MUSIC 2252: History of Rock 'n' Roll, Midterm 2 Exam Reported Questions Well Answered.

British Invasion - correct answersmid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom, as well as other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States, and significant to the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic. psychedelic musical qualities - correct answers--- skiffle - correct answersa guitar-based, mostly acoustic style that actually fused three strands of American music in this era which we have discussed in earlier chapters: blues, jazz, and folk concept album - correct answersA rock album featuring a cycle of songs expressing a particular theme or idea. Ideas frequently unified by a central narrative or theme, but sometimes just unified by a sense of artistic cohesiveness Sgt. Pepper's (Lonely Hearts Club Band) - correct answersEverything about the record was ambitious, risky, over the top; and it all worked. George Martin, psycho-symphonic effect. Visual presentation of the record, "sweet" versus "salty" band - correct answerssweet inclusive, miniature art works with attractive hooks and a wide variety of influences salty centered more unwaveringly on rock 'n' roll and bluesiness, less on 'pop' sweetness and eclecticism, and reveling in the darker sides of machismo. The Beatles - correct answersBritish Invasion; brilliant and meteoric career; transformed the world of popular music; revealed some of its deepest tensions and contradictions. John Lennon - correct answersGrittier lead vocal; rhythm guitar; English singer-songwriter who co-founded the Beatles Paul McCartney - correct answersSweeter lead vocal; bass guitar; co-founder of the Beatles; later went on to a successful solo career George Martin - correct answersBRILLIANT producer; "5th Beatle"; Understanding of both music and the marketplace for it; essential to Beatles' musical career; classically oriented, formal training as a composer and arranger; made sophisticated, intuitively sensitive interventions in the Beatles' music Rolling Stones - correct answersestablished the true identity of rock, etc; combining musical brilliance and unshakable grounding in 1950s and early 60s rock 'n' roll, blues, and R&B styles; remarkable intuition about the marketing and updating of their image. Mick Jagger - correct answersCo-founder of the Rolling Stones; formed while going to school at the London School of Economics; from middle-class origins; called "one of the most influential front mans of all time"; singer Keith Richards - correct answersCo-founder of the Rolling Stones; formed while going to Art School; lead guitar Beatles effect versus Stones effect - correct answerscontrast in the Rock 'n' Roll style (50's 'rebellious" electric guitar), the relation to pop (pop sensibility versus resistance toward mainstream pop), and the level of diversity (wider versus resistance toward other influences) Bubblegum Music - correct answersoriginated in the marketing cross-connection between pop songs and chewing gum; expresses the saccharine, child-like vapidity or 'bad taste' of the genre The Monkees - correct answersDavy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith; essential punk (anti-)heroes: artificial inventions, clones of the Beatles, created for a situational-comedy TV show, helpless and hopeless pawns of the music industry. Teeny-bop stardom and then got shafted when they began to take themselves seriously. Though not before recording some classic pop songs, concise, straightforward, fun, a 'clean rock band' sound with an attractive vocal style. The Kinks - correct answerscombined blues, R&B, rock 'n' roll, folk, and country influence, Key elements: a commitment to straight-ahead stripped-down music making (beginning with electric mid-60s rock 'n' roll style, but infused with a folk- or country-like simplicity), and a songwriting talent improvisation - correct answersIs it still improv if you improvise the first time but play it the same way every time afterwards? Most of the time, we resolve this issue by just referring to "solos" instead of improvisation, blues rock - correct answersRelates to 50s skiffle, incorporated American acoustic blues traditions; But different because the electric blues could go much further, placing particular emphasis on the 'theater' of individual suffering and achievement and on the 'glory' of instrumental blues soloing. Eric Clapton - correct answersrock & blues singer-songwriter and guitarist; only person to be inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame 3x... Once as a solo-artist, once as a member of Yardbirds, and once as a member of Cream Cream - correct answersFirst power trio in rock history, Combined three hard-driving stars of the London scene; Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker. Their music is steeped in Chicago Blues/Delta Blues styled music. Disbanded, and each of the 3 players went in different directions. Jimmy Page - correct answersJimmy Page of the Yardbirds. formed a new band, with three other musicians, John Bonham (drums), John Paul Jones (bass), and Robert Plant (vocals) they gave up on the name "Yardbirds" and settled on Led Zeppelin Robert Plant - correct answersLead singer and lyricist for Led Zeppelin; iconic figure in rock 'n' roll history; known for trying to accurately capture the nature of Led Zeppelin - correct answersarguably a prototype for all rock 'n' roll after 1970; many trends are thought to have their origins in Zeppelin's style; often thought of THE super-group that eventually eclipsed Cream; pioneered use of huge arenas as venues Jimi Hendrix - correct answersthe 'greatest of all rock guitarists' transcendent figures in pop music. one of his distinctive qualities was left-handed playing. his psychedelic intensity is deeply grounded in the blues psychedelic rock - correct answers New York - correct answerscrucial spawning ground for the Beat movement of the 1950s and the folk revival and girl-group trends of the early 1960s, including such luminaries as Bob Dylan Blood, Sweat, and Tears - correct answersFounded by Al Kooper. A 'superband' formed in 1967 that was intended as a powerhouse on the pop scene, but career was inhibited by changing personnel and other conflicts. Velvet Underground - correct answersThe Velvet Underground was an American rock band from New York City. Formed by Lou Reed, very edgy in the world of pop. Began the era of punk rock. Andy Warhol - correct answersAndy Warhol one of the best-known and most successful artists of the 1960s. Most famous (or notorious) public figures in New York, A master at combining elements of 'high' and 'low' art, of elitist, pop, and industrial culture. His studio called the Factory Lou Reed - correct answersVocalist and guitar for Velvet Underground Michigan - correct answersDetroit -- 'Motor City' -- automobile industry, its large working class, and its large populations of both African and European Americans, hotbed of gutsy street life and music, bringing together garageband, R&B, soul, and blues in a high-energy environment of dance clubs and radio stations MC5 - correct answersformed in Detroit in 1965 performed at the Democratic National Convention in Vietnam-torn 1968. radical political and social idealism, hard left-wing politics and free sex and musical style that raised psychedelic, blues-infused garage-band music to a new level of sheer ecstatic, almost violent mayhem. Iggy Pop and the Stooges - correct answers[James Newell Osterberg], force of nature, formed his band, the Stooges, in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967, with guitarist Ron Asheton on guitar, his brother Scott Asheton on drums, and Dave Alexander on drums Chicago - correct answers'Mecca of the Midwest', economically vibrant, major destination for African American Music, Chicago jazz during th e1920s, electric Chicago blues style of the 1950s. Major center of emergent soul style from the 50s on, with their own 'Chicago sound' and an industry leader, Vee-Jay Records, in nearby Gary, Indiana. Mike Bloomfield - correct answersBorn and raised in Chicago. a session musician already in the early-mid 60s, Bloomfield was a virtuoso blues guitarist, expressive and intense like English players. thick, super-amplified sound, and avoiding also the rich, distorted sound of Chicago players like Muddy Waters Chicago Transit Authority (Chicago) - correct answers(they eventually shortened their name to Chicago). formed in 1967. Put it all together: rock, jazz, blues, soul, folk, pop, psychedelia -- and community and protest. The Byrds - correct answersL.A. band formed in 1964, combined a Dylan-esque folkiness with a Beatles offbeat attractiveness and the twangy passion and loudness of a rock band. San Francisco - correct answersSan Francisco, a capital of the later-60s hippie and music 'revolution,' with some attention to the broader Bay Area that surrounds it, with significant music coming out of Berkeley, Oakland, and Marin County. hippie - correct answers An updating of the phenomenon of the Beat hipster. 'getting it' remained an essential aspect of the hippie crowd, but psychedelic drugs were the new gateway, displacing heroin, speed, alcohol, and other predilections of the 50s generation.