Genre
Black and Latino popular music rooted in the performance practices of the 1970s Bronx
Hip-Hop
An effort spanning from the late 1940s to the late 1960s organized by black Americans and allies to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law
Civil Rights Movement
A digital recording format on optical disc, in use since the 1980s
CD
Cable television station debuted in 1981 and airing only music videos
MTV
Post 1960s Rhythm and Blues with greater infusion of black gospel elements
Soul
The American fascination with the Beatles and other bands from the UK in the 1960s
British Invasion
A compressed digital audio file format that takes relatively little computer memory to store and travels easily across the Internet
MP3
Since the 1950s, a new recording of a previously recorded popular song
Cover
A musical category that packaged postwar country and R&B styles for a teenage audience
Rock and Roll
The state of political hostility existing between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990 and precipitating the Vietnam War
Cold War
The techniques of a hip-hop DJ, such as scratching, cutting, and beat matching
Turntablism
An office space in NYC where teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols in the early 1960s
Brill Building
Black popular style of the 1970s featuring complex polyrhythmic textures
Funk
A 1970s film genre featuring funk soundtracks, urban ghetto settings, stories focused on crime and punishment, and predominantly black casts
Blaxploitation
A digital device, introduced in the 1980s, used to create rhythmic loops of prerecorded sound
Sampler
A style of 1960s soul music, associated with this eponymous black-owned record label
Motown
Music rooted in the new blues styles that sprang up in the postwar years
Rhythm and Blues
A style of beat pioneered by Dr. Dre for gansta rap, featuring relaxed tempos, varied textures, hypnotic grooves, complex bass lines, and high-pitched synthesizer countermelodies
G-funk
The thick instrumental texture associated with 1960s popular recordings produced by Phil Spector
Wall of Sound
An LP (or later format) in which songs are composed or selected, arranged, and ordered to create a larger artistic whole
Concept album