Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

A war among vinyl recording disk formats in the late 1940s and early 1950s resulted in the 45-rpm record format being used exclusively for the release of album music collections.

Streaming music is quickly becoming the format of choice. We are shifting from ownership of music to access to music.

Bing Crosby established himself as one of the first _________________________, or singers of pop standards.

The success of British groups in America in the 1960s led to ______.

How has the way people listen to music changed in the last decade or so? How might those changes affect the kinds of music that artists make? What does that mean for music as a part of culture?

Payola is the practice of record promoters paying deejays to play certain songs on the air.

Which of the following boundaries did rock and roll not blur in the 1950s?

Thomas Edison made his first sound recordings on a cylinder wrapped in tinfoil.

Unauthorized online file sharing is known as __________________.

Which of the following statements about the music industry and the Internet since the year 2000 is true?

Which of the following is true about the MP3 music file format?

Oligopoly is the term for a business situation in which a few firms control most of an industry; film studios and record labels are examples.

Streaming and downloading music have caused independent music labels to lose market shares.

British rock-and-roll groups such as the Beatles drew much of their inspiration from black artists.

The popularity of the jukebox caused record sales to drop sharply in the 1930s.

Briefly explain how rock and roll muddied the waters of the American cultural landscape in the 1950s.

Spotify is a German-based company that debuted in the United States in 2011 to provide streaming services.

In 1958, after audiotape became more accessible, recordings were made on two separate channels (tracks or sounds) and were put to commercial use.

Which of the following does not fall into the category of pop music?

Before rock and roll, the music industry distinguished pop charts-featuring mostly white music-from R&B, or _________________________ charts-featuring mostly black music.