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Select the answer that correctly fills in the blanks. According to Hebdige, critics of Afro American and Caribbean music say there is too much stress on _____ and not enough “______.”
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repetition and originality
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What does Hebdige say is at the heart of all Afro American and Caribbean musics?
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Versioning
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According to Hebdige, a dub version is where
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the rhythm is shaken out and played with
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How many versions were there of the song ''Selng Teng'' by 1985?
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239
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Name three producers mentioned by Williams
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Lee Perry, Ruby King, King Tubby
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According to Williams one of the major principles of dub is the
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The denial of the right of the musician to control their output
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Which innovation was called “the most interesting new abstract concept to appear in modern music since Ornette Coleman undermined the dictatorship of Western harmony”?
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dub
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Which of the following does NOT describe dub
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centered around the vocal melody
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According to Williams, what was the album cover for King Tubby Meets the Upsetter missing?
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humans
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Bluebeat was the name Jamaicans used for American blues (T/F)
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False
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Bob Marley refused to let Chris Blackwell put out his first single, “Judge Not” (T/F)
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False
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Catch a Fire was the first reggae record conceived of as an album (T/F)
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True
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Bob Marley’s first commercial breakthrough was 1976’s Rastaman Vibration (T/F)
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True
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Chris Blackwell marketed early Jamaican music as ska in England (T/F)
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True
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Chris Blackwell remixed some tracks on Catch a Fire to add guitar (T/F)
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True
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Chris Blackwell successfully marketed reggae as a novelty music to a rock audience (T/F)
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False
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Island Records was instrumental in the invention of the concept of world music (T/F)
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True
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Island Records was the first label to apply the same artistic standards to reggae as had been customary for rock (T/F)
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True
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Chris Blackwell rescued reggae from the ghetto (T/F)
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True
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The main place Jamaicans heard local records was on the radio (T/F)
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False
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Rastaman Vibration was a conscious attempt to sell records to black America (T/F)
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True
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Disco first began
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Black and gay communities
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Which city is associated with the birth of disco?
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New York
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What does Gloria Gaynor say whites had trouble doing?
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Dance to sophisticated R&B rhythms
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According to Gloria Gaynor what did disco allow whites to do?
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dance like blacks
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How did Tom Petty react to disco?
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He wanted to destroy disco
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What, according to Covach and Flory, was behind the “disco sucks” attitude of rockers?
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disco was opposite to the hippie aesthetic
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What according to Gloria Gaynor, did disco allow white people to do?
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Dance to a simplified form of black music
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What was the record company’s response to DEVO when the band wanted to make a video for “Whip It”?
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they said “absolutely not”
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DEVO fits into new wave because their video for “Whip It”
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portrayed iron and satire of corporate america
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Which all girl band opened for the Police and beat them in the charts?
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the Go-Gos
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Why did MTV censor Culture Club’s “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” video?
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it had black people dressed as minstrels
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Which Madonna video enraged MTV execs?
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justify my love
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Brian Eno said that Madonna’s critics didn’t like the fact that
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music was not the centre, it was part of the Madonna package
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Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, said that the “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” video was inspired by
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Salvador dali
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Why doesn’t Phil Collins think he could have made it in the music business had he started in the MTV age?
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he was chubby and balding
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Which MTV initiative did David Bowie say instigated social change
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rock the vote
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Ronald Reagan cited which rock artist in his patriotic speech?
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bruce springsteen
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MTV didn’t realize the Clash’s filmmaker, Don Letts, was black? (T/F)
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True
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The MTV representative in the documentary says that MTV was playing about the same number of videos from both white and black artists? (T/F)
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True
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According to Public Enemy’s Chuck D, having Michael Jackson on MTV in the 1980s came at the right time for black America? (T/F)
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False
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“Justify My Love” is no more risqué than average American popular culture? (T/F)
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False
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American feminism is rife with puritan values? (T/F)
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True
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Feminists envy masculinity? (T/F)
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False
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Feminists have hated Madonna from the start? (T/F)
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True
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MTV was right to ban “Justify My Love”? (T/F)
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True
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Underneath the shock factor Madonna’s music reveals puritan values? (T/F)
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False
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Feminism says “we are nothing but masks” but Madonna attempts to show us what is behind the mask? (T/F)
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False
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Both new wave and new traditionalism appropriated earlier styles of rock ironically? (T/F)
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False
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New traditionalism appropriated earlier styles of rock sincerely, not ironically? (T/F)
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True
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New traditionalism was concerned with creating a pastiche of earlier, pre-hippy styles? (T/F)
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False
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Both new traditionalism and punk wanted to celebrate pre 1965 styles of rock? (T/F)
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True
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Frith says that in the first week of his Live LP release, Springsteen
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earned $7.5 million
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Springsteen’s Live LP became
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the ultimate object of capitalist fantasy
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Springsteen’s disdain for success
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is what makes him successful
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According to Frith, Springsteen’s Live LP, “the most successful pop commodity of the moment,” stands for the principle that
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music should not be a commodity
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If Bruce Springsteen didn’t exist, American rock critics would…
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critics would invent him
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At a time when rock is the soundtrack for TV commercials, tours benefit from corporate sponsorship, and music videos have blurred the lines between creativity and commerciality, Springsteen suggests that rock music
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gives people a way to define themselves against corporate logic
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According to rock critics, Springsteen is part of a musical legacy that stretches back to
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woody Guthrie
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In order to understand authenticity, it needs to be defined against
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artifice
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To be authentic and to sound authentic in the rock context is
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the same thing
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The idea that art and commercialism are opposites starts in Europe with a movement known as
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romanticism
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Which rap record was the first to hit number one on the pop album chart?
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Licensed to Ill
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“Break spinning” is best described as:
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mixing together highly rhythmic instrumental passages using two turntables
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The repeating of a drum break taken from the middle of a record is called what?
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a break beat
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Quincy Jones said that rap had a problem with
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TV and even black radio
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In the video KRS One says that “the black community had nothing to represent themselves. Everything was somebody else’s expression of reality. We were forced to take that, mutilate it and give it back as our expression.” Ideologically this statement demonstrates which of our course concepts?
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Versioning
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Grandmaster Flash describes his theory of the quick mix. What is the quick mix?
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Repeating the same section of a song using two turntables
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Sociologist Deena Weinstein says that any way you cut it, metal’s performance of masculinity is sexist. (T/F)
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False
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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider says that wearing lingerie made him question his sexuality. (T/F)
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False
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Poison, an all male band, told their photographer that they wanted to look like the women on the cover of fashion magazines. (T/F)
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True
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Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider hoped by wearing lingerie he could freak people out. (T/F)
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True
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Eddie Van Halen and Bach are compared because both are/were
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improvisers
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Why do the models of violin and organ become relevant to the guitar?
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Because notes can be sustained using amplification and feedback
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The technological revolution has created internet sites like YouTube where youth can view heavy metal for free. (T/F)
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False
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Heavy metal arose in England as a form of counter-cultural rebellion. (T/F)
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True
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Defenders of heavy metal say that its themes are purely fantasy. (T/F)
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False
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W.A.S.P. stands for “We are Sexual Predators” (T/F)
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True
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W.A.S.P’s concerts featured simulated orgies with groupies. (T/F)
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False
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According to Blackie Lawless the worst thing that can happen to any rock ‘n’ roller is to get censored. (T/F)
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False
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The idea that music has the power to shape society is traced back to Greek philosopher Plato. (T/F)
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True
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One of heavy metal’s central themes is hatred. (T/F)
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True
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Teen violence has been linked to listening to heavy metal. (T/F)
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True
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Tipper Gore admits to having played metal in her teenage years. (T/F)
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False
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