Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

The music industry - especially major labels - ultimately embraced the MP3 format by supporting services like iTunes.

Competition from TV in the 1950s helped the radio and recording industries become allies.

In the 1940s, _____________________ originated as magnetized strands.

Unlike Edison's phonograph, Emile Berliner's gramophone played flat disks.

Sometimes called the first integrationist music, rock and roll blurred all sorts of cultural, class, and geographic boundaries.

In 1958, ______ allowed for the recording of two separate tracks of sound, which could be mixed together.

Over the last century, the music industry ______.

TV host Ed Sullivan promoted the career of the Beatles, but he considered the Rolling Stones "bad boys."

Under the compromise reached by CBS and RCA in 1953, the standard for record singles became the ______ format.

Universal Music Group controls nearly 20 percent of the U.S. market share of the recording industry.

In the 1950s, songs recorded or performed by musicians who did not originally write or perform the music, were called _________________________; they were an attempt by white producers and artists to capitalize on popular songs by blacks.

How did sound recording survive the coming of radio?

_________________________ is a style of music that depicts the hardships of urban life and sometimes glorifies the violent style of street gangs.

The album that broke grunge music into the American mainstream was ______.

In the 1950s, disc jockey Alan Freed attempted to make rock-and-roll music more acceptable to mainstream audiences by ______.

The term ______ refers to the economic situation in which a few firms dominate an industry.

Established music artist Amanda Palmer built her online community and sells music directly to fans through her personal Web site.

Which of the following is not one of the ways record companies, composers, and recording artists make their money?

An A&R (artist & repertoire) agent typically ______.

____, was drafted into the Army.