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What are the 3 main markets for popular music before rock and roll? ANS 1) Popular music (including big band music)(middle-class white audience) 2) Country & Western(rural, low income, mostly white) 3) Rhythm & Blues (low-income, mostly black) How were the 3 main markets for popular music before rock and roll "consumed" or experienced? ANS 1) live performances: vaudeville/stage shows 2) home concerts/published music 3) radio 4) recordings 5) movies 6) TV What are Tin Pan Alley ...

MUSIC 1600 FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE |GRADED A+

MUSIC 1600 FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE |GRADED A+ "The Message": Year, Written, Recorded, Genre 1982, Written by Sylvie Robinson, Recorded by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five + (Grandmaster Melle Mel), hip hop "The Message": Lyrics and Technology -lyrics about social criticism on black ghetto life, danger of crime, and racism -Used a synthesizer (keyboard instrument) -Roland 808 Digital drum machine Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five...

Great Speckled Bird written by Rev. Guy Smith, recorded by Roy Acuff and his Tenneseans in 1930s Taking a Chance on Love recorded by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with Helen Forrest(vocalist); written by Vernon Duke; arranged by Fletcher Henderson in 1940s Mambo No. 5 written and recorded by Perez Prado in 1940s Hound Dog written by Leiber and Stoller; recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1950s I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry written and recorded by Hank Williams in 1940s Maybellene writ...

MUSI 1003 FINAL EXAM | QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATE |GRADED A+ What is a "Session Musician"? ANS -Musicians that are able to work quickly and creatively -Paid by service -Often go into the session blindly -Important to be prepared to play many different types of music (sometimes more focused on the feel of the music and not the notes) Dates of Motown: ANS 1959/1960-early 1970's Originating in Detroit What similarities do you hear in the bass parts o...

Simple harmony can be created when a melody is accompanied by a long, sustained tone called a ANS drone The _____ serves as home base in most Western music. ANS tonic The development of harmony is central to Western music. ANS true The first and last note in a major or minor scale is called the ANS tonic The most common type of chord in Western music is the ANS triad The progression of ________ creates a feeling of order and unity in music. ANS harmony The tonality of a piece...

True or false: Today, for our final new topic of the semester, we will be looking at some miscellaneous developments in the music industry over the past 30 years, that have absolutely transformed how music today is performed, produced, distributed, and how we, as music consumers, engage with it. Many of the technologies that we take for granted, because they are now such a permanent presence is our daily lives, are fairly recent inventions. Personal computers became more common in mid...

Origins of hip hop/ rap Ans South bronx nyc Economy when hip hop began Ans Economically depressed; few opportunities What did hip hop start out as Ans "neighborhood music" in south bronx Who were the main types of people that started hip hop and how Ans Black and latino djs by spinning records in public Where did djs originally start spinning hip hop records Ans Public places such as parks, block parties, community centers, etc. Hip hop culture includes An

A physical interpretation of music; music embodied Ans Dance Is an emotional reaction to music Ans Dance Dance is a ____ engagement to music Ans Social Dance music tends to have specific Ans Qualities The three qualities of music (most styles) Ans - steady beat - repetition - unique, distinguishing features for each style (ex: characteristic beats- when a specific style of music has a certain rhythmic pattern that we associate with this style of musicits what makes that style...

"The Message": Year, Written, Recorded, Genre ANS 1982, Written by Sylvie Robinson, Recorded by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five + (Grandmaster Melle Mel), hip hop "The Message": Lyrics and Technology ANS -lyrics about social criticism on black ghetto life, danger of crime, and racism -Used a synthesizer (keyboard instrument) -Roland 808 Digital drum machine Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five ANS -influential hip-hop group -formed in 1979 and active five years -Dj Gra...