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History Of Rock 'N' Roll Midterm 2 (Uleth, Fall 2024) – Questions And Answers
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History Of Rock 'N' Roll Midterm 2 (Uleth, Fall 2024) –Questions And Answers
Who were the Weavers' members brought before? Right Ans - The House
Un-American Activities Committee
What starts to rise in the 60s with the conversion to peace time and access of
money? Right Ans - The demand for consumerism.
The demaunnd for consumerism in the '60s sets the stage for? Right Ans -
A new economy with impulse aisle
Teenagers saw this conflict unfold between Right Ans - school, family,
church, and leisure activities
What was the conflict in the '60s fueled by? Right Ans - Rock 'n' roll and
political upheave
What was the dramatic shift in the political left in the 1960s? Right Ans -
Civil rights
Anti-war protesting
Black power
Student power
Couture culture
Women's liberation movement
John F. Kennedy passed a number of landmark legislations making what more
affordable for everyone? Right Ans - universities
More education produced more thinking in general.
The 60s decade is marked by a resurgence of what? Right Ans - folk music,
trends, surf music, boy girl teen groups and dances
,With what will rock 'n' roll receive its biggest revival? Right Ans - The
British invasion
By the turn of the decade, the first wave of R'N'R was ________________. Right
Ans - decimated
How is the 60s era of R'N'R described? Right Ans - hotly debated, tame
R'N'R
What was a very positive outcome for rock and roll? Right Ans - The
establishment of youth culture
-Focused on new generation of rock and roll followers from younger than
college age.
The older demographic turned to what kind of music? Right Ans - folk
music
The music at the turn of the decade showed ________________ characteristics,
most clearly seen out of practice in the brill building. Right Ans - tin-pan
alley characteristics.
What is the Brill Building? Right Ans - An office building located in the New
York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and further
uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood. It is famous for
housing music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular
American songs were written. It is considered to have been the center of the
American music industry that dominated the pop charts in the early 1960s.
What is Brill Building as a genre? Right Ans - A subgenre of pop music
originating from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams
of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols in
the early 1960s. The term has also become a catch-all for the period in which
those songwriting teams flourished. In actuality, most hits of the mid 1950s
and early 1960s were written elsewhere.[7]
What was the Brill Building's most important label? Right Ans - Aldon
Music
,When was Aldon Music created and by who? Right Ans - In 1958 by Don
Kirshner and Al Nevins
Who did Aldon Music hire? Right Ans - Young singers and song writers to
write romantic songs in an attempt to try to corner the teen market
Songs were designed for teens and lyrics weren't what? (teen market)
Right Ans - Deep
Although the young song writers and singers wrote the songs for the Teen
Market, who generally recorded the songs? Right Ans - Professionals
In the teen market, what was the shift in control? Right Ans - Away from
some of the artist and back to the producers.
The teen idol showed a dichotomy between which singers? Right Ans - Bad
boy Elvis and good boy Pat Boone
In cornering the female teenage demographic, both independent and major
labels release what? Right Ans - Good looking boy albums
What was the most important thing in the good looking boy albums (The Teen
Idol)? Right Ans - Image was the most important thing and the men were
groomed to play the part so they looked good.
What were the Teen Idol songs like? Right Ans - Extremely innocent about
romance
Who was considered the first big artist that manufactured teen idols? Right
Ans - Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon started as a what? Right Ans - TrumpetPlayer
Who reinvented himself as a clean-cut, pretty boy surfer? Right Ans -
Frankie Avalon
What was Frankie Avalon's first #1 hit? When was it released? Right Ans -
Venus in 1959
, Venus Right Ans - Frankie Avalon
His first #1 hit
1959
Teen Idol
Crooning vocal style
Begins with drums, latin-style bass line, autoharp backup vocals
Bobby Vinton Right Ans - Vinton's sentimental balladeering and orchestral,
middle-of-the-road arrangements were a throwback to a decade earlier,
before rock & roll had found its mass market.
Not pushing buttons
Wanted to lead a big band but found his success in singing
First # 1 hit in 1962 Roses are Red
The Beatles and the British Invasion dampened his stardom, mostly timing
was an issue, 28 top 40 hits
What did Bobby Vinton originally aspire to lead? Where does he find success?
Right Ans - Vinton originally aspired to lead a big band, Jazz.
Found more success in group singing.
What dampened Bobby Vinton's Stardom? Right Ans - The Beatles and the
ensuing British Invasion
How many top 40 hits did Bobby Vinton have? Right Ans - 28
Roses are Red Right Ans - Bobby Vinton
1962
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