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This activity contains 20 questions.

	The Civil Rights Movement’s importance and influence was felt through popular music via _______________.   an increase in the number of black-owned record labels an increase in the number of black artists releasing chart topping songs, such as the "girl groups.” an increase in the number of black television musical shows A and b B and c

	________________ produced the Crystals and Ronettes.   Berry Gordy Brian Wilson Phil Spector Tom Dodds None of the above

	Music made at Motown was intended from the start to be a crossover style.    True  False

	Bob Dylan never had a Top Forty hit.    True  False

	The Beatles, the Searchers, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and the Swinging Blue Jeans came from _________________.   New Castle Birmingham London Liverpool

	_____________________influenced the Beatles’ music most.   Black rock ’n’ rollers of the ’50s B and c Black girl groups A and b Folkies

	______________ was/were a big influence on the Stones and the Animals.   Folk Doo wop The blues The Beatles

	The Beatles’ first record company was a black-owned label.    True  False

	The Beatles and Bob Dylan were the two major popular music forces in the mid-’60s.    True  False

	_____________ did covers of Bob Dylan songs.   The Byrds Jimi Hendrix Cher The Turtles All of the above

	________________________ offered a large dose of Tin Pan Alley in their songs.   Simon and Garfunkel The Loving Spoonful The Mamas and the Papas Barry McGuire A and d

	The black music counterpart to Motown was rooted in the Memphis sound.    True  False

	____________________ music was created and intended for black audiences, creating ‘funk’ along the way.   Wilson Pickett’s James Brown’s Booker T and the MGs’ Sam Cooke’s

	________________ was the only San Francisco group ever to have Top Ten singles in the 1960s.   Big Brother Country Joe Jefferson Airplane The Grateful Dead

	____________________ was/were the first of the power trios that combined psychedelics and the blues.   Cream The Moody Blues Pink Floyd The Beatles

	In 1967, ______________ took place, to make that year the most significant in rock’s young history.   The Human Be-In the Beatles’ release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band the Monterey Pop Festival The “Summer of Love” All of the above

	_______________ were the greatest songwriting team of the ’60s.   Lennon and McCartney King and Goffen Sedaka and Greenwich Holland-Dozier-Holland

	The sexual revolution of the late ’60s liberated men and women equally.    True  False

	Sly and the Family Stone was the first racially and gender-integrated rock band, fusing rock and funk.    True  False

	______________ was a fitting end to the turbulent ’60s in rock music, politics, and the counterculture.   Woodstock Jim Morrison’s death Nixon’s rise to the presidency Altamont

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