History of Rock and Roll Exam 1
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Define Rock and Roll - ✔✔
Analytically - ✔✔Characteristic music features
Instrumentation - ✔✔electric guitar/ bass/ drums
Rhythm - ✔✔Driving, moderately syncopated 4/4 beat
Melody - ✔✔largely pentatonic, with blues/sole inflections
Texture - ✔✔lead vocal accompanied by instrumental and (occasional)
vocal harmonies
Harmony - ✔✔simple triads ("power cords" often based on 1st, 4th, and 5th
degrees of scale
Historically background of Rock and Roll - ✔✔evolutionary development of
rock and roll: Popular-music form bleeding of rhythm and blues, folk,
gosspel, and country.
,Origins in African American traditions; cross over to mainstream pop-mass
market.
Socially Culturally: Performative Context - ✔✔-Mass mediated thru
recordings and networks of clubs, radio stations, TV programs etc.
- Strongly associated with youth cultures and generational identity.
-Connotations of transgressive or counter-cultural adolescent rebellion
Ethnicity vs. Race - ✔✔Cultural-Genealogical background vs. ascribed
social role based on skin color
Sex vs. Gender - ✔✔Biologically based reproductive role vs. socially
constructed sexual identity.
Wealthy vs. Class - ✔✔Accumulation of property/ goods vs. inherited socio-
economic status
Age vs. Generation - ✔✔Chronological length of life vs. age short united by
temporally shared experience
Culture - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔Group with shared culture based on ancestral national origin,
language, and/or religion
Race - ✔✔"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"
Not scientific or absolute category as originally claimed
Sex - ✔✔Biological category based on genetic inheritance, with
characteristics physical expressions and behavior predisposition. -in born
Gender - ✔✔"A concept that signifies & symbolizes social conflicts &
interests by referring to 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
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 - ✔✔Material basis pf prosperity consisting in abundance (of lack)
of socially valuable property, possessions, and goods.
Class - ✔✔Demographic division, stratum, or rank defined by persistent,
shared socio economic status. Ex. Shared factors like preside, power, or
culture/
-Often understood in relation to industrial means of productions
ex. Factory owner (capitalist) vs. Factory worker (proletariat)
Age - ✔✔Length of time an individual as lived (lifespan)
Generation - ✔✔Birth cohort of age group of individuals born/living in sam
time period with socially recognized collective identity.
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Define Rock and Roll - ✔✔
Analytically - ✔✔Characteristic music features
Instrumentation - ✔✔electric guitar/ bass/ drums
Rhythm - ✔✔Driving, moderately syncopated 4/4 beat
Melody - ✔✔largely pentatonic, with blues/sole inflections
Texture - ✔✔lead vocal accompanied by instrumental and (occasional)
vocal harmonies
Harmony - ✔✔simple triads ("power cords" often based on 1st, 4th, and 5th
degrees of scale
Historically background of Rock and Roll - ✔✔evolutionary development of
rock and roll: Popular-music form bleeding of rhythm and blues, folk,
gosspel, and country.
,Origins in African American traditions; cross over to mainstream pop-mass
market.
Socially Culturally: Performative Context - ✔✔-Mass mediated thru
recordings and networks of clubs, radio stations, TV programs etc.
- Strongly associated with youth cultures and generational identity.
-Connotations of transgressive or counter-cultural adolescent rebellion
Ethnicity vs. Race - ✔✔Cultural-Genealogical background vs. ascribed
social role based on skin color
Sex vs. Gender - ✔✔Biologically based reproductive role vs. socially
constructed sexual identity.
Wealthy vs. Class - ✔✔Accumulation of property/ goods vs. inherited socio-
economic status
Age vs. Generation - ✔✔Chronological length of life vs. age short united by
temporally shared experience
Culture - ✔✔-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 - ✔✔Group with shared culture based on ancestral national origin,
language, and/or religion
Race - ✔✔"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"
Not scientific or absolute category as originally claimed
Sex - ✔✔Biological category based on genetic inheritance, with
characteristics physical expressions and behavior predisposition. -in born
Gender - ✔✔"A concept that signifies & symbolizes social conflicts &
interests by referring to 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
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 - ✔✔Material basis pf prosperity consisting in abundance (of lack)
of socially valuable property, possessions, and goods.
Class - ✔✔Demographic division, stratum, or rank defined by persistent,
shared socio economic status. Ex. Shared factors like preside, power, or
culture/
-Often understood in relation to industrial means of productions
ex. Factory owner (capitalist) vs. Factory worker (proletariat)
Age - ✔✔Length of time an individual as lived (lifespan)
Generation - ✔✔Birth cohort of age group of individuals born/living in sam
time period with socially recognized collective identity.
