MUNM 287 Part 2 Lecture quizzes with
answers passed
What was the first form of popular culture to celebrate characteristics of city life? - correct
answer ✔✔Rock 'n' Roll
There was a great deal of resistance to rock 'n' roll particularly in the American South. Why? -
correct answer ✔✔Its primary roots were in black culture
This American sociologist established the sociology department at Harvard University. His work
was enormously influential through the 1950s and well into the 1960s. - correct answer
✔✔Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons advocated a new approach to studying popular culture, encompassing not only
sociology but also all the social sciences. This new approach was called - correct answer ✔✔the
grand theory
The theory of African-American cultural assimilation contained stages. How many stages were
there? - correct answer ✔✔3 stages
The process of taking a song or style from the black culture and reproducing it using a white
singer is known as a: - correct answer ✔✔cover version
Audience of the mid 50s forced the music industry to provide and alternative to the bland music
on the radio using this method: - correct answer ✔✔determined resistance to the status quo
Charlie Gillett identified three modes of expression in popular music. They were sentimental,
melodramatic, and - correct answer ✔✔trivial-novelty
, black singers learner to adopt styles that were specially developed for the white audience. Two
of the best at this technique were: - correct answer ✔✔Nat King Cole and Chuck Berry
An example of a cover version was the song Sh-Boom which was recorded by both the Chords
and - correct answer ✔✔The Crew Cuts
Of the three classifications of music of Rock 'n' Roll, Rock and Roll, and Rock, which is defined as
the particular kind of music to which the term was first applied - correct answer ✔✔Rock 'n'
Roll
All post-1964 derivations of rock 'n' roll were known as: - correct answer ✔✔Rock
This song by Bill Haley and his Comets was the first rock 'n' roll song to make the best selling
lists.. Billboard's national chart - correct answer ✔✔Crazy Man Crazy
The phrases "Rock and roll" were rhythm and blues euphemisms for this: - correct answer
✔✔sex
up until the end of the 1930s the vast majority of recorded music was or sounded like: - correct
answer ✔✔show tunes
the two major licensing agents in music are - correct answer ✔✔ASCAP and BMI
How many major recording companies dominated the popular music market prior to rock and
roll? - correct answer ✔✔six
by 1952 there were over 100 independent companies in business, many of them specialized in
this genre - correct answer ✔✔rhythm and blues
answers passed
What was the first form of popular culture to celebrate characteristics of city life? - correct
answer ✔✔Rock 'n' Roll
There was a great deal of resistance to rock 'n' roll particularly in the American South. Why? -
correct answer ✔✔Its primary roots were in black culture
This American sociologist established the sociology department at Harvard University. His work
was enormously influential through the 1950s and well into the 1960s. - correct answer
✔✔Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons advocated a new approach to studying popular culture, encompassing not only
sociology but also all the social sciences. This new approach was called - correct answer ✔✔the
grand theory
The theory of African-American cultural assimilation contained stages. How many stages were
there? - correct answer ✔✔3 stages
The process of taking a song or style from the black culture and reproducing it using a white
singer is known as a: - correct answer ✔✔cover version
Audience of the mid 50s forced the music industry to provide and alternative to the bland music
on the radio using this method: - correct answer ✔✔determined resistance to the status quo
Charlie Gillett identified three modes of expression in popular music. They were sentimental,
melodramatic, and - correct answer ✔✔trivial-novelty
, black singers learner to adopt styles that were specially developed for the white audience. Two
of the best at this technique were: - correct answer ✔✔Nat King Cole and Chuck Berry
An example of a cover version was the song Sh-Boom which was recorded by both the Chords
and - correct answer ✔✔The Crew Cuts
Of the three classifications of music of Rock 'n' Roll, Rock and Roll, and Rock, which is defined as
the particular kind of music to which the term was first applied - correct answer ✔✔Rock 'n'
Roll
All post-1964 derivations of rock 'n' roll were known as: - correct answer ✔✔Rock
This song by Bill Haley and his Comets was the first rock 'n' roll song to make the best selling
lists.. Billboard's national chart - correct answer ✔✔Crazy Man Crazy
The phrases "Rock and roll" were rhythm and blues euphemisms for this: - correct answer
✔✔sex
up until the end of the 1930s the vast majority of recorded music was or sounded like: - correct
answer ✔✔show tunes
the two major licensing agents in music are - correct answer ✔✔ASCAP and BMI
How many major recording companies dominated the popular music market prior to rock and
roll? - correct answer ✔✔six
by 1952 there were over 100 independent companies in business, many of them specialized in
this genre - correct answer ✔✔rhythm and blues
