Music 1520 Final Exam Study Guide
(for the Mon/Wed 6pm on-campus course only)

Note: This is not a review sheet—it is a study guide that tells you what to focus on for your advance preparation for the final exam


Be sure you have completed the E-Workbook assignments for Chapters 1-9
(you will not see the link to the final exam unless all your other work is done and submitted for grading).

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1. The final exam must be completed in its eLearning quiz assessment by Monday, April 20.
- It will be available in eLearning (under Assessments>Quizzes)
from Monday April 13 (8am Eastern U.S. Time) through Monday April 20 (11:59pm Eastern U.S. Time)


2. This final exam is openbook, but it is strictly timed (you have 2 hours to complete it)
- You can use the online textbook chapters, class notes, etc., but do not use Wikipedia/internet sources, and do not work with other people during the exam. You will not have time to look up all the answers during this exam, so you need to prepare the material below in advance.

3. You get only one (1) attempt at this exam (no resets for any reason, no redos to raise your grade)

4. eLearning does not an cannot lose or change your answers—"losing your power" or "losing your internet connection" while taking this exam does not do anything to the questions you answered.

5. eLearning keeps a permanent non-destructible record of everything you do: every time you log in, where you logged in from, what time you logged in, how long you spent, what you worked on, what you answered, etc.

6. I will not begin calculating grades until the end of final exam week, so I cannot tell you anything about your grade until final course grades are posted on Monday, April 27:

7. Do not contact me asking me to raise your grade or give you additional extra credit
- I do not negotiate grades with students for any reason

- Your final course grades will be based solely on the number of total points you accumulate as compared to the grade cutoffs in the syllabus (there is no curve or rounding up)

Distribution of Final Course Grades:

A      =940-1000 points

BA   = 890-939 points

B      = 840-889 points

CB   = 790-839 points

C      = 740-789 points

DC   = 690-739 points

D      = 600-689 points

E      = 599 or below (59.9% or lower)


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This Final Exam is COMPREHENSIVE (it covers Chapter 1-9 and all video shown in class and posted on eLearning).

The final exam is worth 360 possible points (72 questions--each correct answer is worth 5 points)
- 8 sets of "matching" questions (5 questions in each set)
- 32 "Multiple choice" or "True/False questions

Each student will be given a random selection of questions based on the material specified below—no two students will get the same exact exam.

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Here are the items you should study:

I. Be able to match any artist/group/person/place listed below to the style they impacted:
- '50s Rockabilly
- '50s Doo-Wop
- '60s Folk-Rock
- '60s Soul
- '60s Psychedelic Rock
- Late-'60s punk predecessor
- '60s orchestral "art rock"
- '70s Corporate Rock
- '70 arena rock
- '70s rock theatre
- Punk
- Hardcore
- Grunge
- Disco
- Rap/Hip-hop

- James Brown, Aretha Franklin,
- Big Brother & The Holding Co., Cream, Jimi Hendrix
- Dion & and The Belmonts
- The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan
- Carl Perkins, Sam Phillips
- The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed)
- The Moody Blues
- David Bowie, Alice Cooper
- Elton John
- KISS
- X (also know who their famous producer was)
- The Patti Smith Group, The Sex Pistols (also know who their manager was)
- Nirvana, Pearl Jam
- The Village People; The Bee Gees
- Run-D.M.C., Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Public Enemy
- CBGB

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II. Know the original artist/band who made each song famous:
- "I Just Wanna Make Love To You"
- "Rock Around the Clock":
- "Surfin' USA"
- "Can't Buy Me Love"
- "Sunshine of Your Love"
- "Psycho Killer"
- "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"
- "Get up, Stand Up"
- "Every Breath You Take"
- "Whip It"
- "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
- "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This"
- "Justify My Love"
- "Born In the USA"
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
- "Walk This Way" (know who collaborated on this famous song)
- "Fight The Power"
- "The Message"

- "School's Out"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Fixin'-To-Die-Rag"
- "Piece of My Heart"
- "Paranoid"

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III. Be able to match each of these to their description:
- Malcolm McLaren
- Alan Freed
- Dick Clark
- Sir George Martin
- Les Paul
- Ruth Brown
- Bob Marley
- George Clinton
- Bill Graham
- Ray Manzurek
- Ahmet Ertegun
- Berry Gordy, Jr.
- Tina Turner (know what her real name is)
- Alice Cooper (know what his real name is)
- Monterey Pop Festival
- Isle of Wight
- Altamont
- Woodstock
- Haight-Ashbury
- The Ramones
- The New York Dolls (know who their manager was)
- Johnny Rotten (know his real name and who his manager was)

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IV. Be able to match each of these to their band (or to another member of that band):
- Grace Slick
- Janis Joplin
- Eric Clapton
- Jimmy Page
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Anna Mae Bullock
- Chuck D
- Joseph Saddler
- Kurt Cobain
- Boy George
- Darryl McDaniels

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V. Other things to know:
People associated with Atlantic Records:
- Ahmet Ertegun, Aretha, Franklin, Ray Charles, Leiber & Stoller (songwriters)

People associated with Motown Records:
- Berry Gordy Jr., Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye

- Best-selling musical artist from 1955-1984 was Elvis Presley
- Best-selling of just the 1970s was Stevie Wonder
- Best-selling of just the 1980s was Michael Jackson

Important Rock deaths (know how each dies and in what year)
- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison
- John Lennon
- Marvin Gaye

Know what year the Kent State University shootings occurred

Richard Hell (with the band "Television")-- known for his torn "T-shirt" style

Punk, Disco, Reggae, Rap all started in the 1970s

Punk began in New York City at CBGB

Rock-music benefit concerts of the 80s
- Band Aid, Live Aid (Bob Geldof)

- USA For Africa ("We Are The World"-by Michael Jackson/Lionel Ritchie; Quincy Jones, producer)

- Led Zeppelin [Jimmy Page] ("Stairway to Heaven"--most requested song in rock radio history)

- Know that Jim Morrison was heavily influenced by beat poetry (Ginsberg, etc.

- In 1967, "acid rock" rose on the charts because of underground FM radio (wasn't played on AM radio—pop stations)