music has the power to shape society is traced back to Greek philosopher Plato. (T/F)

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True

Front 82

One of heavy metal’s central themes is hatred. (T/F)

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True

Front 83

Teen violence has been linked to listening to heavy metal. (T/F)

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True

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Tipper Gore admits to having played metal in her teenage years. (T/F)

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False