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Music in Society (4)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did the culture of the black community contribute to hip-hop? | -Break Dance. -Tagging/graffiti: spread name or symbol. -Playing the Dozens: Like trading yo mama jokes. -DJing. -MCing. All in NYC. |
| Why was NYC so popular for Hip-Hop? | Cross Bronx Expressway: -Built from 1948 to 1972. -Dissected neighborhoods. -Cut off the Bronx. -Created poverty: could avoid stopping in the Bronx and purchasing items. |
| What was the importance of language during this time period? | -African traditions. -Denied during slavery. -Speech as power. |
| What was the Jamaican influence on hip-hop? | -Sound systems: Rude Boys. -Two main jobs: 1.) Selector- DJ 2.) Talker- MC Talker did toasting. |
| Who was Afrika Bambaataa? | Created the Zulu Nation. -An afterschool program for Bronx students. |
| Who was DJ Kool Herc? | Jamaican. -Invented the "breakbeat", which extended the break. -B-boys and b-girls. |
| Who was DJ Grandmaster Flash? | Invented new DJ techniques. 1.) Quick-Mix Theory. 2.) Slipmat. -Popularized scratching. -Viewed DJing as an art form. |
| What was the Sugar Hill Gang? | -"Rapper Delight", which was the first rap song to make top 40. Distributed by Funk label. -Used "Good Times". -Toasting |
| What was Run-DMC? | First rap record to go gold. -500,000 copies sold. -Expanded rhyme schemes. -Used 80s pop-inspired beats. -Mixed rap with rock. -"Walk this Way", first rap video on MTV. |
| What is conscious rap? | Acknowledge conditions in minority community. -Provide warnings and promote positive change. -"The Message" by Grandmaster Flash. -"Ladies First" by Queen Latifah. |
| What is Gangsta Rap? | Reality Rap. Acknowledge conditions. -Take ownership of negative representations. -Long history of appropriating racist stereotypes. -Influenced by style of Run-DMC. -More intricate raps. -Championed by LA rappers. |
| What was the Drug War? | Began during Nixon administration. -Crack cocaine had 100x heavier sentences. |
| Who "started" East Coast Rap? What was it? | -Sean "Diddy" Combs. -Notorious B.I.G. Bravado. Self-agrandize: Focus on self over society and community. |
| Who is Diddy? | Talent director. Label owner. |
| Who was Notorious B.I.G.? | Ready to Die (1994). -Concept album. -Keeps the hard-edged font of LA Gangsta rappers. -Focus on self-agrandizement. -Popularized "uhh", "what", etc. during intros. -More heavily produced beats. -Misogyny. |
| Death Row Records vs. Bad Boy Records | Death Row: Suge Knight and Dr.Dre. Bad Boys: Diddy and Biggie. -Jealous rivalry for attention. Tupac Shakur: Jailtime for SA, Quad Studio shooting. -Diss tracks. -Attempts and Murders. |
| What is the Dirty South Rap? | Uneven rhyme schemes. -"Dirty Beats". -Southern pride. -Sense of humor. |
| What are rhyme schemes? | How the words rhyme. -Where the rhyming words are placed in relation to the rhythmic beats. |
| What are dirty beats? | Heavily produced. -Feature synthesized and manipulated sounds. -Fuzzy, grinding sounds. No empty space. |
| What is Southern Pride? | Looked down on NY rappers. -Pride pushes back. |
| Who is Outkast? | Big Boi and Andre 3000. -Created the Dirty South sound. -Experimental/artistic. -Afrofuturism/P-Funk. -Elements of Conscious rap. |
| What is "Ms. Jackson"? | Examines the reality of "baby mama drama". -Characters stuck between love for children and moving on. -Video: southern pride. |
| What is Trap Music? | Outkast. Rejection of Utopian view. -Trap music. -Social realism. -Musically simple. -Depict life in poor areas of Atlanta. -Money from drugs. |
| Who is Childish Gambino? | Atlanta (2016-2022). "This is America" (2018). -Party atmosphere vs. violence of reality. -Begins with African singing (work song?). -Contrasted with dark, trap beat. -Video: stereotypes of blackness. -Dancing comic relief vs violent. |
| What is semiotics? | The study of signs, symbols, and their interpretations. |
| What is a signifier? | Word-object. |
| What does signified mean? | Culturally prescribed meaning. -Signs are culturally defined. |
| What is a patriotism? | Love for or devotion to one's country. |
| What is a nationalism? | Exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of others. |
| What is a nation? | An imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. -Imagined because you'll never meet most of fellow-members, yet they live in "communism". -Limited because it doesn't include all of mankind. |
| Nationalism pre-1800s. | What connected people?: Location, language, and culture. What was worth dying for?: Religion, shared sacred language, hierarchy, connection between past and present, and dynasties. |
| What effected the creation of nations? | Mass-Politics, i.e. democracies. -Can't rely on religion or dynasty. -Require new methods of "control". Thus, need for nations. |
| Methods for reinforcement for nations. | Primary Ed: Teach citizenship. Public ceremonies and holidays. Public monuments: flags, statues, uniforms. Imagined traditions: Scottish tartans. |
| How is nationhood reinforced? | Imagined communities need coherence. -Communal signifiers. "Banal Nationalism": banal- so obvious as to be boring, but not ineffective. |
| Banal nationalism in music. | Overt nationalism: "God Bless the U.S.A." Banal nationalism: listing the states, the cover is on a city street. |
| Country music. | A constantly evolving "tradition". Not a single musical tradition. -Several strains of tradition that overlap. Connected by the community they serve. -Rural America. Constantly redefined to fit evolving community. |
| Early roots of country music. | Immigrant folk traditions. -Plucked strings, bowed strings, and reedy winds. Transplanted to Appalachia. -Banjo/guitar, fiddle, and harmonica. |
| What is Vaudeville? | Travelling variety shows. -Comic acts. -Minstrels. -Music. |
| What are Medicine Shows? | "Shake Oil" salesman. -Music used to attract customers. |
| What are the earliest country recordings? | Bristol Sessions (1927). -Ralph Reer. 77 tracks in ten days. -Religious themes. -Guitar accompaniment. -Nasal vocals. |
| Who was Jimmy Rodgers? | "Father of Country Music". -Ambition= travelling musician. -Recording artist: created band in Asheville. Was deserted. |
| What are the Westerns? | Hillbilly vs. Western music. John Lomax-etnomusicologist. -Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (1910). -"A Home on the Range". |
| Who was Roy Rodgers? | "King of the Cowboys". Singer turned actor. -Sons of Pioneers. -Family Band. -Discovered in LA. -Appeared in around 90 movies. |
| What is the Symphony? | Orchestral. Movement: sections divided by a break. Usually 4. Structured by speed/tempo. -Symphonie Fantastique. -Baroque, classical, romantic, 20th century. -Peak of "absolute music": music for music sake. |
| Beethoven's Fifth | Concert pianist. Deafness, so composed full time. -Single handedly changed the course of Western music. Fifth: musical narrative of triumph over oppression. -Fate motif. -No break between movements. |
| Grand Ole Opry | 4-hr live radio show. -WSM-Nashville. -750 mile reach. -Vaudeville/Barn Dance. -Rock N Rollers not welcome. |
| Describe the popularization of country. | Boom in California country. -Barn Dances. -"Western Swing" Ernest Tubb in Carnegie Hall. -In the morning for "farmers". Industry based on songs, not performances. |
| Nashville Country | G.O.O brings industry to Nashville. -Rock N Roll challenged the status quo, exploited the racial sharing that had been part of "country. Country needed to assimilate to urban "pop". -Increasing commercialized. Embraced by politicians. |
| Who was Patsy Cline? | Country singer. Pushed into pop stardom. |
| Outlaw Country | Southern Rock. -Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers. Outlawed mixed elements of country into hard rock. -Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Avoided control of Nashville industry. Revised cowboy songs and older style. Celebrities of counter-culture. |
| Neo-Traditionalism vs New Country | George Strait vs Garth Brooks. -Instrumentation. -Chord progressions. -Authenticity. Rockism?? |
| Country-Pop Crossover | New Country=New Money. More Money=More Commercial Interest. -Tradition of its own. -Songs more important than performances. -Dolly Parton. |
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