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This type of drumming hits the snare drum on beats two and four.
What is a backbeat?
This radio professional is known by the abbreviated "DJ"
What is a disk jockey?
This decade saw the proliferation of a counter culture focused around peace, harmony, and concern for fellow human beings.
What were the 1960's?
This musician played the guitar left-handed, was responsible for introducing a lot of dissonance into mainstream rock and roll, and has a chord named after him because he used it so frequently.
Who was Jimi Hendrix?
This early rock heart throb sang "Hound Dog" and "Can't Help Falling in Love"
Who is Elvis Presley?
This two-sided format was the main way to buy a music recording in the 1940's - 1970's.
What is a vinyl record?
The Beach Boys were the top selling American band of the 60's - who were the top selling British band?
Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Jimi Hendrix were all members of what club?
What is the 27 club?
Pat Boone, a white artist, re-recorded and released "tutti frutti," a song written by this black artist. Opinions on whether Pat helped popularize his music or unfairly stole from him are divided.
Who is Little Richard.
This band is known for popularizing "surf rock," a subgenre of rock focused on California surf culture.
Who are the Beach Boys?
What were the 1970's?
This scandal involved President Nixon trying to spy on the opposing political party. The scandal is named after the hotel where the burglary took place, and this incident lowered Americans' trust in their government.
What is the Watergate scandal?
This term is broadly used to describe using part of someone's historical customs, traditions, art, or music to benefit themselves, without paying proper tribute to the original art.
What is cultural appropriation?
This is the name for when a male change voice sings very high notes, a la the beach boys
What is the falsetto?
Who are teenagers?
This genre of music was one of genres that influenced early rock and roll. It has a short, 12-bar form, usually repeats the first line of lyrics, and often has sad lyrical content.
What is the blues?
This style of music was so hated by rock and roll fans that they exploded a pile of records of this genre at a baseball game.
What is disco?
This is the name for an album where all the songs focus around one main idea.
What is a concept album?
Early Rock and Roll began in this decade.
What are the 1950's?
If you put a microphone or a guitar right in front of the amp, the sound will come out of the speaker, go into the microphone, then back out of the speaker and into the microphone, and on and on in an endless cycle that results in a high pitched noise. What is this called?
What is feedback, or technically, a feedback loop?