final review 09/12/2007 16:02:00

90% of what he says is the test

1st section is matchin… terms and names

• tin pan alley
• black popular music pre 1955
• country pre 1955
• 1952-1958 rock and roll
20 of these
examples: jump band, race records, anglo American ballads,
blackboard jungle, payola and sweet bands and some
artists(very obvious)

tin pan alley – know jews are important. Terms = vaudeville, aaba form,
sweet bands, showboat,
• know 2nd generation of tin pan alley – focus on composer and third
generation – focus on performer

early rock and roll - 1952-1958

• attracted biracial audience
• musicans were from south
• age identified music
• music of an oral tradition with ameture level of improv
• heavy dependence on blues
• heterogeneous
• dance music with rhythmic ostinatos
• text were realistic
• where payola scandal occurred – just know when it occurred

-pat boone was teen idol, not elvis, famous for teenage love songs
-brill building in nyc, where song writing occurred, mostly teenage love
songs
**** a distinctive characteristic of all rock and roll is that it has rhythmic
ostinatos (like

- beatles concept albulm – sergeant peppers – had a variety of song forms,

accompaniments and texts. Had a single unifying concept, used
sophisticated electronic (equiptment) sound systems in a studio

- matching then multiple choice then matching again:

• Motown, rock and roll, white commercialism, folk revival, soul of
1960s, rock and roll (british rock and acid rock)

Motown – intended for all but made for blacks. Nickname = hitsville. Music
you would hear in car radio. Smokey was a lyricists. Diana ross, marvin
gaye, stevie wonder and Michael Jackson. Holland-dosier-holland. Just need
to associate

white commercialism (1958-1964) – brill building occurred. Beach boys. The

word teenager become popular as well as the theme of puppy love

folk revival/folk rock – used anglo American ballads (similar to country

western). Joan biaz, woody guthry, music heard at coffee houses on
university campuses. Used songs of urban protest

soul of 1960’s – james brown, food as sex metaphor, use of a vamp, soul
sista brown suga

rock and roll 1964-1970 (british invasion acid rock) - underground

newspaper, performances were lengthy and extended, woodstock

last section – gives you text of popuar songs and you have to decide what
tradition they are from. Most of them are easy and only 9 of them

listening = 8 examples
• 1st question – tradition?
 • next 5 are yes or no questions
• 150 questions

don’t need to know about musicians, just traditions

6 or 7 questions about primary audience for each tradition

musicians to know
• tpa – cole porter (called gentile pornagrapher), george gerswin.
Primary audience = mainstream teens and adults
• cw – carter family… know about descant singing, yodel, dropped
beats!!!! And nasal sound ideal. Don’t need to know listening
audience
• golden age of rr 1952 – jerry lee lewis and chuck berry primary
audience = African American teenagers
• white commercialism – 58-64 – primary listening audence=
mainstream teens and adults. Know beach boys
• folk revival – joan biaz, woody guthry and bob Dylan. Audience =
libral youth at amer universities
• Motown (black commercialization) – Holland, smokey, Diana, stevie,
marvin and Michael**** asked twice about it on test. Audience =
African American teens…ask buds about this********
• soul – james brown, ray charles, Aretha, audience = mainstream
teenagers and adults
• rr 1964-1972 – bob Dylan also associated here, Woodstock, idea of
free speech, drug usage, audiene = libral youth at American
universities. Know bob Dylan influenced text of rr to become more
serious!!!!

- following bands are based in cali – Jefferson airplane, beach boys, the
byrds and the doors
- following are rr producers - brian Wilson, phil spector and george martin
- following participated in Woodstock- joan biez, the who, Janis Joplin and
jimmy Hendrix
musical examples – 8 examples from 8 different trsditions, beatles
Woodstock, r and b, country western, white, black, folk rock, soul, tin pan
alley,
1. Folk rival – bob Dylan – like a rollingstone
2. Tin Pan Alley – you are te promise kiss of spring time – Jerome kern
3. 16 candles
4. rhythm and blues – wenonnie harris, rockin tonight
5. chuck berry “Johnny be food”
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