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100

What artist is considered the "Queen of Soul"?

Aretha Franklin

100

This group was inspired by Robert Johnson, and modeled their song "Crossroads" after Johnson's "Crossroad Blues"

Cream

100

What decade is associated with political unrest, liberated sexuality, and more visible drug use?

The 1960's

100

What genre of 60s music included aspects of gospel and the blues and was associated with Black pride?

Soul

100
An album by this band inspired Dark Side of the Rainbow, the pairing of the movie The Wizard of Oz and the album Dark Side of the Moon:

Pink Floyd

200

He used the business/production model of a "musical assembly line" for his record company

Berry Gordy

200

This band, which performed at the Tripps Festival, was known for improvised & open-ended performances, and were inspired by the folk revival scene

The Grateful Dead

200

This genre was called "the sound of integration" by historian David Szatmary:


Motown

200

Which genre is "less a musical style than a highly theatrical and gender-bending mode of presentation" and often gave a voice to gay communities?

Glam Rock

200

What are the three instruments in a power trio?

Guitar, bass, drums

300

This artist had several subversive personas, including Aladdin Sane and The Thin White Duke

David Bowie

300

What book inspired the lyrics for the Jefferson Airplane song on your listening list?

Alice in Wonderland

300

The use of this drug inspired events such as the "Human Be-In" and the Tripps Festival: 

LSD

300

What genre of music features "long blues-based improvisations, surrealist lyrics, loud volumes, and lavish light-shows, intended to evoke or support a drug-induced state"?

Psychedelic Rock

300

This artist was known for their stunning guitar innovations, such as wrist vibrato, playing with the teeth, nonstandard tunings, virtuoso volume & tone control effects, pitch bends, and huge range of feedback techniques

Jimi Hendrix

400

Which psychedelic blues artist modeled her style after black R&B and blues artists like Bessie Smith and Otis Redding?

Janis Joplin

400

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer released this album  a "cover" of a classical work by Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

400

This movement in the 1960s came from the idea that Black Americans should reject dominant (white) standards of beauty and culture and embrace their own.

Black Pride

400

Which genre of music is a "subgenre of country rock, blues- and country-based styles, typically more aggressive in sound, centered on electric guitars and vocals"?

Southern Rock

400

This was a marketing term to describe American stadium acts (the Eagles, Toto, Foreigner, Styx) who catered to those in their 20s & 30s, rather than teens

AOR (Album Oriented Rock)

500

This singer for Led Zeppelin is one of the most influential vocalists for future metal/hard-rock singers such as Axl Rose, Geddy Lee, and Steven Tyler

Robert Plant

500

With which visual artist were the Velvet Underground associated?

Andy Warhol

500

This musical revival in later 60s was marked by militant and student protests, and moved away from the “peace, love, and happiness” of the hippies; it also inspired heavy metal

Electric Blues Revival

500

This experimental genre of music took inspiration from classical, jazz, and other “art” music

Progressive rock

500

These amps helped provided the characteristic loudness of heavy metal:

Marshall Amps

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