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Unit 7 Music
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1949 who made up 1/3 of the record buying population? | People under the age of 21 |
| What was the shift in the era to? | Big Band Era to A Set of Romantic Songs |
| How was the microphone used during this time? | To create a sense of intimacy |
| What was the change in how crooning was described? | Shifted from Exaggerated Style of singing and performance to This Sweeter style of singing |
| What was the Practice of Payola? | Record Companies paying the disc jockeys to put certain songs on heavy rotation |
| Who started the Top 40 Radio Programming? | Todd Stortz (DJ in Nebreska) |
| When did the Top 40 Radio Programming start? | In developed in the early 1950's |
| How did the idea for the Top 40 Radio Programming start? | It started from trends of teenagers playing songs repeatedly on jukeboxes then applied that same concept to radio programming |
| What piece of technology created post WW2 allowed artists to re-record over unsatisfactory parts of a previous recording an invoke overdubbing | Magnetic Tape |
| When did Columbia Records introduce Battle of the Speeds? | In 1948 |
| Which company introduced Battle of the Speeds? | Columbia Records |
| What is the process of overdubbing describe? | The adding of an additional layer of sound to a recording |
| Which song is an example of Overdubbing? | The Tennessee Waltz by Patti Page |
| What is a Battle of the Speeds Record disk? | A 12inch long-playing disc that you could record over 20 mins of music on each side of the disk |
| Were records post-WW2 made of Vinyl? | Yes |
| What was the benefit of records being made of Vinyl post WW2 | More durable and less noisy compared to shellac records |
| When was the first commercial broadcast of FM radio? | 1939 |
| What was the ratio of FM stations to AM stations by 1949? | 700 FM stations: 1,000 AM stations |
| What was the piece of technology that allowed people to stack a set of singles and pre program recordings? | 45rpm single |
| Which record introduced a 45rpm single? | RCA |
| What was the benefit of FM Radio? | Better Sound Quality, and it wasn't subject to electrical disturbances |
| What was the biggest technology that had the most profound influence on American culture? | Television |
| When and where was Television introduced? | 1933 at the New York World Fair |
| Who introduced television? | RCA |
| Tin Pan Alley associated the | Song to the Composer |
| Big Band Era associated the | Song to the Band/Leader of Band |
| Post War associated the | Song with the Singer |
| What does the term Tempo Rubato mean? | Borrowed time (speeding or slowing the song) |
| What does the term Coda mean? | Concluding section of a song |
| What was the earliest commercially successful version of R&B was known as? | Jump Blues |
| What was the most successful R&B Band? | Tympani five |
| Which artist was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress? | Muddy Waters |
| Who were two successful women in R&B? | Ruth Brown & Big Mama Thronton |
| Who sold the most country and Western records of any female singer of the 1950's | Patti Page |
| What was Honky-Tonk Music known as? | Hard Country or beer-drinking music |
| Who created a mix of Honky-Tonk music and Western Swing? | Hank Thompson |
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