MUSC 253 Exam #2 questions with
correct answers 2025/2026
the umbrella term to describe the folk and blues in fenced music of the psychedelic era. -
correct answer ✔✔Acid rock
the ardent followers of the Grateful Dead. - correct answer ✔✔Deadheads
older ballrooms in San Francisco such as the Fillmore and Avalon that staged youth dances in
the early years of the city's psychedelic movement - correct answer ✔✔electric ballroom
the Greenwich Village recording studio built by Jimi Hendrix in the late 1960s. - correct answer
✔✔electric lady
a naturally produced, sustained distorted squeal created when high-volume sound coming out
of an ampli er is taken in by the pickup on the guitar (or a microphone) and then fed back into
the amplfier. - correct answer ✔✔feedback
refers to the renewed interest in folk music that occurred in the late 1950s after an earlier anti-
Communist furor had pushed it underground. - correct answer ✔✔fifties folk revival
a guitar technique rst popularized by Eddie Van Halen. - correct answer ✔✔fret board tapping
a distorted tone that results when an electric guitar signal is processed through a fuzz box -
a commercially available electronic device that adds distortion to the incoming signal. - correct
answer ✔✔fuzz tone
, simple raw form of rock and roll created by amateurish American bands in the 1960s. - correct
answer ✔✔garage rock
the district in San Francisco that became ground zero for the city's 1960s youth movement. -
correct answer ✔✔haight-ashbury
the term first coined by reporter Michael Fellon in 1965 to describe young people who wore
long hair, headbands, tie-dyed shirts and bell-bottom pants. - correct answer ✔✔hippies
a folk jam session where traditional folk songs are sung - correct answer ✔✔hootenanny
band that features extensive musical improvisation in its performances and crosses genre
boundaries. - correct answer ✔✔jam band
the mountainous wooded area north of West Hollywood when many rock artists lived in the
mid to late 1960s - correct answer ✔✔laurel canyon
short, recognizable melodic motives or phrases. - correct answer ✔✔licks
the chemical compound lysergic acid diethylamide, a mind-altering drug espoused by the hippie
counterculture of the 1960s. - correct answer ✔✔LSD
an early synthesizer capable of reproducing the sound of violins, cellos and utes on tape loops
activated when keys were depressed. - correct answer ✔✔mellotron
the friends and followers of author Ken Kesey, who in 1965 and 1966 held a series of "acid
tests", where LSD was distributed. - correct answer ✔✔merry pranksters
correct answers 2025/2026
the umbrella term to describe the folk and blues in fenced music of the psychedelic era. -
correct answer ✔✔Acid rock
the ardent followers of the Grateful Dead. - correct answer ✔✔Deadheads
older ballrooms in San Francisco such as the Fillmore and Avalon that staged youth dances in
the early years of the city's psychedelic movement - correct answer ✔✔electric ballroom
the Greenwich Village recording studio built by Jimi Hendrix in the late 1960s. - correct answer
✔✔electric lady
a naturally produced, sustained distorted squeal created when high-volume sound coming out
of an ampli er is taken in by the pickup on the guitar (or a microphone) and then fed back into
the amplfier. - correct answer ✔✔feedback
refers to the renewed interest in folk music that occurred in the late 1950s after an earlier anti-
Communist furor had pushed it underground. - correct answer ✔✔fifties folk revival
a guitar technique rst popularized by Eddie Van Halen. - correct answer ✔✔fret board tapping
a distorted tone that results when an electric guitar signal is processed through a fuzz box -
a commercially available electronic device that adds distortion to the incoming signal. - correct
answer ✔✔fuzz tone
, simple raw form of rock and roll created by amateurish American bands in the 1960s. - correct
answer ✔✔garage rock
the district in San Francisco that became ground zero for the city's 1960s youth movement. -
correct answer ✔✔haight-ashbury
the term first coined by reporter Michael Fellon in 1965 to describe young people who wore
long hair, headbands, tie-dyed shirts and bell-bottom pants. - correct answer ✔✔hippies
a folk jam session where traditional folk songs are sung - correct answer ✔✔hootenanny
band that features extensive musical improvisation in its performances and crosses genre
boundaries. - correct answer ✔✔jam band
the mountainous wooded area north of West Hollywood when many rock artists lived in the
mid to late 1960s - correct answer ✔✔laurel canyon
short, recognizable melodic motives or phrases. - correct answer ✔✔licks
the chemical compound lysergic acid diethylamide, a mind-altering drug espoused by the hippie
counterculture of the 1960s. - correct answer ✔✔LSD
an early synthesizer capable of reproducing the sound of violins, cellos and utes on tape loops
activated when keys were depressed. - correct answer ✔✔mellotron
the friends and followers of author Ken Kesey, who in 1965 and 1966 held a series of "acid
tests", where LSD was distributed. - correct answer ✔✔merry pranksters
