MUCO 120 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

MUCO 120 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 Sean thinks that you should always have your phone next to you while watching lectures so that you can look things up - Answers false Sean's primary objective in this class is to help you be better at playing rock trivia games - Answers false Sean loves music but does not play is himself - Answers false, in multiple bands, radio host and concert organizer your scores on all of the quizzes embedded in the videos (like this one) will add up to count as 20% of your final grade - Answers true Sean has provided you with a link called "succeeding in this class" that you should read so that you can be successful in this class - Answers true Sean considers looking at your notes while taking a Unit Quiz to be cheating - Answers false since the weekly lectures (with quizzes) are due by the end of the day each Friday, Sean thinks you should wait until Friday to watch all of them - Answers false which of the following are true? - Answers there are 6 unit quizzes and the lowest grade will be dropped, the unit quizzes are worth 50% of your grade, the late policy will deduct 10% for each day something is late without a documented excuse Rolling stone magazine doesn't consider "like a rolling stone" by Bob Dylan to be rock - Answers false though most people would call "get up for the downstroke" by Parliament funk, it is related to rock and funk has influenced rock, so we will study it in this class - Answers true Lucinda Williams has won Grammy awards in country, folk, and rock categories - Answers true all of the music that we study in this class has placed on the charts and sold many copies - Answers false the small vinyl records with a big hole in the middle were called 45s because they cost 45 cents - Answers false, 45s were the beginning of the record creations the video for OutKast's "Hey Ya" was a spoof on early MTV videos - Answers false, it was a mocumentary but not for MTV "video killed the radio star" was the first video played on MTV - Answers true Wilco's album "yankee hotel foxtrot" saw them return to their alternative country roots - Answers false, more funk like w some psychedelic like has happened to many rock artists, Elvis Costello got in trouble for playing a song that the network told him not to play on live TV - Answers true the loudness wars are related to reverb - Answers false, related to over compression the "Tennessee waltz" has 3 beats per measure - Answers true meters with an uneven number of beats in each measure (such as 5, 7, and 11) are uncommon - Answers true in rock, the most common metrical feel is a quadruple meter with the accent on the 1 and the 3 - Answers false, accent is on the 2 and the 4 the term for the interval between 2 adjacent notes is a whole step - Answers false, it's a half step the difference between a major and a minor scale is that they have different tonal centers - Answers false blues scales are only used in the blues - Answers false the banjo has its roots in africa - Answers true British ballads, even as they were sung in America, were traditionally accompanied by guitar - Answers false, typically accompanies by fiddle for decades, the fiddle was the most common rural American instrument - Answers true call and response is always between 2 singers - Answers false, can be between audience members as well the backbeat is an example of rhythmic syncopation - Answers true along with sentimental ballads like the one that you are listening to, blackface minstrel songs were also an important part of the early sheet music industry - Answers true Irving Berlin was a tin alley pop singer - Answers false Robert Johnson was called the king of the Chicago blues - Answers false, he was called the king of the delta blues Howard "louie Bluie" Armstrong was from Nashville, TN - Answers false, he was from LaFollette When the members of the Tennessee Chocolate Drops moved to Chicago, they found that record labels only wanted them to record the blues and not styles associated with white performers - e.g. country and pop. There have always been black artists that played "white" styles and white artists that played "black" styles. The record companies were more willing to accept this from white artists - e.g. pay attention to the Jimmie Rodgers story at the end of this lecture. But ultimately, it is part of why the distinction between "black" and "white" styles ever developed. The truth is much more complicated. This is true, so put true and you'll get credit for this one. - Answers true this song is a 12-bar blues even though it doesn't have any lyrics (west end blues) - Answers true on which of the following songs did we hear Louis Armstrong play? - Answers west end blues, waitin for a train, st Louis blues the first guitar that Sean played in the video was a fender telecaster - Answers false, it was a Gibson les Paul The terms rock and roll come from black slang for dancing and partying in general and sex in particular. They were terms that showed up in blues and rhythm and blues songs. Alan Freed took these words and coined the term rock 'n roll to describe the new music that was being born out of rhythm and blues. This is true. Put true and you will get credit for this question. - Answers true the major record labels were early champions of black music and rock 'n roll - Answers false Doo Wop provided a safer entree into the world of black music for white teenagers than some other blues-based styles due to its "safer" lyrical content and smoother musical style. - Answers true the cover phenomenon of the 1950s involved white artists remaking or "covering" songs by black artists - Answers true Both "Crazy Man Crazy" and "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his band were important to the birth of rock 'n roll in ways that make some say that each was the first important rock 'n roll song. - Answers true like doo top, fats domino provided a safe entree into the world of black music for white teenagers - Answers true little Richard was happy that pat Boone covered his song tutti frutti - Answers false When some people heard Chuck Berry on the radio, they thought he was white due to the twang in his voice and the country elements in his music. - Answers true like muddy waters and chuck berry, bo Diddley recorded at chess records - Answers true elvis was originally from mississippi - Answers true when some people first heard Elvis early singles on sun records, they thought he was black because of how he sang - Answers true when rca first signed Elvis, they marketed him as a country and western artist - Answers true some people considered Elvis to be vulgar entertainment - Answers true the rock critic who I quote in the last section of the video is greil marcus - Answers false Carl Perkins had his biggest hit with a cover of Elvis Presley's "blue suede shoes" - Answers false, carl wrote it, Elvis made it famous elvis presley, carl Perkins, jerry lee lewis and Johnny cash, all recorded on sun records - Answers true wanda jackson was marketed as the "female Elvis" - Answers false, it was Janis Martin along with writing hit songs for the Everly brothers and others, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant wrote "rocky top" - Answers true buddy holly died of a drug related causes at the end of the 50s - Answers false, he died in a plane crash payola is a system where radio stations pay artists in order to play their music - Answers false payola was invented in the era of rock n roll - Answers false Alan freed's career was ruined by the payola scandal - Answers true the promotion of "maybellene" by chuck berry was aided by payola that involved Alan freed - Answers true Leiber and stellar wrote "hound dog" for big mama thornton - Answers true carol king and gerry coffin worked as a successful songwriting team in the brill building and were also a married couple - Answers true don Kirshner is known for creating the "wall of sound" production technique - Answers false Phil spector married Ronnie Bennett of the ronnettes - Answers true "surfin usa" by The Beach Boys is based on the melody of a chuck berry song - Answers true woody Guthrie felt that Tin Pan Alley pop wasn't for common people and din't speak to their experience. in fact, he wrote "this land is your land" in direct response to Irving Berlin's "god bless America" which he felt to be elitist - Answers true woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger played in a band together - Answers true the highlander folk school, which played a big role in bringing "we shall overcome" to the civil rights movement, is in TN - Answers true lead belly was a straightforward country blues singer who became part of the people's song movement - Answers false