1. a. What was "Doo-wop?"
b.What were its influences?
c. What was the usual vocal format?
2. What were are two main styles of doo-wop, and what types of songs did they sing?
3. a. What are the 5 styles of rock and roll that developed between 1954 and 1956 (brief description)?
b. Who are representative artists from each?
5. a. Describe Phil Spector's "wall of sound."
b. What was another important innovation of Phil Spector's, at least in the rock and roll era? Give 2 examples. (The answer to this is NOT "wall of sound."
6. a. Describe the emergence of the "urban folk revival."
b. Who were some of the main groups in the movement?
c. What rock style did it generate?
7. a. What were the two, rather disparate, regions in which English rock developed?
b. Who was the main band from each region?
c. Who were the "second string" (my term) bands to pattern their music after the first? (eg: who patterned themselves after which main band?)
d. Briefly describe the sounds of each of the 2 "camps", musically speaking.
8. What were the American musical influences evident in England just prior to the emergence of British rock?
9. a. What were the musical bases for San Francisco rock? ("bases" = plural of "basis")
b. What are 3 innovations that came about as a result?
10. What event, in what year, gave many West Coast bands their "big break?"
11. Who was the most influential LA-based rock band?
b. Describe their musical style.
12. Describe the instrumentation and lyric (wods) content that distinguishes southern rock from other forms of American rhythm and blues-influenced rock.
13. What was the difference between the style and presentation of black "doo-wop" in the 1950s and soul music in the 1960s?
14. What were Thomas A. Dorsey's innovations in the presentation of black religious music? (This is the Thomas Dorsey from gospel music, not the swing band leader of the same name.)
15. a. Briefly describe "art rock" - the music - and how the Moody Blues, Yes, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer applied it.
b. How did Frank Zappa's music differ?
16. What are the musical differences between reggae and ska, and how was each influenced?
17. Why isn't heavy metal dance music?
18. Why was Bruce Springsteen's music so popular in the 1970s and ‘80s?
b. Describe his style.
19. How does New Age music represent both the very old and the very new in music styles?
20. What are the roots of rap in African-American music? (We talked about this early in the semester, and I gave you the correct answer; it is not a style of rap, or a location.)
21. How did Elvis Presley completely change pop music in America when he emerged onto the musical "scene?"