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CHAPTER 10 1975–1980, Mainstream Rock, Punk,
and New Wave
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CHAPTER 10: Mainstream Rock, Punk, and New Wave
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Why is advertising on radio necessary to keep a radio station in business?
a. Corporations threaten to buy up FM radio stations.
b. Advertising generates revenue because listeners tune in for free.
c. Disc jockeys no longer have control over what music they can play.
d. Songs on the radio are shorter in length, which allows time for advertisements.
2. What designated Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive! a “big album”?
a. The album was released by a record company owned by a multinational corporation.
b. The album had multiple number-one hits.
c. The album was the longest-running number-one album on the American charts.
d. The album sold copies in the millions rather than the thousands.
3. Stevie Nicks was a singer for which successful 1970s rock band?
a. Fleetwood Mac c. Blondie
b. Heart d. Starship
4. Which former Beatle formed Wings?
a. George Harrison c. Paul McCartney
b. Ron Wood d. John Lennon
5. “More Than a Feeling” is representative of which band’s musical style?
a. Foreigner c. Journey
b. Boston d. the Clash
6. How are Foreigner’s early albums influenced by progressive rock?
a. The songs are lengthy and contain various musical styles.
b. The lyrics feature an ironic tone.
c. Lou Gramm sings with a blues-influenced sound.
d. There is a prominent use of keyboards.
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7. Which band had a successful cover of the Kinks’ “You Really Got Me”?
a. Van Halen c. Boston
b. Cheap Trick d. Rush
8. Rush is an example of
a. a blues-influenced rock band.
b. new wave.
c. late ’70s corporate rock.
d. a progressive rock–influenced band.
9. Freddie Mercury was the lead singer for which band?
a. ELO c. Rush
b. Queen d. Foreigner
10. Which singer-songwriter promoted fundamentalist-style Christianity on late ’70s albums?
a. Paul Simon c. Bob Dylan
b. Jackson Browne d. Billy Joel
11. Jackson Browne started his career
a. during the early ’70s singer-songwriter movement.
b. as a recording engineer for the Beatles.
c. in Bob Dylan’s backup band.
d. in the early ’70s Southern California country rock scene.
12. How does Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” feature musical progressive rock touches?
a. It incorporates harmonized guitar parts and demonstrates classical music sensibility.
b. It is long, with different stylistic sections.
c. It includes synthesizer arpeggios during the chorus.
d. It features blues-based guitar parts.
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12. Lou Reed was involved with which group from the mid-1960s until 1970?
13. Which band featured Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten?
14. Which was the most successful group out of CBGB?
15. How was Freddie Mercury’s death significant to the rock community?
MATCHING
Match the item to the description below.
a. guitarist for Queen
b. avant-garde musician in the Velvet Underground
c. label applied to music released by ’70s mainstream record companies
d. lead singer from Journey
e. virtuoso guitarist
f. bar in New York that booked many punk bands
g. a relabeled term for “punk”
h. group with vocals by Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson that played with girl-group
stereotypes
i. Bruce Springsteen song
j.
song by the Sex Pistols
1. “corporate rock”
2. Steve Perry
3. Eddie Van Halen
4. Brian May
5. “Born to Run”
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6. John Cale
7. Max’s Kansas City
8. new wave
9. B-52s
10. “Anarchy in the UK”
ESSAY
1. Discuss how business practices in the music industry changed in the 1970s and how this affected
some of the music that was produced during this time. Be sure to address musical styles and bands
associated with mainstream music during the 1970s. Which musical styles were prevalent, and what
connections did this music have to the earlier styles of the 1960s?
ANS:
answers vary
PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
2. Discuss how the singer-songwriter genre developed through the 1970s. Which musicians continued to
have success in the style into the latter half of the 1970s? How did the musical styles change? Which
other musicians had success as singer-songwriters? Be sure to name specific musicians, bands, and
musical examples.
ANS:
answers vary
PTS: 1 DIF: Difficult
