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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Rock, Blues, Country, Jazz
B Rapping, DJing, Graffiti, Breakdancing
C Rhyming, Stealing, Running, Dancing
D The Head, The Hands, The Heart and the Feet
Question #2
A New York and New Orleans
B New York and Compton
C The Queensbridge Houses and Magnolia Houses
D The Queensbridge Houses and The Bronx
Question #3
A Because the kids in the Suburbs had to take the bus to the Bronx and as a result shows got shorter
B Because dancing was made illegal in most Suburban towns
C Because the Suburbs had more dance clubs and as a result Hip Hop became more party -oriented
D Because the Suburban middle-class kids had different ideas of striving and different social concerns than the impoverished ones from the Bronx
Question #4
A MTV and Samplers
B Live Bands and Turntables
C The Sampler and Ultimate Breaks and Beats
D The Crossfader and the Turntable
Question #5
A The Bomb Squad liked danceable beats and Rick Rubin liked slow ballads
B It’s a trick question – they are both the same person
C The Bomb Squad used hyper-dense textures but Rick Rubin used bare, rock-like ones.
D Rick Rubin liked to speed music up to make it high in pitch but the Bomb Squad liked to slow it down.
Question #6
A Russell Simmons thought that it would be easer to market a group of people rather than a single rapper.
B Their image does not connect at all – Simmons thought that Hip Hop needed to appear more “white” to sell and Public Enemy was too “black”
C Russell Simmons thought that Hip Hop in the early 80s had become “white” and he felt that a “black” consciousness and image was the best way to sell Hip Hop to America.
D Public Enemy wanted to make dance music, as did Russell Simmons , but the record company executives wanted something they could sell to adults
Question #7
A They would have to listen to hundred of hours of obscure records
B They would have to commission songs from bands-for-hire
C They would have to hire a band to make a recording of a current hit.
D The would have to pay hundreds of dollars for rare records
Question #8
A The drum sounds could not be changed
B There were expensive
C The drum beats could sound stiff
D All of the above
Question #9
A Because he chopped away at conformity
B Because he liked an even beat, like someone chopping wood
C Because he was chopping away at the load he took to pay for the sampler
D Because he chopped little pieces out of one recording and put them together to make another
Question #10
A The sampling time was too short for any functional breakbeat so he recorded them at a way faster speed and then slowed them down for playback.
B He could only afford sampling time for a few hours in the studio so he got a job as a janitor in the building so he could get in at night.
C He only had battery life for 15 minutes of sampling time so he cut a lamp cord to extend the life.
D The sampling time was so long that it was difficult to fill up all of the space and he started recording more than one song in a row.
Question #11
A The songs were really long, but not too long
B The rappers were all original Bronx gang members who had studied pop music trends
C If we think back to the early live recordings of Hip Hop we hear the same kind of bare instrumentation and the guitar riffs attracted rock fans to the music.
D The rappers recycled old party raps but added really lush string arrangements.
Question #12
A They both use nothing by synthesizers
B The entire musical accompaniment for both effectively consists of a rock drum beat and a guitar riff
C They both are extremely complex and highly arranged
D They both use a full string section