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mass media ch.9
Mass Media Chapter 9 quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Genres | Broad thematic categories of media content |
| Authentic Performance | A live performance with an on-site audience |
| Mediated Performance | A performance modified and adjusted for delivery to an audience by mass media |
| Black Music | Folk genre from American black slave experience |
| Rhythm and Blues | Distinctive style of black music that took form in 1930 |
| Hillbilly Music | Folk genre from rural Appalachia, Southern white experience |
| Rockabilly | A splicing of rock 'n' roll and hillbilly, used for early rock music |
| Rock 'n' Roll | A popular dance music characterized by a heavy beat, simple melodies, and guitar, bass and drum instrumentation, usually on a 12-bar structure |
| Sam Phillips | A Memphis music producer who recorded and promoted early rock music |
| Rap | Dance music with intense bass, rhyming riffs, the lyrics often with anti-establishment defiance |
| James Gordon Bennett | New York newspaper publisher in 1830's; first to assign reporters to sports regularly |
| Joseph Pulitzer | New York newspaper publisher in 1880's; organized the first newspaper sports department |
| KDKA | Pittsburgh radio station that pioneered sports broadcasting in 1920's |
| Henry Luce | Magazine publisher known for Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and others |
| Roone Arledge | ABC television executive responsible for Wide World of Sports in 1961 |
| Loss Leader | A product sold at a loss to attract customers |
| Ulysses | James Joyce novel banned in the United States until 1093 court decision |
| Obscenity | Sexually explicit media depictions that the government can ban |
| Pornography | Sexually explicit depictions that are protected from government bans |
| Miller Standard | Current U.S. Supreme Court definition of sexually explicit depictions that are protected by the First Amendment from government bans |
| Sam Ginsberg | Figure in U.S. Supreme Court decision to bar sales of pornography to children |
| George Carlin | Comedian whose satires on vulgarities prompted rules on radio programming to shield children |
| Pacifica Case | U.S. Supreme Court ruling to keep indecency off over-air broadcast stations at times when children are likely to be listening or watching |
| Andre Bazin | French film critic who devised the term auteur for significant cutting edge filmmakers |
| Auteur | A filmmaker recognized for significant and original treatments |
| Studio System | A production-line movie system devised by Hollywood in the 1920's |
| Harlequin | Canadian publisher known for romances with cliched characters, settings and themes; the term is applied generically to pulp romances |
| Pulp Fiction | Quickly and inexpensively produced easy-to-read short novels |
| High Art | Requires sophisticated taste to be appreciated |
| Low Art | Can be appreciated by almost everybody |
| Elitist | Mass media should gear to sophisticated audiences |
| Kitsch | Pejorative word for trendy, trashy, low art |
| Populist | Mass media should seek largest possible audiences |
| Dwight Macdonald | Said all pop art is kitsch |
| Herbert Gans | Said social, economic and intellectual levels of audiene coincide |
| High-, Middle- and low-culture audiences | Continuum identified by Herbert Gans |
| Highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow | Levels of media content sophistication that coincide with audience tastes |
| Popular Art | Art that tries to succeed in the marketplace |
| Pop Art Revisionism | The view that pop art has inherent value |
| Susan Sontag | Saw cultural, social value in pop art |
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