MUCO 120 TEST 2 LATEST UPDATED
2025
Who was in folk music? Sang "This Land is Your Land" - Correct Ans-Woodie Guthrie
Who was in the Almanac Singers? - Correct Ans-Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger and
believed in anti-war and anti-racsim
What was the significance of the Highlander Folk School? - Correct Ans-School for civil
rights leaders (Rosa Parks, MLK, Seeger went there)
What movement was Pete Seeger involved in? Who did he sing with? - Correct Ans-
Civil Rights Movement and Bruce Springsteen
Lead Belly's stage name - Correct Ans-Huddie Ledbetter
Who recorded thousands of folk songs for library of congress? - Correct Ans-Alan
Lomax (John Lomax was his father)
Greenwich Village: decade, important, who came out of it? - Correct Ans-1960s, central
music venues for folk music, Bob Dylan
What kind of singer was Bob Dylan? - Correct Ans-protest, ballad, and singer song-
writer
Who did Joan Baez sing with? - Correct Ans-Bob Dylan
Who's band played for rockabilly Ronnie Hawkins? - Correct Ans-Bob Dylan
What were Peter, Paul, and Mary known for? - Correct Ans-Being protest singers and
did a cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin in the Wind"
Who was at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival? - Correct Ans-Peter, Paul, and Mary; Joan
Baez, Bob Dylan, the Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel
What band brought Folk Rock and Country Rock to life? - Correct Ans-The Byrds
Who was another response to the British invasion - Correct Ans-Buffalo Springfield
Ray Charles - Correct Ans-The Genius of Soul
Gritty sound
piano, jazzy/blues
Preaching vocal style, gospel style
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Influenced by country music
James Brown - Correct Ans-The Godfather of Soul and funk
Early sang in "the flames" - 1950's
Invents "funk"
Sam Cooke - Correct Ans-Sweet Soul
Gospel artist that switched over to the Pop charts
Influenced by doowop, and Bob Dylan
Where did Motown start? - Correct Ans-Detroit
Berry Gordy - Correct Ans-Founded Motown records in Detroit
Used Brill Building practices to create hits for artists
sounded "white"
Who was in charge of the Motown Finishing School? - Correct Ans-Maxine Powell
Choreographer of Motown - Correct Ans-"Cholly" Atkins
Back up band for Motown - Correct Ans-The Funk Brothers
Songwriters of Motown - Correct Ans-Holland Dozier and Holland (H-D-H)
Two Biggest Girl Groups in Motown - Correct Ans-Martha and the Vandellas and Diana
Ross and the Supremes
The Tempations - Correct Ans-very cookie-cutter with choreography
David Ruffin was lead singer
David Ruffin - Correct Ans-Temptations, vain, died of cocaine overdose
Who was one of the last Motown groups? (MJ came out of it) - Correct Ans-The
Jackson Five
Where was John Myers from? - Correct Ans-Knoxville
Who founded STAX records? - Correct Ans-Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton
Where was the location of STAX records? - Correct Ans-Memphis (also teamed with
Atlantic records)
back up band for STAX - Correct Ans-Booker T and the MGs
Who came out of STAX and died in plane crash? - Correct Ans-Otis Redding
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