Assignment #6

Read Chapters 32 - 58 including the following summaries.

Fill in the blanks below

E-mail to before 9am, Thursday, May 5.

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1)By the time the Beatles got together with Dylan, they were riding the crest of Beatlemania. The band had scored their first U.S. No. 1 hit, “______,” in January 1964 and appeared on The ______Show for the first time in February.

2)The music that they played had deep American roots. Many of the bands began their careers by covering songs by ______and ______and other rock-and-roll acts.

3)We can trace the beginning of the Beatles back to the summer of 1957, when John Lennon (1940–1980) met Paul McCartney (b. 1942) and soon asked him to join his band, the “______.”

4)The major phase of the Beatles' career lasted just under ______years.

5)For all intents and purposes, it began on June 6, ______, when they auditioned for George Martin, the man who would produce most of their records. It ended on April 10, ______, when Paul McCartney announced that the Beatles had disbanded.

6)The Beatles' musical growth was unparalleled in popular music; the suddenness with which their music matured remains an astounding development. Among the most important reasons for the exceptional quality and appeal of their music are these three:

a)

b)

c)

7) The Beatles' music went through four phases, each lasting about two years:

a) ______: from 1962 to the end of 1964

b)______: 1965–1966

c) ______: late 1966–1967

d) ______: 1968–1970

8) “A Hard Day’s Night” was about ______

9) The Beatles' maturation in the wake of their encounter with Dylan is evident in the albums titled “______” (December 1965), “______” (June 1966), and especially “______+______“ (August 1966). Dylan's influence is evident in the lyrics, which were more meaningful, less teen oriented, and wider ranging in subject matter and tone. It is also evident in the music, although it takes a quite different form.

10) What is Eleanor Rigby about? ______

11) How is Eleanor Rigby unique? ______

12) What is the musical setting for Eleanor Rigby? ______

13) What is a “concept album?” ______

14) In Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in June 1967, there are not only strong contrasts from song to song, but also occasionally within a song, as in “______” and the even more remarkable “______.”

15) Name three songs that indicate Dylan’s influence on the Beatles: ______

16) Name four movies starring the Beatles: ______

17) Describe the Motown Pyramid: ______

18) Name six famous Motown acts: ______

19) Among its most consistent and outstanding features contributing to the Motown Sound were these four: ______

20) Of all the Motown artists, none sang with more emotional intensity than ______(1939–1984). His turbulent life—stormy relationships with his wife and other women, drug and alcohol abuse, and his death at his father's hand—seemed to find expression in his music.

21) The Rolling Stones grew out of a chance encounter in 1960, when ______(b. 1943) saw ______(b. 1943) standing in a train station with an armful of blues records.

21) Name the four Beatles: ______

22) The Who came together as a group in 1964. Vocalist ______(b. 1944), guitarist ______(b. 1945), and bassist ______(1944–2002) had been part of a group called the High Numbers.

23) The Who’s song “______” became the anthem for the “live hard, die young, and don't trust anyone over 30” crowd.

24) In “Won't Get Fooled Again,” Townshend uses the ______as a futuristic rhythm guitar, pitched in a high register instead of the more characteristic mid-range, but providing steady reinforcement of the rock rhythmic layer throughout the song.

24) Although often cited as a seminal heavy metal band, Led Zeppelin ultimately defies categorization. From “______” (1969), the group's first album, it was clear that heavy metal was just one aspect of their musical personality.

25) The guitarist for Led Zeppelin was ______.

26) The vocalist for Led Zeppelin was ______.

27) Three important Heavy Metal bands of the early 1970’s were ______, ______, and ______.

28) There's a certain irony that Motown's most powerful and original talent, and its longest running success story, is in many ways the antithesis of the Motown image and sound. ______is a solo act; most Motown acts were groups.

29) The term ______came into use during the early seventies to identify those solo performers who made personal statements in song. Their songs were typically supported by a subdued, often acoustic, accompaniment that put the vocal line in the forefront.

30) Three important artists of the 1970’s in this style were ______, ______, and ______.

31) What was “Glam Rock?” ______

32) Which artist exemplified Glam Rock? ______

33) The pursuit of ______is just one of the qualities that distinguishes Steely Dan.

34) Although it began as a band, Steely Dan became a popular and critically acclaimed act only after its two creative minds, keyboardist ______(b. 1948) and bassist ______(b. 1950), dissolved the group and retained the name to label their studio-driven brainchild.

35) Describe the music of Steely Dan: ______

36) Describe the lyrics of Steely Dan: ______

37) The dance called the ______was the third of the twentieth-century Latin dance fads, after the tango and the rumba, but the first to develop on American soil.

38) For Latins the “king of the mambo” during the 1950s was ______(1923–2000).