Study Guide for the Final
Exam
Music 109 - Spring 2002
The exam will take place
Wednesday, May 8, 2002 in room 130 ILC from 11:00 AM -
1:00
PM
I. Listening.
Know items 10,11,12 and 25 on collection two
(CD2).
Know the remaining listening examples on Collections 3-6. The latter
collections are less densely backed than the first two and they include
material which is likely to be more familiar to you. The Collections are
available for on-line listening . Copies exist in the Reserve section of
the Music Library. Acession numbers are YUMCD 109.2, YUMCD109.3,
YUMCD109.4, etc.
- performer
- title
- style
- date (era) and when appropriate composer
- relevance of the item (how it relates to material covered in class
or in the text; what trends or approaches it represents
- For some brief suggestions visit the audio
review link.
II. For Multiple Choice and Matching Sections.
Review chapters 6-11 in the Garofalo: Rockin' Out, our primary
text, most of the items below can be found in that book. Define each item
below by being able to position it in time. Be able to explain its influence
upon or connection to individual musicians, a specific kind or music, and/or
more general attitudes regarding popular music. Whenever possible, try
linking a term to one or more of the musical examples on the collections
compiled for this class (Cds 2-5; and xtra-tape).
- Sputnik
- CORE
- SNCC
- Union songs
- Woody Guthrie and the nature of his music
- Pete Seeger and the nature of his music
- characteristics and exemplars of Folk Rock (consider early efforts
beginning in 1960s and then 1980s folk revival)
- Blacklisting during the McCarthy era
- Phil Ochs
- The Weavers
- Joan Baez
- goals of Civil Rights Movement in 1960s (what kind of music served
these goals)
- 1960s protest issues
- Influence of Bob Dylan
- PMRC's targets and omitted targets
- Phil Spector and the new role of the producer
- girl groups
- Leiber and Stoller
- 1964
- British Invasion
- Brian Epstein
- general comparisons between Beatles and Rolling Stones
- characteristics and exemplars of the early Motown sound
- Smokey Robinson
- Berry Gordy
- Motown's relationship with the British sound
- Jimi Hendrix (career & influences; contributions to rock technique
and sound conception)
- hippies
- hipster
- goals of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1970s
- characteristics and exemplars of the gospel/pop fusion
- differences between the Memphis sound (Stax-Volt) versus Motown
- Wattstax
- Top Motown artists in the 1970s
- James Brown and the Africanization of popular music
- The Second British Invasion
- white blues revivalists
- flower power
- examples of 1960s music affiliated with drugs
- characteristics and exemplars of Psychedelic Rock
- characteristics and exemplars of the communal spirit in the music of
the counterculture
- three fundamental positions of the counterculture by end of 1960s
- Woodstock (date, location, key performers, how it compared to other
festivals)
- Monterey Pop Festival
- Altamount
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- George Martin
- role of the producer
- avant garde composers (Cage)
- musique concrete
- art rock
- sitar
- tabla
- tanpura
- concept album
- representatives of the dark side of the 1960s counterculture
- Jim Morrison
- exemplars and characteristics of art rock in the late 1960s and 1970s
- Urban Contemporary format
- characteristics of early FM radio (beginning in the late 1960s)
- connections between military development and electronic communications
- exemplars of Southerm Boogie
- examplars and characteristics of soft soul in the early 1970s
- Gamble and Huff
- blaxploitation
- exemplars and characteristics of funk
- exemplars and characteristics of soft rock
- head music
- Exemplars of performers whose concerts became theatrical
events (compare to the 1970s trend in this regard)
- Exemplars and characteristics of late 60s early 70s heavy metal
- Jann Werner
- some predecessors of Rolling Stone magazine
- examples of how music provided performers and fans with an opportunity
challenge conventions regarding sexuality and gender
- origins of disco
- exemplars and characteristics of 1970s disco
- ways that disco initially bypassed the recording industry
- Saturday Night Fever
- Disco DJs
- Chicago disco DJ Steve Dahl
- Disco Demolition Night
- Exemplars of centrist rock in the mid-1970s
- ways that Bruce Springsteen might be compared to Bob Dylan
- Born in the USA
- Exemplars of female rock bands in the 1970s
- distinction between gender and sex
- strategies women have employed to participate in rock scene
- a geneology of punk rock beginning with the Velvet Underground
- Andy Warhol and his connection to rock
- the British versus U.S. punk scenes
- comparisons between punk and disc
- Malcolm McLaren
- Anarchy in the U.K.
- Ramones
- PiL
- the relation between facism and punk (confrontational art or political
endorsement)
- National Front
- punk's affiliation with reggae
- the 1975 Festival of Unsigned Bands
- CBGB
- Rock against racism
- The Punk Rock Festival (1976)
- characteristics and exemplars of the new wave
- nihilism (and its application to punk)
- Weltschmerz (and its application to punk)
- DIY mentality
- Patti Smith
- Riot Grrl
- fanzine
- characteristics and exemplars of hardcore
- AOR (radio)
- murder of John Lennon
- Examples of technology expanding music industry
- Examples of technology as performance media
- hip hop
- "Rapper's Delight"
- relationship between rap and film
- Kool Herc
- b-boys; b-girls
- roots of rapping (influential preceding verbal strategies)
- exemplars and characteristics of NY hip hop
- Run-D.M.C.
- Grand Master Flash
- Bronx style rapping
- Second generation of rapping
- gansta rap
- Henry Louis Gates on signifying
- examples of how rap has influenced jazz
- female rappers
- sampling
- di minimis usage
- Stravinsky (sample compositions; views on composing)
- Stephen Sondheim
- the origins (inspirational resources) of heavy metal
- exemplars and characteristics of the variants of the 1980s metal scene:
glam rock, lite metal, thrash, speed, death metal, black metal, white metal,
funk metal, female metal exemplars of sexual ambiguity on stage
- preservationist versus expansionist trends in 1980s metal
- Led Zeppelin
- Black Sabbath
- Headbanger's Ball
- "Suicide Solution"
- slamming
- Ingwe Malmsteen as an example of metal ties to classical music
- topical themes of heavy metal
- introduction of the videocassette
- date MTV launched
- televisual apparatus
- television as voyeurism
- veejays
- Beastie Boys role in MTV
- Duran Duran and their role in MTV
- anti-punk glamour
- VH1 and other examples of MTV's competition
- androgynous identity on stage and TV screen
- "predecessors" to MTV
- Robert Pittman
- "Beat It"
- Thriller
- impact of international superstars
- Purple Rain
- Like a Virgin
- Madonna
- charity rock
- mega-events and corporate sponsorship
- "saving our own lives"
- "Band Aid," "Live Aid," "We Are the World"
- Sun City
- MUSE/ No Nukes
- impact of international stardom
- Plato and his views on music
- Quintillian and his views on music
- Platonic views of music power compared to PMRC attempts at music censorship
- polysemic (many symbolic layers) character of music as a defense
against litigation
- Raschke's theories on brain's response to heavy metal
- examples of how rock has influenced jazz
- exemplars and characteristics of alternative music
- paradoxes in alternative music labeling and fan loyalty
- Nirvana compared to the Sex Pistols
- exemplars and characteristics of grunge
- Lollapalooza versus Woodstock '94
- Perry Farrell
- how some country music might be considered part of the
alternative rock scene
- Garth Brooks
- exemplars of world music as alternative music
- some global pop trends
- sonic tourism
- hybridity versus authenticity (or authentic recognition)
- Wallerstein on universalism (from lecture)
- Examples of the legacy and diversity of Spanish Rock
- RIAA
- MP3
- SDMI
- DAT
- peer to peer interface