Direction:

This exercise is a short-answer question exercise.  To complete the exercise, please look for the answer in the text of "Contemporary Music Styles".  Then, use the key words in the text that answer each question as your answer.  Sometimes, you are required to explain the meaning of a term.  This type of questions actually requires you to show your ability in finding the definition in context.  You, therefore, also find the definition in the text and use it as an answer to the question. Please note that answers are accepted in the form of key words only, not sentences.

1. Is it true or false that rock and roll began as a fusion of styles?

 
2. From what kind of music did country music origniate?

 
3. Three qualities unify the different styles of jazz and what are they?

 
4. If you want to listen to jazz that has quick and strong beats, what style should you choose?  Be-bop, cool jazz, free jazz, or soul jazz?

 
5. What kind(s) of music or songs did the blues grow from?

 
6. What characteristics can be found in the recorded blues from the early 1900s?

 
7. What is the aim of new age music?

 
8. Who introduced hard-rock guitars and hard-hitting beats into rap?

 
9. Who brought to hip-hop "a social and political conscience"?

 
10. What is ska?