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Radio formats usually target special audiences according to
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  • Age and income
  • Gender
  • Race or ethnicity
  • All of the options are correct

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The aim of networks such as CBS and NBC was to serve the public interest.
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  • True
  • False

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The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was formed after World War I to give the United States an early worldwide monopoly over radio broadcasting.
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  • True
  • False

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Network radio helped give America "a national identity."
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  • True
  • False

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Payola is the illegal practice of record promoters paying deejays to play certain songs on the air.
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  • True
  • False

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The telegraph was useless as a means of communicating between ships at sea or between ships and the shore because
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  • Its signal was too weak to travel across bodies of water
  • The telegraph signal was distorted by the electromagnetic spectrum
  • Telegraph equipment was too cumbersome to be used aboard ship
  • The telegraph required a wired cable connecting the sending and receiving stations

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Documentaries generally avoid controversial or unpopular subject matter.
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  • True
  • False

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Birth of a Nation (1915) remains controversial today because it glorifies the Ku Klux Klan.
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  • True
  • False

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Examples of genres include comedy, drama, romance, and action/adventure.
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  • True
  • False

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Which of the following did not have an impact on Hollywood in the postwar era (late 1940s, 1950s)?
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  • The rise of nickelodeons
  • The Paramount decision
  • The mass egress to the suburbs
  • Television

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Through the 1940s, more than 80 percent of all film revenue was generated by
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  • Small neighborhood theaters
  • Downtown first-run theaters
  • Multiplexes in shopping malls
  • Home video rentals

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Block booking was
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  • A studio production technique that doubled up on scripts
  • A studio distribution technique that “bundled” films together
  • A studio exhibition technique that used B roll schedules to limit lengths of films
  • A studio business ploy that “doctored” the accounting books

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To gain access to popular movies, early theater owners and exhibitors had to agree to rent untested or marginal films with unknown actors. This distribution technique was called
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  • International distribution
  • Block booking
  • Option time
  • Zukor’s law

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A study by the Future of Music Coalition showed that
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  • 10 parent companies dominate radio in the US.
  • oligopolies control almost every geographic market.
  • oligopolies control virtually every music format.
  • all of the above.

Frage 15

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The Fairness Doctrine was a requirement by the FCC that stations be fair to their employees.
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  • True
  • False

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The term "Fourth Estate" refers to the media's role to be a watchdog over the three branches of government.
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  • True
  • False

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The script for Black Hawk Down (2002) was changed because the story's main hero had been found guilty of sexual abuse of a young boy.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 18

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The Institute for Creative Technologies is a large company that hires entertainment professionals to create tools to train soldiers and provide battle simulation for the military.
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  • True
  • False

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The Local Community Radio Act of 2010 (signed into law in 2011) was a bipartisan bill to restrict local community access to low power radio.
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  • True
  • False

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The Local Community Radio Act of 2010 (signed into law in 2011) was a bipartisan bill to restrict local community access to low power radio.
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  • results in only positive images of the military.
  • results in productions that show no civilian casualties.
  • contributes to the militaristic nature of our society.
  • all of the above

Frage 21

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The transistor made radio receivers
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  • Portable
  • Expensive
  • Larger
  • Stereophonic

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Most of the applicants for low-power FM radio licenses have been national retailers like Wal-Mart.
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  • True
  • False

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The 1996 Telecommunications Act set off an unprecedented consolidation in radio station ownership.
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  • True
  • False

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The invention of the transistor in the late 1940s made radio more accessible and portable.
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  • True
  • False

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Early radio inventors like Marconi focused on ship-to-shore communication.
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  • True
  • False

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What time period is considered the “golden age” of radio?
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  • 1950s
  • Early 1950s
  • 1920s through 1940s
  • 1890s

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__________________ demonstrated the Justice Department’s attempts at breaking up monopolies within the film industry.
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  • Fin-syn
  • The Paramount decision
  • The Telecommunications Act of 1996
  • HUAC
  • None of the options are correct

Frage 28

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Which of the following is not an element of vertical integration in the movie industry?
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  • Production
  • Syndication
  • Distribution
  • Exhibition
  • All of the elements are correct

Frage 29

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The first movie theaters were called nickelodeons, a name that indicated the cost of admission.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 30

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After Edison, Adolph Zukor of Paramount tried to monopolize the film industry by controlling
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  • Production
  • Distribution
  • Exhibition
  • All of the options are correct

Frage 31

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The Paramount decision ended the dominance of the major studios over the commercial film industry.
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  • True
  • False

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The film industry makes much more money today from first-run releases in movie theaters than from home DVD/video releases.
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  • True
  • False

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Grouping films by genre allows the movie industry to achieve both product standardization and differentiation.
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  • True
  • False

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LPFM was opposed by the NAB and media corporations who claimed that the LPFM stations would cause radio signal interference.
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  • True
  • False

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An increase in radio format varieties has guaranteed greater programming diversity.
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  • True
  • False

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A special bureau at the US State Department handles relations between the military and Hollywood.
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  • True
  • False

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Low Power FM stations
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  • are non-profit
  • are locally owned
  • are at least 500 watts
  • A & B
  • All of the above

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Top Gun was a great example of the refusal of filmmakers to make ideological pro-war arguments in order to win military cooperation on the film.
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  • True
  • False

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The initial media reports that Jessica Lynch had been shot and stabbed later proved to be fabrications, among others, by the military and media.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 40

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The Wireless Ship Act of 1910 resulted from the sinking of the Titanic.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 41

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Which event led to the Radio Act of 1912 (which required most large ships to carry wireless technology)?
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  • Fessenden’s 1906 Christmas Eve transmission
  • The sinking of the Titanic
  • David Sarnoff’s wedding
  • Lee De Forest’s Eiffel Tower broadcast

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Group radio station owners prefer syndicated over locally produced programs.
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  • True
  • False

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TV snatched radio’s
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  • audiences
  • celebrities
  • program genres
  • place in the living room
  • All of the options are correct

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The practice of payola affected 1950s radio, but does not occur today.
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  • True
  • False

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Film studios have generally resisted making product placement deals for creative reasons.
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  • True
  • False

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International box-office gross revenues are almost double the U.S. and Canadian box-office receipts.
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  • True
  • False

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Because of high equipment and operating costs, digital technology is not expected to benefit independent filmmakers for many years.
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  • True
  • False

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The existence of the Motion Picture Patents Company led some independent producers to make their pictures in faraway Hollywood.
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  • True
  • False

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The Bechdel Test
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  • was created by Harry Bechdel
  • measures the extent to which economics affect movie images
  • measures the extent to which women appear as significant characters in the movies
  • all of the above
  • A and B

Frage 50

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Radio and music industry oligopolies tend to interact to control access by bands and musicians.
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  • True
  • False

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The Fairness Doctrine
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  • was abolished in 1949
  • required broadcast stations to air controversial issues and provide multiple viewpoints on these issues
  • was abolished in order to improve diversity of viewpoints on controversial issues
  • all of the above
  • A & C also unsure

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The 90% rule is an informal agreement that the military will overlook the (10% of) small inaccuracies in Hollywood scripts they are asked to review as long as the general story makes the military look good and the message is positive.
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  • True
  • False

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Critics of the relationship between the Pentagon and Hollywood argue that this relationship threatens the First Amendment's responsibility not to favor one form of speech over another.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 54

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Act of Valor was different from other movies because it was initiated by Hollywood producers, not with the military itself.
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  • True
  • False

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An FCC study released in 2003 proved that signal interference was a problem with the establishment of low power FM stations
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  • True
  • False

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Consolidation has not affected the music recording industry.
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  • True
  • False

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Streaming service subscriptions have doubled in the first half of 2016.
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  • True
  • False

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The 2005 Radio and Concert Disclosure and Competition Act came about as a result of payola scandals.
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  • True
  • False

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Even though they have achieved mainstream success, some of Green Day's lyrics are very critical of US politics as well as the power of giant corporations.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 60

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The fair use provision protects
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  • commentary
  • reasonable educational purposes
  • parody
  • all of the above

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Until very recently, revenues declined for the music industry for several years, due to...
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  • the increased costs of production and distribution.
  • free or cheap online streaming
  • the new iTunes model in which you can buy just a single recording rather than the whole album.
  • all of the above.
  • B & C

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Payola is the practice of radio stations paying money to record labels in order to be able to play their music.
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  • True
  • False

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Payola is seen as a problem because it opens access to the mainstream through radio airplay for all sorts of independent music, whether it is good music or not.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 64

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Approximately 190 radio stations were implicated in the payola scandal of the mid-2000s.
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  • True
  • False

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YouTube...
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  • is one of the biggest copyright infringers in the world
  • A & B
  • receives thousands of take-down notices
  • resists these take-down orders to protect its users First Amendment rights

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Until the invention of digital recording, records were made using an analog recording process.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 67

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Recording artists receive more than half of the price of a $1.29 iTunes download.
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  • True
  • False

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Cleveland deejay Alan Freed helped popularize black music with white audiences.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 69

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The music industry has successfully blocked systems which enable free music file sharing.
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  • True
  • False

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In the 1920s, hundreds of radio stations went off the air because they couldn’t afford to pay for the rights to broadcast recorded music.
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  • True
  • False

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Songwriters and publishers receive a mechanical royalty when they allow one of their copyrighted songs to be recorded.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 72

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Which musical genre drew on features of urban culture including cutting (or sampling) by deejays, break dancing, poetry slams, and graffiti art?
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  • grunge
  • hip-hop
  • punk rock
  • alternative

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Artists receive a performance royalty when one of their songs is played on the radio.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 74

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Bars, performance spaces, universities that use music at arenas or when callers are on hold, etc, all must pay a ___________.
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  • performance royalty.
  • fair use fee.
  • mechanical royalty.
  • none of the above.

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Alan Freed and Dick Clark...
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  • were radio DJs in the early days of rock and roll.
  • were both investigated for payola.
  • were both found guilty of payola.
  • A & B

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"Cost of entry," or the cost to make and distribute a music recording, is much more expensive these days than 10 or 20 years ago, given the high costs of production and digital distribution.
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  • True
  • False

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Payola was under investigation during the mid 2000s by the New York Attorney General, Congress and the FCC.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 78

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Green Day, compared with The Sex Pistols, achieved much less commercial success.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 79

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In 2005 several recording companies, such as BMG and Warner Music, agreed to pay millions in settlement fees for their involvement in payola schemes.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 80

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The two properties in a recorded song are
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  • the rights to the melody and the lyrics.
  • the rights to the song itself and the recording.
  • the rights to the song title and the arrangement.
  • none of the above.

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Both Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting, among others, were implicated in 2004 in a multi-million dollar payola scheme.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 82

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Competition from TV in the 1950s helped the radio and recording industries become allies.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 83

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In addition to sales royalties received by artists, two other kinds of royalty payments exist: mechanical and performance royalties. These are ____________.
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  • royalties given to the engineers and backup musicians on a recording
  • royalties that go to the songwriters and music publishers
  • ways for recording labels to take more than the contracted share of widely sold CDs
  • royalties paid to “rack jobbers” and other distributors of retail music and radio stations that play the music

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Popular music did not exist until the invention of phonographs.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 85

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The invention of the _______________ paved the way for digital recording.
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  • Audiotape
  • 33 1/3 rpm records
  • Flat disks
  • Lamp black
  • Wax cylinders

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Folk is considered a more democratic and participatory form of music than other genres.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 87

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Which key factor or factors contributed to the rise and growth of rock-and-roll music?
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  • Youths with money were looking for escapism and a new music style to identify their generation.
  • Desegregation and the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement brought about a blending of black and white cultures in U.S. society.
  • All of the above
  • Radio sought a new audience after World War II.

Frage 88

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An artist’s royalties make up only a small fraction of the sales price of a CD.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 89

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Dick Clark was a radio DJ who challenged the norms of the day by playing both black and white artists, while Alan Freed was the clean cut, less threatening DJ of the two.
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  • True
  • False

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The Sex Pistols...
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  • were a "manufactured band" set up by Malcolm McLaren who masterminded the punk rock genre.
  • were infamous for public intoxication and swearing.
  • lasted about two and a half years before their breakup (prior to later comebacks by some of the group).
  • all of the above.
  • B & C

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The biggest source of revenue in the music industry currently is from
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  • CD and MP3 sales
  • touring and merchandising
  • endorsements
  • royalties

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Green Day...
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  • made a comeback with their 2004 album "American Idiot."
  • were much more polished and better promoted than the Sex Pistols.
  • exemplify how rebellion and critique, in this case, of US involvement in Iraq, can be commodified and commercialized by the mainstream.
  • all of the above.
  • none of the above.

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The 2005 Radio and Concert Disclosure and Competition Act came about as a result of payola scandals.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 94

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Approximately 190 radio stations were implicated in the payola scandal of the mid-2000s.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 95

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Domestic US record sales
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  • increased from less than 7 billion in 2002 to 14 billion in 2011.
  • decreased from 14 billion in 2002 to less than 7 billion in 2011.
  • stayed about the same due to the emergence of digital technologies.
  • none of the above.

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Until very recently, revenues declined for the music industry for several years, due to...
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  • the increased costs of production and distribution.
  • free or cheap online streaming.
  • the new iTunes model in which you can buy just a single recording rather than the whole album.
  • all of the above.
  • B & C.

Frage 97

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Punk rock emerged in the 1970s partly to protest the commercialism of the recording industry.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 98

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Songwriters and publishers receive a mechanical royalty when they allow one of their copyrighted songs to be recorded.
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  • True
  • False

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Which of the following moral and cultural boundaries did rock and roll not blur in the 1950s?
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  • White and black
  • Sacred and secular
  • Male and female
  • North and South
  • Old and young

Frage 100

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Which of the following performers became convinced he was playing the “devil’s music”?
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  • Buddy Holly
  • Sid Vicious
  • Elvis Presley
  • Little Richard??

Frage 101

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An artist’s royalties make up only a small fraction of the sales price of a CD.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 102

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In addition to sales royalties received by artists, two other kinds of royalty payments exist: mechanical and performance royalties. These are ____________.
Antworten
  • royalties given to the engineers and backup musicians on a recording
  • royalties that go to the songwriters and music publishers
  • ways for recording labels to take more than the contracted share of widely sold CDs

Frage 103

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Which key factor or factors contributed to the rise and growth of rock-and-roll music?
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  • Radio sought a new audience after World War II.
  • Youths with money were looking for escapism and a new music style to identify their generation.
  • Desegregation and the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement brought about a blending of black and white cultures in U.S. society.
  • All of the above

Frage 104

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Competition from TV in the 1950s helped the radio and recording industries become allies.
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  • True
  • False
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