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A musical genre combining elements of folk music and rock music. The term referred to a genre that arose in the United States and the UK around the mid-1960s. The genre was pioneered by the Los Angeles band The Byrds and Bob Dylan.
What is Folk Rock
100
A document that lists the songs that a band or musical artist intends to play, or has played, during a specific concert performance.
What is a Set List
100
A music festival held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15th - 18th, 1969.
What is Woodstock
100
A portable music playing device. introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry music with them and listen to music through lightweight headphones.
What is a Sony Walkman
100
The common current thought of the majority. It includes all popular culture and media culture, typically disseminated by mass media.
What is Mainstream
200
A popular music genre that originated in the United States in the 1950s and early 1960s. It combined elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, and often jazz. It was influential during the period of the civil rights movement
What is Soul Music
200
Musicians who write, compose and perform their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary pop music singers who write or co-write their own songs, the term describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the folk-acoustic tradition.
What is a Singer/Songwriter
200
A movement indicating pride in being black. Related movements include black nationalism, Black Panthers, and Afrocentrism.
What is the Black Pride Movement
200
A magnetic tape sound recording technology. It was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s through to the early 1980s.
What is an 8 Track
200
In jazz and blues, it is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. Typically the alteration is a semitone or less, but this varies among performers and genres.
What are Blue Notes
300
A style of rock music that often uses new recording techniques and effects and draws on non-Western sources such as the ragas and drones of Indian music.
What is Psychedelic Music
300
An American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California. They were among the most controversial, influential and unique rock acts of the 1960s and beyond, mostly because of Morrison's wild, poetic lyrics and charismatic but unpredictable stage persona.
Who are The Doors
300
People born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964.
What is the baby boomer generation
300
A method of sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole. Became possible with the idea of simultaneously recording different audio channels to separate discrete "tracks" on the same tape
What is Multi-Track Recording
300
A studio album where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to a single overall theme or unified story. In contrast, typical studio albums consist of a number of unconnected songs (lyrically and otherwise) performed by the artist.
What is a Concept Album
400
A genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. The bands developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness.
What is Heavy Metal
400
Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders.
What is a Session Musician
400
The Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from 1944 to 1950.
What is the Vietnam Draft
400
An American basic cable and satellite television channel. Launched on August 1, 1981,the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by television personalities known as "VJ's"
What is MTV
400
A social phenomenon that occurred during the summer of 1967, when as many as 100,000 people converged on the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, initiating a major cultural and political shift.
What is the Summer of Love
500
A rock music subgenre that originated in the United Kingdom, with further developments in Germany, Italy, and France, throughout the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s by bands like Pink Floyd.
What is Progressive Rock
500
Musical groups whose live albums and concerts relate to a unique fan culture that began in the 1960s with The Grateful Dead, and continued in the 1990s with bands like Phish.
What is a Jam Band
500
The shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others,.
What is the Kent State Shootings
500
Is an electric piano which became particularly popular throughout the 1970s.
What is a Fender Rhodes
500
An individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular field. This word is often used to refer to an individual with superior technique or execution in fine arts, or music, often singing, playing a musical instrument or composition.
What is a Virtuoso
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