Music

1)Year of release of Sgt. Peppers; what cultural event occurred at that time?
2)Define psychedelia. Who were the main promoters, and what movement did it produce?
3)Name two main psychedelic bands, one from San Francisco and other from London.
4)Why did Beatles stop touring in August 1966?
5)What was the London underground?
6)How did Pink Floyd start? What were their first couple of albums called?
7)Which British band established idea of jazz virtuosity in rock music?
8)What was the controversy of Eight Miles High?
9)What was the revival in the 1960s about? Name some groups.
10)Name two important rock festivals of the 1960s, and their impact.
11)Define the hippie aesthetic.
12)What is blues-based British rock? Name bands.
13)Know sources of Led Zeppelins sound, and key songs.
14)What was the significance of Black Sabbath, what movement did they start? Name a couple of songs and albums.
15)What movement did the Allman Brothers exemplify? What was the significance of their music? What scene did their music correlate well with?
16)Name sources of Carlos Santanas style, what was his groundbreaking album called?
17)Define Progressive rock in the 1970s.
18)Which bands used classical concepts in rock contexts?
19)What was the Whos concept album called? What is its main storyline?
20)What does Yes represent?
21)Which album of Yes is representative of Eastern scripture?
22)Analyze the Roundabout.
23)How does Dark Side of the Moon relate to Wizard of Oz? Cite specific examples.
24)Which type of 1970s rock remained most faithful to the hippie aesthetic?
25)What type of rock did Blood Sweat and Tears represent?
26)Was jazz rock successful? If so, which decade?
27)What genre does Townes Van Zandt represent?
28)What is the difference between Southern Rock and Country Rock? Name bands.
29)What hindered Black pop music in the 1960s?
30)What label were the Temptations on? What is their significance?
31)Who was a producer-artist from Motown?
32)What was the sound of Southern soul?
33)What is the significance of Atlantic? Name a big group they produced?
34)Who were Leiber and Stoller, and what did they do.
35)What label were Sam and Dave on? Who produced their hits?
36)Whats the Stax sound?
37)What year did Black music in America change? Why?
38)What style did James Brown invent? What was his grandest moment?
39)What is the significance of Sly and the Family Stone?
40)Name a classic funk band from the 1970s.
41)What was the Philadelphia sound? Who were its producers?
42)What style did the Phil. Sound lead to?
43)What is the relationship of rock to disco?
44)What is the quest for the Big Album? Which artist had the first Big Album and when?
45)Name mainstream rock acts in the late 1970s. When did most of these artists start?
46)What did progressive rock do to survive in the late 1970s
47)What is confessional rock, and which artist epitomizes this movement?
48)What are the roots of punk, and in which country?
49)Talk about the punk scene of the 1970s centered on CBGB
50)How did British punk differ from NYC punk?
51)Who was Malcolm McLaren? What band did he put together?
52)Sex Pistols story: what was their first album called?
53)What is the punk aesthetic?
54)Why did the record companies back New Wave? What was at stake?
55)Name the prime New Wave artists of the late 70s and early 80s, including those not from CBGBs.
56)What values in particular did New Wave artists reject?
57)Compare Heart to Blondie.
58)What is the significance of MTV? When did it start, and what was necessary for it to begin?
59)Relationship of Michael Jackson to MTV?
60)What did Madonna represent?
61)What movement did the Police represent? Name key songs. Were they a part of the MTV revolution?
62)What was traditional music in the 1980s?
63)What were the new styles of the 1980s underground?
64)Whats the heavy metal image?
65)Name some British metal acts and songs.
66)Why LA and heavy metal?
67)What new type of metal did Metallica represent? Was it an accurate description of their style?
68)When and how did rap music and hip hop culture emerge?
69)Name a hip hop DJ.
70)What is gangsta rap, and who are its artists?
71)What do rap and heavy metal have in common?
72)Who was Nirvana? What did they start//on grunge/Gen X/1990s/alt rock
73)Characterize 1990s vs. 1980s music
74)Who wrote Frankenstein?
75)Who wrote and performed Mellon Collie?
76) Newish Motley Crue song
77) Singer for Counting Crows & Chile Peppers
78) Who did the album Definitely Maybe?
79) Name members of the Police?
80)Lead singer for Flaming Lips.