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Musi 2740 Final Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
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- MUSI 2740
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- University Of Guelph (U Of G )
Musi 2740 Final Exam Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Musi 2740 Final Exam Questions And Answers
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Music of 1970s ANS✔✔ Rock Music, Disco, and Popular Mainstream of 70s
Popular music split into two categories in 70s: ANS✔✔ 1. teenagers
2. young adults (25-40) - grown up in 60s Rock n Roll
A lot of corporations that try to cater to the taste of young adults are
overshadowed by 6 major players in the music industry market: ANS✔✔ 1.
Columbia/CBS
2. Warner Communications
3. RCA Victor
4. Capitol-EMI
5. MCA (music corporation of America)
6. United Artists MGM
- responsible for over 80% record sales in the US
- corporations more industrialized in music industry
Few genres (especially in commercial mainstream) in 70s: ANS✔✔ - fringe
(heavy rock)
- pop rock
- adult contemporary
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- soft soul
- country pop
- disco
- singer/songwriter
- music of 50s/60s nostalgic (oldies radio)
Singer/Songwriter Genre ANS✔✔ known more for writing songs than for
voice
- ex: Bob Dylan, James Taylor
James Taylor ANS✔✔ - most successful long running career of 70s
singer/songwriter
- Sweet Baby James album "Fire and Rain"
- voice is surprisingly unremarkable; folky, raw
Country Music/Pop of 70s ANS✔✔ - southern, white working class
- crossover of country and pop happened in 70s
- ex. Olivia Newton John and Dolly Parton
Olivia Newton John ANS✔✔ - English born
- won female country singer award (country music association, CMA)
- "Have You Never Been Loved?"
- role in Grease
Dolly Parton ANS✔✔ - established country singer
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- "Nine to Five" "Jolene"
- original writer of "I Will Always Love You" (sang by Whitney Houston
- musical differences: intro & chorus differs; 1st verse of Houston's version
(no instrumental accompaniment); Houston's approach more flexible in
tempo, more heart wrenching/romantic; Dolly's gentle country ballad
Country Rock (Fringe) of 70s ANS✔✔ country music was increasingly
emulating the sounds and styles of mainstream pop, a group of rock
musicians were attracted to performing country-styled music
- ex. The Eagles
The Eagles ANS✔✔ country rock (fringe)
- "Hotel California"
- country foundation in Western themes song "Desperato"
- pop and rock influence: constant beat oriented quarter notes played in
piano throughout verse
- occasional country twang in diction
Pop Rock ANS✔✔ Upbeat variety of rock music represented by artists such
as Elton John, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, Chicago, and Peter Frampton
Elton John ANS✔✔ - British invasion
- "Crocodile Rock" (happy, go lucky tune)
Jimmi Hendrix: exception to promise of rock ANS✔✔ rock didn't keep
promise to internal, some ways it did but in some it didn't and Jimmi Hendrix
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