Exam 4: Sound Recording and Popular Music

Thomas Edison invented the ____, a device that recorded and played back sound.

Chuck Berry was ____ for gun possession.

According to the American Library Association, what is a limitation of trying to protect children from inappropriate material on the Internet?

The first congressional hearings on radio payola started soon after the quiz-show scandals in television.

Which of the following large corporations is not one of the major firms controlling national and international music distribution today?

Little Richard became the first African American artist to chart higher with his own song than a white cover artist because ______.

Audiotape was developed by the Japanese after World War II.

Music talent scouts, or _________________________, discover, develop, and sometimes manage performers.

Punk rock emerged in the 1970s partly to protest the commercialism of the recording industry.

In the 1920s, many radio stations went off the air because they couldn't afford to pay for the rights to broadcast recorded music.

Thousands of lawsuits were filed against online file-sharing services. What was the result?

Jerry Lee Lewis was exiled from the industry when he married his young ____.

Bing Crosby is considered a ____, or a singer of "pop" standards.

Physical recordings made as recently as 2011 accounted for nearly 25 percent of U.S. music sales.

Which of the following statements about hip-hop music is true?

A major difference between sound recordings made by Emile Berliner and those made by Thomas Edison was that ______.

Until the invention of digital recording, records were made using an analog recording process.

The music industry has successfully hindered peer-to-peer (P2P) systems, which enable free music file-sharing.

Little Richard performed as a ____, which blurred the lines of gender identity and sexual orientation.

Independent labels produce only about 2 percent of all recordings.