The 1960s
Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown were key figures in this genre.
Soul
Merle Haggard and Buck Owens were known for this sub-genre of country music named after a particular place.
Bakersfield Sound
This subgenre of country music, featuring performers like Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, embraced some of the "counterculture" attitudes of the 60s and adopted a far less polished sound.
Progressive country
This neighborhood of NYC was the first home to hip-hop.
The Bronx
These were the first two rap albums to go multi-platinum in 1986.
Raising Hell by Run DMC and Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys
James Brown's "Live at The Apollo" is a key early example of this type of album.
Concert album
James Taylor, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell were all known primarily as this type or category of artist.
Singer-songwriter
Bob Marley's reggae music was quickly pushed to popularity due to the cover of his song "I Shot the Sheriff" by what rock artist?
Eric Clapton
Early hip-hop MCs created "collages" where they spun together this particular section of records.
The breaks
This Miami-based rap group won a famous Supreme Court case which upheld the right of rap musicians to parody (via sampling) pre-existing recorded material.
2 Live Crew
"Folk-rock" was set into motion by what key live event in the summer of 1965?
Bob Dylan "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival
This new format for music consumption gained mainstream popularity by the mid-1970s.
Eight track/cassette tapes
Although The Stooges, the Velvet Underground, and the New York Dolls all became popular groups within punk rock, the genre was most significantly developed and performed in this type of scene.
Regional/local scenes
This was hip-hop's first massively commercially successful hit, which also popularized the term "rap". (Artist and song title)
This key album of West Coast gangsta rap sparked controversy and restriction from the Parents’ Music Resource Center as well as police attention. (Artist and album title)
Straight Outa Compton by N.W.A (1989)
This song by Simon and Garfunkel explored the phenomenon of folk rock by layering electric instruments over an original, more acoustic song.
"The Sounds of Silence"
This radio format, popularized in the 70s, featured bands like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin and was primarily marketed to 18-25 year old white male listeners.
Album-Oriented Rock
This key figure of funk was also known for incredible live performances, such as his "Mothership Landing" on stage.
"The Message" by this key hip-hop artist was one of the first popular tracks within the genre to directly address "social realism" and the realities of culture in their community.
Grandmaster Flash (and the Furious Five)
This hip-hop album held the #1 chart position for 21 weeks in 1990. (Artist and album)
MC Hammer, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em
This famous 1967 album by The Beatles "rewrote the rules" of psychedelic rock by inviting the listener in and "breaking the fourth wall" while addressing the audience directly.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Disco de-emphasized the importance of this, as opposed to producers, djs, star singers, and dancers.
The band
Minimalism, clarity, texture, intellectualism, and even "awkwardness" played a large role in this rock subgenre.
New Wave
DJ Kool Herc was one of the first to implement this DJ technique, which manipulated a record across multiple turntables to repeat the same section over and over again.
Backspinning
This term referred collectively to multiple sub-genres of up-tempo, repetitive dance music that developed in club scenes of major cities from the early ‘80s on.
EDM (Electronic Dance Music)