1. How did the careers of Olivia Newton-John and Dolly Parton differ?
2. What makes a rock album more than a collection of singles?
3. Name two significant “concept albums” of the 1960s.
4. What events signaled the end of the counterculture for rock fans?
5. What were the changes in the recording industries in the 1970s?
6. What was AOR?
7. What styles of music were considered part of the commercial mainstream of 1970s popular music?
8. What was the “Philadelphia sound”?
9. What was the relationship between country music and the pop mainstream during the 1970s?
10. Describe hardcore country and the Bakersfield sound.
11. Describe the music of Carlos Santana.
12. What contributed to the popularity of disco?
13. What are the stylistic features of disco as heard in the recordings “Bad Girls” and “Good Times”?