MUSC 2150 questions with complete
solutions 2025/2026
ASCAP represents the artists of which style of music? - ANS ✔✔Tin Pan Alley
Which of the following is true of the Civil Rights Act? - ANS ✔✔It marked the end of the Jim
Crow era
The 12-bar blues chord progression is a feature of urban blues. True or false? - ANS ✔✔True
Large, open air festivals became an important part of rock culture for the first time in the 60s
T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Music prowess is particularly valued in the hippie aesthetic T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Which of the following is true of music in the big-band era? - ANS ✔✔the bandleader was the
star of the show
What is the significance of Elvis Presley's move to the RCA label from Sun? - ANS ✔✔It began
the shift of rock and roll from independent labels to major labels
Pet Sounds became an influential album because: - ANS ✔✔it combined the Wall of Sound and
other sophisticated studio techniques with complex harmonies
In the Brill Building approach to popular music, control was in the hands of the: - ANS
✔✔Producer/Publisher
,The second Red Scare contributed to the recession of the early 70's T/F - ANS ✔✔False
Which label successfully adopted the Brill Building production model? - ANS ✔✔Motown
Senator Joseph McCarthy led a campaign against? - ANS ✔✔Communism
Which organizations were involved in the payload scandal? - ANS ✔✔ASCAP, FCC, and BMI
In which war was American engaged in the 1950's - ANS ✔✔The cold war
Tin Pan Alley music is strongly associated with which form? - ANS ✔✔AABA
What was the effect of television shows such as Leave it to Beaver and My Three Sons? - ANS
✔✔They reinforced the normalcy Of traditional American values
What was the significance of the film Blackboard Jungle? - ANS ✔✔It cemented the association
of rock and roll and teenage rebellion
Lyrics in progressive rock are usually about romance or sexual prowess T/F? - ANS ✔✔False
(progressive rock lyrics are usually about a story or something to do with the values of the
hippie aesthetic)
the resurgence of blues-based rock came mostly from Britain T/F - ANS ✔✔True
The television show The Monkees was a response to what? - ANS ✔✔The film A Hard Day's
Night ( more specifically the Beatles success in America)
, What did many Americans believe was imminent during the early 1950's? - ANS ✔✔A nuclear
attack due to the startup of the Cold War with the Soviet Union
One of the influences on surf music was doo-wop T/F - ANS ✔✔True
The progressive rock of the late 1960's and early 70's blended elements of classical music and
rock T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Bing Crosby is credited with: - ANS ✔✔Creating one of the earliest stage personas
The technique of splicing together tapes of recorded material was inspired by the work of
Avant-garde art-music composers T/F? - ANS ✔✔True ( one if the first groups to use this
inspiration was the Beatles)
What occurred that allowed regional styles a chance at national radio play in the early 1940's? -
ANS ✔✔ASCAP and the national radio networks had a contract dispute over fees
Yodelling is a feature of what style of music? - ANS ✔✔country and western
Pink Floyd was a popular act in the london psychedelic scene T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Call and response is often a feature of: - ANS ✔✔rural blues, urban blues, and Field hollers
What feature of Hank Williams performances made him so popular? - ANS ✔✔His emotional
sincerity
What was an event that heavily influenced black popular music in the late 1960's? - ANS
✔✔The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
solutions 2025/2026
ASCAP represents the artists of which style of music? - ANS ✔✔Tin Pan Alley
Which of the following is true of the Civil Rights Act? - ANS ✔✔It marked the end of the Jim
Crow era
The 12-bar blues chord progression is a feature of urban blues. True or false? - ANS ✔✔True
Large, open air festivals became an important part of rock culture for the first time in the 60s
T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Music prowess is particularly valued in the hippie aesthetic T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Which of the following is true of music in the big-band era? - ANS ✔✔the bandleader was the
star of the show
What is the significance of Elvis Presley's move to the RCA label from Sun? - ANS ✔✔It began
the shift of rock and roll from independent labels to major labels
Pet Sounds became an influential album because: - ANS ✔✔it combined the Wall of Sound and
other sophisticated studio techniques with complex harmonies
In the Brill Building approach to popular music, control was in the hands of the: - ANS
✔✔Producer/Publisher
,The second Red Scare contributed to the recession of the early 70's T/F - ANS ✔✔False
Which label successfully adopted the Brill Building production model? - ANS ✔✔Motown
Senator Joseph McCarthy led a campaign against? - ANS ✔✔Communism
Which organizations were involved in the payload scandal? - ANS ✔✔ASCAP, FCC, and BMI
In which war was American engaged in the 1950's - ANS ✔✔The cold war
Tin Pan Alley music is strongly associated with which form? - ANS ✔✔AABA
What was the effect of television shows such as Leave it to Beaver and My Three Sons? - ANS
✔✔They reinforced the normalcy Of traditional American values
What was the significance of the film Blackboard Jungle? - ANS ✔✔It cemented the association
of rock and roll and teenage rebellion
Lyrics in progressive rock are usually about romance or sexual prowess T/F? - ANS ✔✔False
(progressive rock lyrics are usually about a story or something to do with the values of the
hippie aesthetic)
the resurgence of blues-based rock came mostly from Britain T/F - ANS ✔✔True
The television show The Monkees was a response to what? - ANS ✔✔The film A Hard Day's
Night ( more specifically the Beatles success in America)
, What did many Americans believe was imminent during the early 1950's? - ANS ✔✔A nuclear
attack due to the startup of the Cold War with the Soviet Union
One of the influences on surf music was doo-wop T/F - ANS ✔✔True
The progressive rock of the late 1960's and early 70's blended elements of classical music and
rock T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Bing Crosby is credited with: - ANS ✔✔Creating one of the earliest stage personas
The technique of splicing together tapes of recorded material was inspired by the work of
Avant-garde art-music composers T/F? - ANS ✔✔True ( one if the first groups to use this
inspiration was the Beatles)
What occurred that allowed regional styles a chance at national radio play in the early 1940's? -
ANS ✔✔ASCAP and the national radio networks had a contract dispute over fees
Yodelling is a feature of what style of music? - ANS ✔✔country and western
Pink Floyd was a popular act in the london psychedelic scene T/F - ANS ✔✔True
Call and response is often a feature of: - ANS ✔✔rural blues, urban blues, and Field hollers
What feature of Hank Williams performances made him so popular? - ANS ✔✔His emotional
sincerity
What was an event that heavily influenced black popular music in the late 1960's? - ANS
✔✔The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
