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HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL EXAM 1
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QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIEDANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+|| BRAND NEW!!
,Define Rock and Roll - ANS
Analytically - ANS Characteristic music features
Instrumentation - ANS electric guitar/ bass/ drums
Rhythm - ANS Driving, moderately syncopated 4/4 beat
Melody - ANS largely pentatonic, with blues/sole inflections
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Texture - ANS lead vocal accompanied by instrumental and (occasional) vocal harmonies
Harmony - ANS simple triads ("power cords" often based on 1st, 4th, and 5th degrees of scale
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Historical background of Rock and Roll - ANS evolutionary development of rock and roll:
Popular-music form bleeding of rhythm and blues, folk, gospel, and country.
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Origins in African American traditions; cross over to mainstream pop-mass market.
Socially Culturally: Performative Context - ANS -Mass mediated thru recordings and networks
of clubs, radio stations, TV programs etc.
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- Strongly associated with youth cultures and generational identity.
-Connotations of transgressive or counter-cultural adolescent rebellion
Ethnicity vs. Race - ANS Cultural-Genealogical background vs. ascribed social role based on
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skin color
Sex vs. Gender - ANS Biologically based reproductive role vs. socially constructed sexual
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identity.
Wealthy vs. Class - ANS Accumulation of property/ goods vs. inherited socio-economic status
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Age vs. Generation - ANS Chronological length of life vs. age short united by temporally
shared experience
Culture - ANS -Totality of learned behaviors, acquired cognitive structures and physical
artifacts. Ex. Customs, habits, beliefs, values, attitudes, and other products of human work/
thought
-Way of life that organizes social experiences and shapes identities of individuals and binds
them into recognizable groups. Ex. Arts, language, religion etc.
, Ethnicity - ANS Group with shared culture based on ancestral national origin, language, and/or
religion
Race - ANS "A concept that signifies & symbolizes social conflicts & interests by referring to
different types of human bodies" (Omi & Winant)
Concept developed in 18th c attempting to categorize humans into small number of distinct
groups based on shared physical features
Traditionally defined as quasi‐biological category
No longer considered valid concept for categorization due to the shared ancestry of so
many supposedly separate "races"
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Not scientific or absolute category as originally claimed
Sex - ANS Biological category based on genetic inheritance, with characteristics physical
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expressions and behavior predisposition. -in born
Gender - ANS "A concept that signifies & symbolizes social conflicts & interests by referring to
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different types of human bodies" (Omi & Winant)
Socio‐cultural categorization defined by meanings given to biological differences between
sexes
varies dramatically across societies and throughout human history
gender roles: social skills, abilities, & behaviors considered appropriate to
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members of a society depending upon their sex.
Not necessarily restricted to binary categorization (male vs. female), but rather understood as
culturally specific construction of social roles
learned, not in‐born
Wealth - ANS Material basis pf prosperity consisting in abundance (of lack) of socially valuable
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property, possessions, and goods.
Class - ANS Demographic division, stratum, or rank defined by persistent, shared socio
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economic status. Ex. Shared factors like preside, power, or culture/
-Often understood in relation to industrial means of productions
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ex. Factory owner (capitalist) vs. Factory worker (proletariat)
Age - ANS Length of time an individual as lived (lifespan)
Generation - ANS Birth cohort of age group of individuals born/living in sam time period with
socially recognized collective identity.
Collective cultural or political identities formed by common experience of historical events.
Before the Rise of Rock and Roll: What was the business model based on? - ANS Sales of
Sheet Music
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YC
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HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL EXAM 1
ST
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIEDANSWERS)
ALREADY GRADED A+|| BRAND NEW!!
,Define Rock and Roll - ANS
Analytically - ANS Characteristic music features
Instrumentation - ANS electric guitar/ bass/ drums
Rhythm - ANS Driving, moderately syncopated 4/4 beat
Melody - ANS largely pentatonic, with blues/sole inflections
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Texture - ANS lead vocal accompanied by instrumental and (occasional) vocal harmonies
Harmony - ANS simple triads ("power cords" often based on 1st, 4th, and 5th degrees of scale
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Historical background of Rock and Roll - ANS evolutionary development of rock and roll:
Popular-music form bleeding of rhythm and blues, folk, gospel, and country.
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Origins in African American traditions; cross over to mainstream pop-mass market.
Socially Culturally: Performative Context - ANS -Mass mediated thru recordings and networks
of clubs, radio stations, TV programs etc.
YC
- Strongly associated with youth cultures and generational identity.
-Connotations of transgressive or counter-cultural adolescent rebellion
Ethnicity vs. Race - ANS Cultural-Genealogical background vs. ascribed social role based on
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skin color
Sex vs. Gender - ANS Biologically based reproductive role vs. socially constructed sexual
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identity.
Wealthy vs. Class - ANS Accumulation of property/ goods vs. inherited socio-economic status
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Age vs. Generation - ANS Chronological length of life vs. age short united by temporally
shared experience
Culture - ANS -Totality of learned behaviors, acquired cognitive structures and physical
artifacts. Ex. Customs, habits, beliefs, values, attitudes, and other products of human work/
thought
-Way of life that organizes social experiences and shapes identities of individuals and binds
them into recognizable groups. Ex. Arts, language, religion etc.
, Ethnicity - ANS Group with shared culture based on ancestral national origin, language, and/or
religion
Race - ANS "A concept that signifies & symbolizes social conflicts & interests by referring to
different types of human bodies" (Omi & Winant)
Concept developed in 18th c attempting to categorize humans into small number of distinct
groups based on shared physical features
Traditionally defined as quasi‐biological category
No longer considered valid concept for categorization due to the shared ancestry of so
many supposedly separate "races"
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Not scientific or absolute category as originally claimed
Sex - ANS Biological category based on genetic inheritance, with characteristics physical
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expressions and behavior predisposition. -in born
Gender - ANS "A concept that signifies & symbolizes social conflicts & interests by referring to
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different types of human bodies" (Omi & Winant)
Socio‐cultural categorization defined by meanings given to biological differences between
sexes
varies dramatically across societies and throughout human history
gender roles: social skills, abilities, & behaviors considered appropriate to
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members of a society depending upon their sex.
Not necessarily restricted to binary categorization (male vs. female), but rather understood as
culturally specific construction of social roles
learned, not in‐born
Wealth - ANS Material basis pf prosperity consisting in abundance (of lack) of socially valuable
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property, possessions, and goods.
Class - ANS Demographic division, stratum, or rank defined by persistent, shared socio
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economic status. Ex. Shared factors like preside, power, or culture/
-Often understood in relation to industrial means of productions
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ex. Factory owner (capitalist) vs. Factory worker (proletariat)
Age - ANS Length of time an individual as lived (lifespan)
Generation - ANS Birth cohort of age group of individuals born/living in sam time period with
socially recognized collective identity.
Collective cultural or political identities formed by common experience of historical events.
Before the Rise of Rock and Roll: What was the business model based on? - ANS Sales of
Sheet Music
