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4 From the New Frontier to the New Millennium

Assessment

1. Which of the following statements is most accurate?

  1. President Kennedy was able to enact every goal of The New Frontier
  2. goals of the New Frontier included exploration of space, reduction of poverty, and equal rights for African Americans
  3. the Vietnam War was over by the time President Kennedy took office
  4. few Americans supported the goals of the New Frontier
2. The John Coltrane piece “Alabama” was composed in memory of:
  1. the victims of the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama
  2. the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
  3. a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama
  4. the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott
3. In 1969, the biggest-selling album in jazz was:
  1. A Love Supreme
  2. Bitches Brew
  3. The Shape of Jazz to Come
  4. Blood on the Fields
4. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, the term “fusion” described a form of music that combined:
  1. bebop and swing
  2. hip hop and rock
  3. jazz and rock
  4. country and rhythm and blues
5. A principal innovator of free jazz was:
  1. Miles Davis
  2. Ornette Coleman
  3. Herbie Hancock
  4. Count Basie
6. Proponents of free jazz intentionally put less emphasis on:
  1. charging admission for jazz concerts
  2. collective improvisation
  3. fixed harmonic structures and rhythms
  4. using musical instruments in new ways for a greater range of emotional expression
7. During the last 30 years:
  1. free jazz has continued to grow in popularity
  2. fewer young jazz musicians have begun formal study of music
  3. jazz has increasingly been accepted at conservatories and recognized by major cultural institutions
  4. neo-mainstream jazz has declined
8. The loft jazz movement of the 1970s was most influenced by:
  1. the Beach Boys
  2. avant-garde and free jazz
  3. neo-mainstream jazz musicians
  4. conservatories and major cultural institutions
9. The British Invasion of the 1960s:
  1. led to a decline in the development of American rock bands
  2. increased sales of jazz albums
  3. contributed to a decline in jazz audiences
  4. led to the development of free jazz
10. A musician known for improvising in “sheets of sound” was:
  1. John Coltrane
  2. Miles Davis
  3. Ornette Coleman
  4. Cecil Taylor
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