MUNM-287 Part 2 Exam QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS RATED A+
Rock 'n' Roll - correct answer ✔✔What was the first form of popular culture to celebrate
characteristics of city life?
It's primary roots were in black culture - correct answer ✔✔There was a great deal of resistance
to rock 'n' roll particularly in the American South. Why?
Talcott Parsons - correct answer ✔✔This American sociologists established the sociology
department at Harvard University. His work was enormously influential through the 1950s and
well into the 1960s.
The Grand Theory - correct answer ✔✔Talcott Parsons advocated a new approach to studying
popular culture, encompassing not only sociology but also all the social sciences. This new
approach was called:
Three Stages - correct answer ✔✔The theory of African-American culture assimilation (the
process by which a minority group achieves social acceptance) contained stages. How many
stages were there?
Cover Version - correct answer ✔✔The process of taking a song or style from the black culture
and reproducing it using a white singer is known as a:
Determined resistance to the status quo - correct answer ✔✔Audiences of the mid-fifties forced
the music industry to provide an alternative to the bland music on the radio by using this
method:
, Trivial-Novelty - correct answer ✔✔Charlie Gillett identified three modes of expression in poplar
music. They were sentimental, melodramatic, and:
Nat King Cole and Chuck Berry - correct answer ✔✔Black singers learned to adopt styles that
were specially developed for the white audience. Two of the best at this technique were:
The Crew Cuts - correct answer ✔✔An example of a cover version was the song Sh-Boom which
was recorded by both the Chords and:
Rock 'n' Roll - correct answer ✔✔Of the three classifications of music -- Rock 'n' Roll, Rock and
Roll, and Rock -- which is defined as the particular kind of music to which the term was first
applied?
Rock - correct answer ✔✔All post-1964 derivations of rock 'n' roll were known as:
Crazy Man Crazy - correct answer ✔✔This song by Bill Haley and His Comets was the first rock
'n' roll song to make the best-selling lists on Billboard's national chart.
Sex - correct answer ✔✔The phrases "rock" and "rock and roll" were rhythm and blues
euphemisms for this:
Show Tunes - correct answer ✔✔Up until the end of the 1930's the vast majority of recorded
music was or sounded like:
ASCAP and BMI - correct answer ✔✔The two major licensing agents in music are:
Six - correct answer ✔✔How many major recording companies dominated the popular music
market prior to rock and roll?
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS RATED A+
Rock 'n' Roll - correct answer ✔✔What was the first form of popular culture to celebrate
characteristics of city life?
It's primary roots were in black culture - correct answer ✔✔There was a great deal of resistance
to rock 'n' roll particularly in the American South. Why?
Talcott Parsons - correct answer ✔✔This American sociologists established the sociology
department at Harvard University. His work was enormously influential through the 1950s and
well into the 1960s.
The Grand Theory - correct answer ✔✔Talcott Parsons advocated a new approach to studying
popular culture, encompassing not only sociology but also all the social sciences. This new
approach was called:
Three Stages - correct answer ✔✔The theory of African-American culture assimilation (the
process by which a minority group achieves social acceptance) contained stages. How many
stages were there?
Cover Version - correct answer ✔✔The process of taking a song or style from the black culture
and reproducing it using a white singer is known as a:
Determined resistance to the status quo - correct answer ✔✔Audiences of the mid-fifties forced
the music industry to provide an alternative to the bland music on the radio by using this
method:
, Trivial-Novelty - correct answer ✔✔Charlie Gillett identified three modes of expression in poplar
music. They were sentimental, melodramatic, and:
Nat King Cole and Chuck Berry - correct answer ✔✔Black singers learned to adopt styles that
were specially developed for the white audience. Two of the best at this technique were:
The Crew Cuts - correct answer ✔✔An example of a cover version was the song Sh-Boom which
was recorded by both the Chords and:
Rock 'n' Roll - correct answer ✔✔Of the three classifications of music -- Rock 'n' Roll, Rock and
Roll, and Rock -- which is defined as the particular kind of music to which the term was first
applied?
Rock - correct answer ✔✔All post-1964 derivations of rock 'n' roll were known as:
Crazy Man Crazy - correct answer ✔✔This song by Bill Haley and His Comets was the first rock
'n' roll song to make the best-selling lists on Billboard's national chart.
Sex - correct answer ✔✔The phrases "rock" and "rock and roll" were rhythm and blues
euphemisms for this:
Show Tunes - correct answer ✔✔Up until the end of the 1930's the vast majority of recorded
music was or sounded like:
ASCAP and BMI - correct answer ✔✔The two major licensing agents in music are:
Six - correct answer ✔✔How many major recording companies dominated the popular music
market prior to rock and roll?
