EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE (for MUS 1520 on-campus course only):

Music 1520: Rock & Roll

Exam 1 Study Items


60 questions--each question is worth 4 points  (for a maximum of 240 possible points toward your final course grade total).

The format of the test will be:
...Matching/Multiple Choice (match artist to record label, group, song or style)
...Matching/Multiple Choice (match terms/concepts to their definition/person)
...True/False (from text readings, class lectures, and videos)

 

Here are the general items you should study:

General study recommendations:
- Do the online quizzes for Chapters 1, 2 and 3 in the MUS1520 eLearning Assessment>Quizzes section (requires an activated MUS1520 user license)
- A practice  "review quiz" of terms from the first online quiz/assessment assignments is also available in the MUS1520 eLearning Assessment>Quizzes section (requires an activated MUS1520 user license).

Be able to match an artist to their band/group:
- The Beatles (Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Ringo Starr)
- The Rolling Stones(Jaggar, Richards)
- The Hollies (Nash)
- The Who (Townshend, Daltrey)
- The Drifters (Ben E. King) – '50s doo-wop group with Ben E. King

Be able to match an artist to their STYLE category:
- early Blues (Ma Rainey, Robert Johnson)
- 40s-50s Blues/R & B (Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown)
- 50s rockabilly (Carl Perkins, Elvis, Bill Haley& His Comets, Buddy Holly, Everly Brothers)
- 50s "Doo-Wop" (The Coasters, The Drifters, Dion and the Belmonts)
- 50s "Teen Idol": (Fabian, Pat Boone, Anka, Sedaka)
- 50s R & B/Rock and Roll (Berry, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chubby Checker)
- 50s/60s "Surf" (Duane Eddy, Dick Dale & His Del-Tones, Ventures, Surfaris, Beach Boys)

For Chapter 1:

Complete and review the online "E-Workbook" assignment for Chapter 1

R & B artists (match to their songs)
-Know Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller (songwriters for Atlantic Records)
-Should be able to recognize these songs/artists:
...Joe Turner ("Shake, Rattle & Roll")
...Louis Jordan ("Caldonia")
...Muddy Waters ("I Got My Mojo Workin'") – R & B singer/guitarist
... Little Richard ("Tutti Frutti", "Lucille")
... Fats Domino ("Blue Monday")
...Chuck Berry ("Maybellene"; "Roll Over Beethoven")

Independent record labels (match to their founders and/or major artists)
-Know the 4 major rockabilly/country artists with Sun records
-Know the 4 main phases of Elvis' career:
...Sun, RCA/Hollywood, Army/Germany, Las Vegas

-Know these songs/artists:
...Carl Perkins ("Blue Suede Shoes")
...Bill Haley ("Rock Around the Clock")
...Buddy Holly ("That'll Be The Day") - Rockabilly electric guitarist
...Everly Bros. ("Bye Bye Love")
...Elvis ("Hound Dog", "Jailhouse Rock")
...Dion and the Belmonts ("Teenager in Love")

What happened to Presley, Holly, Little Richard, Berry, Lewis by 1959
to take them out of the rock 'n' roll scene?

Know Sam Phillips (Founder of Sun Records)
Know what "Race Music" is


For Chapter 2:

Complete and review the online "E-Workbook" assignment for Chapter 2

-Know some of the prominent "Doo wop" groups (primarily Black artists):
...Drifters (featuring Ben E. King)
...Silhouettes
...Coasters
...Dion and The Belmonts (white-Italian doo-wop group)

-Teen Idol artists (match to their songs)
-Know the 4 major record labels of the '60s (RCA, Decca, Columbia, Capitol)
-Know Dick Clark, Don Kirschner, Phil Spector, Alan Freed

-Know Chubby Checker: "The Twist" (written by Hank Ballard)
...according to Dick Clark, "The single most influential song in Rock history"

Surf/Hot-Rod artists (match to their songs)
...Know surf instrumental (Dick Dale & his Del-Tones, The Ventures)
...Know surf vocal (esp. The Beach Boys)
-Know these songs/artists:
...Beach Boys ("Surfer Girl", "I Get Around") ...The Surfaris ("Wipe Out")

Know The Ronettes ('60s girl group/produced by Phil Spector – "Wall of  Sound")


For Chapter 3:

Complete and review the online "E-Workbook" assignment for Chapter 3

Folk-Rock artists (match to their songs)
...Woody Guthrie (the leading folk/protest singer of the 1940s/50s)
Review the critical importance/influence Bob Dylan had on rock (lyrics, esp.)-
...see Time/Life Video 4
-The move of the rock/pop recording industry from New York City to Los Angeles
-Should know these songs by:
... Bob Dylan ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; "Maggie's Farm"; "Like a Rolling Stone", "Blowin' in the Wind")
-Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival (1965)

British Invasion (1964 +) British rock artists (match to their songs and/or their bands)
-Know what "Skiffle" is (Lonnie Donegan)

-Know the first two of The Beatles' 3 career phases and info:
...Early: "Yeah yeah"-style (thru 1964-Example "She Loves You")
...Middle: Socially-conscious lyrics, Dylan/folk influence c.1965-66 ("Norwegian Wood"[uses Sitar]; "Eleanor Rigby" [uses string quartet]; "Yesterday" [uses string quartet]; Rubber Soul and Revolver albums)
...Late: (will be on exam 2) Psychedelic/highly-experimental c. 1967-70 

-Know their original drummer was Pete Best
-Know George Martin's enormous influence on The Beatles;
-Know manager Brian Epstein (p. 27)
-Know The Beatles' US invasion in Feb. 1964
-Know that they simultaneously had the 5 top songs in US in early April '64
-Know their first #1 hit in Britain was "Please, Please Me"; their first #1 hit in the US was "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
-Know they were the first to make a promotional music video ("A Hard Day's Night")
-Know their last live concert was in August 1966 at San Francisco's Candlestick Park (the same year the Beach Boys stopped touring because Brian Wilson has a mental breakdown from stress)

-Know early phase of The Rolling Stones
...More strongly rooted in R & B/Blues/Country & Western influence (esp. Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Hank Williams Sr.)
...From 1964-67 mostly followed trends set by The Beatles; then rougher image; When Beatles began to drift apart c. 1968, the Rolling Stones came into their own
 

-Know the major British "Mersey" (Liverpool) artists of c. 1964-65
... Herman's Hermits (Peter Noone), Gerry & The Pacemakers; Peter & Gordon;

-Know Graham Nash (The Hollies) 

-Know Eric Burdon (The Animals)

Other general information to know:
 

From the "Musical Elements" section of textbook: (pp. 103-105, 112-113)
-Know definitions of rhythm-related terms: "meter", "tempo", "syncopation"
- "Backbeat"-accenting beats 2 and 4 of 4/4 meter (instead of usual beats 1 & 3)
-Know definitions of general harmonic terms:
... "chord", "progression", "consonance" vs. "dissonance"
-Know the standard 8-bar or 12-bar blues pattern (p. 112): I - - - IV- V7 I
 

Other Miscellaneous:

"Cover" tunes (know original artists and those who copied/covered them)

Song Original Artist (Covered By)
"Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On" by Joe Turner (cover: Jerry Lee Lewis)
"Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard (cover: Pat Boone)
"Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins (cover: Elvis)
"Rock Around the Clock" by Sonny Dae (cover: Bill Haley)
"Shake, Rattle and Roll" by Joe Turner (cover: Bill Haley)
"Twist and Shout" by The Isley Brothers (cover: The Beatles)
"The Twist" by Hank Ballard (cover: Chubby Checker)
"I Just Wanna Make Love to You" by Muddy Waters (cover: Rolling Stones)
"Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan (cover: Peter, Paul and Mary)

...Be able to match a performer to their particular group
...Be able to match a song to a particular group

The best-selling artists during the 1950s were (in order):
...#1 Elvis
...#2 Pat Boone

The best-selling artists during the entire 1960s were (in order):
...#1 Elvis
...#2 The Beatles
...#3 The Supremes
...#4 The Rolling Stones