People
Songs
Technologies/Media
Ideologies
100

This artist looked at the intricate mechanics of computer technology to frame her music as an intricate "secret" being told.

Who is Bjork?

100

This song spoke out against gentrification and urban displacement.

What is "Open Letter (to a Landlord)" by Living Colour?

100

Bjork collected these intricate, insect-like sounds to play in her music.

What are microbeats?

100

This ideology centers "reaching to God" -- can be paralleled with ballet.

What is romanticism?

200

The founder of T.G.I Friday's.

Who is Alan Stillman?

200

This album debuted at #1 on Billboard and was the first in history to be experienced primarily via the internet.

What is Kid A?

200

Jimi Hendrix used these two pieces of equipment during his two performances, which allowed him to combine production with live performance.

What are the wah pedal and the fuzz pedal?

200

This ideology centers "finding the self within" -- analogous to modern dance.

What is modernism?

300

The DJ known for his work on FM radio.

Who is Tom "Big Daddy" Donahue?

300

This song engaged with the sublime by keeping verses with the same body and by not being based on repeated sections.

What is "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin?

300

This digital technology aimed to produce more realistic sounds than a synthesizer and was one of the technologies that began to replace tape.

What is Fairlight CMI (computer musical instrument)?

300

This ideology centers making creative use of surfaces, repurposing and confronting mass culture -- analogous to skateboarding.

What is postmodernism?

400

This American discovered Germany's use of tape recording in WWII.

Who is Jack Mullin?

400

This song by a well-known guitarist alluded to key notions found in modernist thought.

What is "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix?

400

This studio was bought by George Martin and considered to have the newest technologies (capable of producing a 24-track recording).

What is Wessex Studios?

400

This practice involves taking at-hand objects and fashioning them into something that has new meaning.

What is bricolage?

500

Bob Dylan's producer who helped him go electric.

Who is Tom Wilson?

500

The listener can hear each individual instrument in this song by what is considered to be the most important folk-rock band, rooted in improvisation.

What is "A Sailor's Life" by Fairport Convention?

500

This technique focused on highly accurate sound reproduction, using LP records, FM radio and other technologies.

What is hi-fi strategy?

500

This aesthetic is created by virtuosity of studio production as composition -- "feeling of violent emotions internalized."

What is the sublime?

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