mass media ch. 3

Question 0

Stereo

Answer 0

The recording of two separate channels or tracks of sound.

Question 1

Audiotape

Answer 1

Lightweight magnetized strands of ribbon that make possible sound editing and multiple-track mixing; instruments or vocals can be recorded at one location and later mixed onto a master recording in another studio.

Question 2

Analog Recording

Answer 2

A recording that is made by capturing the fluctuations of the original sound waves and storing those signals on records or cassettes as a continuous stream of magnetism- analogous to the actual sound.

Question 3

Digital Recording

Answer 3

Music recorded and played back by laser beam rather than by needle or magnetic tape.

Question 4

Compacts Discs (CDs)

Answer 4

Playback-only storage disks for music that incorporate pure and very precise digital techniques, thus eliminating noise during recording and editing sessions.

Question 5

MP3

Answer 5

Short for MPEG-1 Layer 3, an advanced type of audio compression that reduces file size, enabling audio to be easily distributed over the Internet and to be digitally transmitted in real time.

Question 6

Pop Music

Answer 6

Popular music that appeals to either a wide cross section of the public or to sizable subdivisions within the larger public based on age, region, or ethnic background; the word pop has also been used as a label to distinguish popular music from classical music.

Question 7

Jazz

Answer 7

An improvisational and mostly instrumental musical form that absorbs and integrates a diverse body of musical styles, including African rhythms, blues, big band, and gospel.

Question 8

Cover Music

Answer 8

Songs recorded or performed by musicians who did not originally write or perform the music; in the 1950s, some white producers and artists capitalized on popular songs by black artists by “covering” them.

Question 9

Rock and Roll

Answer 9

Music that mixes the vocal and instrumental traditions of popular music; it merged the African American influences of urban blues, gospel, and R&B with the white influences of country, folk, and pop vocals.

Question 10

Blues

Answer 10

Originally a kind of black folk music, this music emerged as a distinct category in the early 1900s; it was influenced by African American spirituals, ballads, and work songs in the rural South, and by urban guitar and vocal solos from the 1930s and 1940s.

Question 11

Rhythm and Blues (R&B)

Answer 11

Music that merges urban blues with big-band sounds.

Question 12

Rockabilly

Answer 12

Music that mixes bluegrass and country influences with those of black folk music and early amplified blues.

Question 13

Payola

Answer 13

The unethical (but not always illegal) practice of record promoters paying deejays or radio programmers to favor particular songs over others.

Question 14

Soul

Answer 14

Music that mixes gospel, blues, and urban and southern black styles with slower, more emotional, and melancholic lyrics.

Question 15

Folk Music

Answer 15

Music performed by untrained musicians and passed down through oral traditions; it encompasses a wide range of music, from Appalachian fiddle tunes to the accordion-led zydeco of Louisiana.

Question 16

Folk-Rock

Answer 16

Amplified folk music, often featuring politically overt lyrics; influenced by rock and roll.

Question 17

Punk Rock

Answer 17

Rock music that challenges the orthodoxy and commercialism of the recording business; it is characterized by loud, unpolished qualities, a jackhammer beat, primal vocal screams, crude aggression, an defiant or comic lyrics.

Question 18

Alternative Rock

Answer 18

Non mainstream rock music, which includes many types of experimental music and some forms of punk and grunge.

Question 19

Hip-Hop

Answer 19

Music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (or samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics, male boasting, an comic lyrics carried forward from blues, R&B, soul, and rock and roll.

Question 20

Gangster Rap

Answer 20

A style of rap music that depicts the hardships of urban life and sometimes glorifies the violent styles of street gangs.

Question 21

Oligopoly

Answer 21

In media economics, an organizational structure in which a few firms control most of an industry’s production and distribution resources.

Question 22

Indies

Answer 22

Independent music and film production houses that work outside industry oligopolies; they often produce less mainstream music and film.

Question 23

A&R (artist and repertoire) Agents

Answer 23

Talent scouts of music business who discover, develop, and sometimes manage performers.

Question 24

Online Piracy

Answer 24

The illegal uploading, downloading, or streaming of copyrighted material, such as music or movies.

Question 25

Counterfeiting

Answer 25

Illegal reissues if out-of-print recordings and the unauthorized duplication I manufacturer recordings sold on the black market at cut-rate prices.

Question 26

Bootlegging

Answer 26

The illegal counterfeiting or pirating of music videos that are priced and/or sold without official permission from the original songwriter, performer, or copyright holder.