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Questão 1

Questão
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

Questão 2

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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

Questão 3

Questão
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

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

Questão
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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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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

Questão 9

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

Questão 10

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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

Questão 11

Questão
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

Questão 12

Questão
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

Questão 13

Questão
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

Questão 14

Questão
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.

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

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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

Questão 17

Questão
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

Questão 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

Questão 19

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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

Questão 20

Questão
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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

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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

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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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

Questão 25

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

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

Questão
__________________ 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

Questão 28

Questão
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

Questão 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

Questão 30

Questão
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

Questão 31

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

Questão 32

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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

Questão 33

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

Questão 34

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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

Questão 35

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

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

Questão
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

Questão 38

Questão
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

Questão 39

Questão
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

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

Questão
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

Questão 42

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

Questão 43

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

Questão 44

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

Questão 45

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

Questão 46

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

Questão 47

Questão
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

Questão 48

Questão
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

Questão 49

Questão
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

Questão 50

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

Questão 51

Questão
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

Questão 52

Questão
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

Questão 53

Questão
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

Questão 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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 55

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

Questão 56

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

Questão 57

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

Questão 58

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

Questão 59

Questão
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

Questão 60

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

Questão 61

Questão
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

Questão 62

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

Questão 63

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 64

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

Questão 65

Questão
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

Questão 66

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

Questão 67

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

Questão 68

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

Questão 69

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

Questão 70

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 71

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

Questão 72

Questão
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

Questão 73

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

Questão 74

Questão
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.

Questão 75

Questão
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

Questão 76

Questão
"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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 77

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

Questão 78

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

Questão 79

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

Questão 80

Questão
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.

Questão 81

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

Questão 82

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

Questão 83

Questão
In addition to sales royalties received by artists, two other kinds of royalty payments exist: mechanical and performance royalties. These are ____________.
Responda
  • 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

Questão 84

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

Questão 85

Questão
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

Questão 86

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

Questão 87

Questão
Which key factor or factors contributed to the rise and growth of rock-and-roll music?
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 88

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

Questão 89

Questão
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.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 90

Questão
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

Questão 91

Questão
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

Questão 92

Questão
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.

Questão 93

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

Questão 94

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

Questão 95

Questão
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.

Questão 96

Questão
Until very recently, revenues declined for the music industry for several years, due to...
Responda
  • 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.

Questão 97

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

Questão 98

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

Questão 99

Questão
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

Questão 100

Questão
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??

Questão 101

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

Questão 102

Questão
In addition to sales royalties received by artists, two other kinds of royalty payments exist: mechanical and performance royalties. These are ____________.
Responda
  • 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

Questão 103

Questão
Which key factor or factors contributed to the rise and growth of rock-and-roll music?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 104

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

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