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70's and 80's music history

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was there a lot more of in the 1970's?

a)

classical music

b)

new music genres

c)

digital music

2.

What is the style of rock that started in the 1970's with shouting, loud guitars, and a rebellious anti-authority message?

a)

disco

b)

classical

c)

pop rock

d)

punk rock

3.

What was the first commercially successful rap song called?

a)

Rapper's Delight

b)

Ice Ice Baby

c)

Rock Box

d)

Rapture

4.

What does MTV stand for?

a)

Make True Videos

b)

Mint Turkey Velveeta

c)

Music Television

d)

MCDonalds To Video

5.

What new genre of music really took off in the 1980's?

a)

disco

b)

boy bands

c)

hiphop

6.

Why were there more genres of music in the 1970's than before?

a)

No one listened to music much before the 1970's

b)

record companies realized they made more money when they marketed to specific audiences

c)

New technology made music more affordable for people to buy

7.

In which decade did music videos suddenly become very important?

a)

1960's

b)

1970's

c)

1980's

d)

1990's

8.

This was a new instrument that really took off in the 1980's

a)

the saxophone

b)

the piano

c)

the violin

d)

the synthesizer

9.

Some early hip hop DJ's that influenced rap were (there are 2)

a)

Grandmaster Flash

b)

Kool Herc

c)

Mr. Busy Bee

d)

Shoemaster Shoe

10.

"hippies" refer to a music and lifestyle popular in the 1980's

a)

True

b)

False

11.

This decade is sometimes referred to as the "decade of excess" meaning that things were over done and over the top.

a)

1960's

b)

1970's

c)

1980's

d)

1990's

12.

This decade is well known for roller skating and disco music (but there is a lot more music than just disco)

a)

1960's

b)

1970's

c)

1980's

d)

1990's

13.

What is the name of the music movement from Seattle in the 1990's that had distorted guitars, gravelly vocals, and controversial lyrics?

a)

Punk

b)

Disco

c)

Grunge

d)

K-Pop

14.

What was the name of the band that had the first video played on MTV?

a)

The Buggles

b)

The Wiggles

c)

The Beatles

d)

The Jackson 5

15.

True or False- Music videos became mainstream after the launch of MTV in the 1980s.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The first broadcast of MTV compared the new television channel to what other major historical event?

a)

The Revolutionary War

b)

The moon landing

c)

the discovery of the atom

d)

the bombing of Pearl Harbour

17.

A culture that is opposite from or against the mainstream culture is called....

a)

counterculture

b)

anti-culture

c)

misculture