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45-Rpm Disc is the record format developed in the late 1940s by RCA .

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Social Music is music that people _______ for one another in the home or other social settings.

Play

Sing

Both a & b

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Both a & b

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A style of radio programming designed to appeal to a narrow, specific audience is known as ______ .

Format Radio

Social Music

Both a & b

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Format Radio

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Country Music originally referred to as hillbilly or “old-timey” music, this genre evolved out of Irish and Scottish folk music .

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Rap Music emerged from clubs where DJs _______ different records and sounds and then spoke (or rapped) over the top.

Played

Remixed

Both a & b

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that originated in the ________ that features four main elements .

1970s and 1984s

1960s and 1974s

1970s and 1980s

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: 1970s and 1980s

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Disco is the name of the heavily produced techno club dance music of the _____.

1973s,

1974s,

1971s,

1970s,

Answer

Correct Answer: 1970s,

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The people who put together the right mix of songs, songwriters, technicians, and performers to create an album are known as _______ .

Producers

Disco

Hip-Hop

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Producers

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Concept Album is an album by a solo artist or group that contains related songs on a common theme or even a story .

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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British Invasion is the British take on classic American rock ’n’ roll, blues, and R&B transformed rock ’n’ roll and became internationally popular in the ______ .

1964s

1962s

1961s

1960s

Answer

Correct Answer: 1960s

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Girl Groups Musical groups composed of several women singers who harmonize together.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Which of the correct statements about cover ?

Songs recorded (or covered) by someone other than the original artist. In the 1950s

Musical groups composed of several women singers who harmonize together. Groups such as the Shirelles

An album by a solo artist or group that contains related songs on a common theme or even a story

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Songs recorded (or covered) by someone other than the original artist. In the 1950s

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Race Records is a term used by the recording industry prior to ______ .

1948

1945

1944

1949

Answer

Correct Answer: 1949

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A style of music popularized on radio that combined elements of white hillbilly music and Black rhythm and blues is known as ______ .

Podcast

MP3

Rock ’N’ Roll

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Rock ’N’ Roll

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A standard for compressing music from CDs/other digital recordings into computer files that can be easily exchanged on the internet is known as ____.

Podcast

MP3

Rock ’N’ Roll

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: MP3

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Podcasts sometimes contain ______ content as well.

Video

Photos

Both a & b

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Video

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Streaming Audio is audio programming transmitted over the internet.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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A radio personality, such as Howard Stern, who attracts listeners by making outrageous and offensive comments on the air is known as _____ .

Satellite Radio

HD Radio

Shock Jock

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Shock Jock

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The radio service is provided by digital signal broadcast from a communications satellite known as _______ .

Satellite Radio

HD Radio

Shock Jock

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Satellite Radio

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HD Radio sometimes also referred to as high-definition radio.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Terrestrial Radio is an AM and FM broadcast radio station.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The federal agency charged with regulating telecommunications, including

_________ .

Radio

Television broadcasting.

Both a & b

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Both a & b

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Soap Operas are serialized daytime dramas targeted primarily at women.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Golden Age of Radio is defined as the period from the late 1920s until the, ______ during which radio was the dominant medium for home entertainment.

1948s

1946s

1943s

1940s

Answer

Correct Answer: 1940s

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A company that provides common programming to a large group of broadcast stations is known as _______ .

Golden Age of Radio

Network

Soap Operas

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Network

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Radio Music Box Memo David Sarnoff’s _______ plan that outlined how radio could be used as a popular mass medium.

1914

1913

1911

1915

Answer

Correct Answer: 1915

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Guglielmo Marconi’s name for his point-to-point communication tool that used radio waves to transmit messages , this statement is related to _______ .

Digital Recording

Analog Recording

Wireless Telegraph

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Wireless Telegraph

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An electromechanical method of recording in which a sound is translated into analogous electrical signals is known as ______ .

Digital Recording

Analog Recording

Wireless Telegraph

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Analog Recording

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_______ used to create CDs—that involves storing music in a computer-readable format known as binary information.

Digital Recording

Analog Recording

Wireless Telegraph

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Digital Recording

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Telegraph is the first system for using wires to send messages at a distance; invented by ______ in 1844.

Thomas Edison

Samuel Morse

Dr.Nazia Anwar

Emile Berliner

Answer

Correct Answer: Samuel Morse

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Non-Notated Music is music such as a folk song or jazz solo that does not exist in written form.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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A combination of technologies that allowed recordings to reproduce music more accurately is known as ______ .

High Fidelity

Notated Music

Telegraph

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: High Fidelity

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Gramophone is a machine invented by _______ that could play pre-recorded sound on flat discs rather than cylinders.

Thomas Edison

Samuel Morse

Dr.Nazia Anwar

Emile Berliner

Answer

Correct Answer: Emile Berliner

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Phonograph is an early sound-recording machine invented by _______ , the recorded material was played back on a cylinder.

Thomas Edison

Jowl medison

Dr.Nazia Anwar

Emile Berliner

Answer

Correct Answer: Thomas Edison

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Compact Disc is a digital recording medium that came into common use in the early ______ .

1988s.

1987s.

1983s.

1980s.

Answer

Correct Answer: 1980s.

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Long-Playing Record is a record format introduced by Columbia Records in ________ .

1944

1946

1942

1948

Answer

Correct Answer: 1948

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Long-Playing Record is a record format introduced by Columbia Records in ________ .

1944

1946

1942

1948

Answer

Correct Answer: 1948

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