Pop Music Review
Across
- 2. type of camera angle used in film clip for Sakamoto's "Sukiyaki"
- 5. one of the early 60s dance crazes
- 7. an Indian instrument used on "Strawberry Fields Forever"
- 9. last name of one of the "fathers" of folk music
- 11. father of Motown
- 12. what Al Jolson and Joni Mitchell had in common sort of
- 14. an "obstinate" pattern that is repeated and around which everything else shifts
- 15. where Tin Pan Alley was "reborn" in the late 50s and early 60s (two words)
- 16. moments when the music is briefly interrupted by silence
- 18. bass a repeated step-wise pattern of low pitches
- 19. popular TV show that featured pop tunes and kids dancing (two words)
- 24. nickname of "Good Vibrations"
- 26. the speed of the music
- 27. an early one of these used for Frank Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me"
- 28. running a finger up or down a piano or other keyboard for a sweeping effect
- 33. gradually getting louder for effect
- 36. famed record producer who invented “the wall of sound”
- 37. television rip-off of the Beatles movies
- 39. the basic pulse of the music
- 40. singing one syllable over many notes
Down
- 1. James Brown's reduction of musical elements to almost pure syncopated rhythm
- 3. the circuit in which R & B artists toured and performed
- 4. Paul McCartney's accompaniment on "Yesterday"
- 6. running the tape the wrong way in the music studio
- 8. last name of Beach Boys innovator
- 10. last name of singer of “Girl from Ipanema”
- 11. “Sgt. Pepper’s” was the first one of this type of package which later became the norm
- 13. the back-and-forth device in which a vocal line alternates with a guitar line as in Sister Rosetta Tharpe's gospel (three words)
- 17. last name (ironically) of the “worst” player in the early Beatles
- 20. type of song exemplified by Patti Page and Neil Sedaka
- 21. a type of video jukebox
- 22. the effect of mental over-stimulation that was simulated to “turn you on”
- 23. what happened when the Byrds recorded a Bob Dylan song (two words)
- 25. when two tunes overlap as in the Beatles’ “Help!”
- 28. last name of the folkie whose guitar "killed fascists"
- 29. nickname for a "cleaning up" of Elvis's wildness
- 30. album on which “Tomorrow Never Knows” cross-fertilized pop music with the avant-garde
- 31. first pop group to print all the lyrics on an album cover
- 32. the kind of paintings that influenced the thinking behind “Sgt. Pepper’s” (two words)
- 34. double entendre used in an R & B context
- 35. last name of the most celebrated of the Supremes
- 38. last name of the classically trained but experimental collaborator of the Beatles