Final Exam Flashcards

1
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How was heavy metal termed?

A

retroactively

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Where did heavy metal emerge from?

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1960s England - emerged from London Blues Scene

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what genre are recurring riffs and where did it come from?

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  • heavy metal took blues and riff based London blues scene - on steroids
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What is the main value of heavy metal? and how is it conveyed?

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power

- extreme volume

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5
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what is the primary instrument used in heavy metal?

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electric guitar - rivalled lead singer as focal point

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What are guitar gods?

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  • centering on electric guitar
  • developed virtuosic and loud styles of playing (to fill large stadiums)
  • amplification for electric guitar - guitar distortion
  • players normally classically trained - virtuosity
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7
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what did the electric guitar symbolize?

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sex ;)

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8
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What is Pete Townshed famous for and symbolize?

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smashing guitar - symbolized violence (gun)

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How did vocalists in heavy metal sing?

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loud screaming style (distortion of voice)

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what is distortion?

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metaphor for going too far/over the line

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Yardbirds

  • originate location
  • members
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  • from London blues scene

- Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton etc.

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Jimmy Paige

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founding member of Led Zeppelin

- one of the founders of heavy metal/hard rock

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Members of Led Zeppelin (4)

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Jimmy Paige, Robert Plant, John Bonham, John Paul Jones

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14
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Led Zeppelin name suggest by?

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Keith from the Who

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15
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Master of the riff

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Jimmy Paige

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16
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“Black Dog/Rock and Roll” musical aspects

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  • Led Zeppelin

riff, powerful sound/images, large base drum

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17
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“When the leaves break” characteristics

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Led Zeppelin

- revolutionized drumbeat, used studio to develop sounds of power

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18
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who did heavy metal appeal to?

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working class, white adolescents who were feeling powerless

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19
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“A Whole Lot of Love”

  • band
  • characteristics
  • meaning
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  • Led Zeppelin
  • covered man songs
  • faced charge of plagiarism for this song
  • insistent riff used to get across insistent projection of male sexuality
  • electric guitar reflected great power
  • psychedelic drum section/ weird guitar/percussion effects
  • orgasmic moaning/screaming and violent sounds (accused of suggesting sexual violence)
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20
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What bad thing did Jimmy Paige do?

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kept a young 14 year old ‘groupie’ locked in apartment as sex slave
flying orgy plane
explored the occult-dark, evil magic

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Black Sabbath as a band

  • originates
  • singer
  • album cover
  • named after
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  • Birmingham - diary, industrial town
  • Ozzy Osborne (singer)
  • Tony Iommi (guitarist) - sliced off 2 fingertips - gave hand heavier sound - developed uniques sound
  • art sets tone - witch holding a black cat, old gloomy grey sky, creepy house
    named after horror movies
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“Black Sabbath” song

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  • storm sounds, tolling of a bell, ominousness
  • riff based song
  • middle interval sounds like a siren (Tritone)
  • sound suggestive of evil
  • about being the chosen one by satan - steeped in darkness
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tritone

A

diabolos in musica = devil in music

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24
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“Iron Man”

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  • Black Sabbath
  • suggestive of power, iron = strong
  • based on movie/book about man who travels to earth to warn other, goes through magnetic field and turns into iron man, nobody believes him so he brings forth the prophecy himself
  • riff based song
  • minor 2nd = ‘doom’ interval - like Jaws
    tritone
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Minor 2nd

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‘doom’ interval - like Jaws

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26
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Deep Purple originated from

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English band

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27
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“Highway Star”

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  • car theme - speed, excitement, power, notion of freedom
  • parallel between a car and women - describe her features (objectifying) - power over everything including women
  • baroque virtuosity - studied Baroque classical music techniques
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Glam Rock/ Glitter Rock

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  • embrace theatricality - put taboos right in your face on stage (makeup, cross dressing, displaying ‘bulges’ prominently
  • more elaborate, invented characters for performances (reinvented themselves)
  • desperation to escape boredom of everyday, suburban life
  • exploring anxieties of the day - gender issues, homosexuality, etc.
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29
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What did London, NY, and Detroit have in common in the early 70s?

A

economic hardship

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30
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white flight

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white people moved from city to suburbs (boredom in suburbs)

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31
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What do Marc Bolan and David Bowie have in common??

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London suburbs and hated living there, tried to stand out

pretty boys

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32
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1969 Stonewall Inn

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  • bar routinely raided by police b/c it was a homeosexual hang out
  • during 1969, they fought back, birth of gay rights movement
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Marc Boland

  • started what band
  • famous characteristics
A
  • founded the band T.Rex
  • carrier took off b/c of Chelita Secunda - took him shopping and remakes his image (decks him in latest women’s fashion - put on makeup)
  • sexuality unclear - clearly crossed conventional lines of masculinity
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“Bang a Gong (Get it on)”

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T.Rex

  • changed name to bang a gong as thought it was too suggestive for air play
  • glam tries to tap into notion if sleazy sexuality
  • explore other worlds - streets of sleaze and outer space - create alternative universes to escape boredom of suburban living
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35
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David Bowie

  • original name?
  • wife’s name
  • what did he become
A
  • David Jones
  • Angela Bowie (gave him a makeover)
  • made him into a glam star - used to be folk singer/ singer-song writer (music flopped)
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36
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“Space Odyssey”

A
  • David Bowie
  • minor hit - about big thing of the day (the moon landing)
  • space exploration idea coming around
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37
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David Bowie meets Andy Warhol description and influence

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  • meets Andy Warhol (provocative artist) - went to the factory
  • influenced by provocative theatricality - considered taboo to everyday folks
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38
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Wayne/Jayne Country

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avant-gard art created to make others uncomfortable (theatre group)

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Ziggy Stardust

A
  • David Bowie’s persona

- alien being - seductive (beautiful)

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40
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What is David Bowie the first to do? + expand that influence

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  • first rock star to state that he was bisexual
  • took society through an exploration of what it means to be male
  • let others live ‘larger than life existence’ vicariously
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41
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“Life on Mars”

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  • David Bowie
  • riff that borrows rocket theme from classic music - ascending interval, flurry of notes at top (explosion like)
  • played by Mark Ronson
  • light vulnerable
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42
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sex =

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biological

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43
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gender =

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performative/social

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44
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Where does Glam rock start and spread to?

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England then US

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45
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Lou Reed

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  • grows up in New York - homosexual - parents tried to treat him of his homosexuality
  • falls in love with New York underground scene - meets Andy Warhol and group
46
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“Walk on the Wild Side”

A
  • Lou Reed
  • about people he met in NYC
  • Holly came from Florida and presented self as female in NY)
  • banded from many radio studios as promoted taboos
  • tour guide for introducing to different underground world - like what was seen on NYC streets
  • reference to cliche of black backup singer - in this song, they provide the hook to song but backup the singer - mistreatment of black culture - put at forefront of song, thrown in your face
  • fretless bass
47
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fretless bass

A

can slide between notes (obscures boundaries between notes)

48
Q

Alice Cooper

  • from
  • real name
  • fathers occupation + influence on Alice
  • influence on gender
  • borrows from what types of movies
A
  • Detroit - glam rock
  • Vincet
  • father was a preacher - was bored of suburban life so reinvented self as Alice Cooper
  • put on gender, it is a construction that you perform
  • shock people into buying records and rethinking things
  • borrows many elements from horror movies (bought guillotine to concerts and ‘cuts off heads’, has song about necrophilia
49
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“Hello, Hooray”

A
  • Alice Cooper - glam rock
  • invites audience into his theatrical world
  • comes out after series of mass murders in US- many movies coming out at the time with horror themes
50
Q

Kiss

  • from
  • influence
  • members and known for
A
  • NYC - glam rock
  • elaborate stage outfits and makeup each created their own identity for themselves
  • Gene Simons - dragon, spit fire, and blood
  • Ace Freely - outer space alien
  • Paul Stanley - star child lover, endogenous identity
  • Peter Crisp - the cat man
51
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“God of Thunder”

A
  • Kiss
  • cross over with heavy metal - powerful
  • tapping into Greek mythology (Gods), inviting us to inhabit world of gods
  • leave boring life and live in fantasy world
  • power and element of horror
52
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Jamica (1655 - 1962) after colonialism

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  • Europeans killed most on indigenous population and imported slaves from Africa
  • plantation economies
  • when left established economy based on slave labor, left turmoil-extracted natural resources, exploited human resources, when political unattainable to maintain ties with Jamaica left a mess
  • widespread poverty and slums known as ‘shantytowns’
  • subcultures of young people who want a better life - turn to protest (musical genre is part of protest)
  • rude boys
53
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rude boys

A
  • Jamaica
  • rebellious, apposed to establishment, unlawful, rowdy protester
  • adopt and embrace name
  • subculture with stylistic fashion, revolve around ska and reggae
54
Q

Mento

A

Jamaican folk music, specifically protest music (influenced ska)
- subtle messages so avoided wrath of authorities

55
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Calypso music

A

loping baselines

56
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Ska

A
  • Jamaica
  • American rhythm and blues
  • radios introduced Jamaicans to rhythm and blues
57
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Explain DJs in Jamaica

A
  • centre of rude boy culture
  • throw sound system parties - import records from US and play at parties (have PA and play records)
  • toasting
  • biggest sound system would have the best party and make them money
  • sound system play American records, DJ toasting them over it
  • roots of hip hop come out of Jamaican sound system party
  • dubbing
  • drive trucks and throw parties, rude boys take on aspect of African subculture protest (embrace badness as goodness)
  • bands replace records and play for DJ to sing over
  • skanking
  • skank guitar
58
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toasting

A

while recording playing the DJ would toast people, brag about own excellence and sound system

59
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dubbing

A

record used and vocals removed, new vocals ‘dubbed’ over

60
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DJ cool Herc

A

one of the first to throw sound system party in the Bronx

61
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Skanking

A
  • dance style embraced by rude boy culture

- jagged elbows and bent knees (violence) - cultivated the mosh pit

62
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skank guitar

A
  • closely related to scratch guitar
  • played in percussive way, rhythmic aspects for grounded over harmonic capabilities
  • emphasizes the upbeats, pause on downbeat
  • base nails ‘the one’
63
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Musical elements of Ska

A
  • percussive timber - designed to sound like Timbale
  • antiestablishment lyrics (applies to reggae)
  • influenced by African American rhythm and blues - horn sections important (also apply to reggae)
  • 2 tone records - reduce everything to black and white, and blend in appealing ways, fight racism with a pleasing blend
64
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“007 (Shanty Town)”

A
  • Desmond Dekker
  • how much influence British culture had (James Bond well known in Jamaica)
  • 007 - license to kill
  • 2 interpretations
    1. rude boy living under oppressive system - license to act violently in defiance of laws
    2. suggest authorities are walking around with this mindset
  • timbale style hit
  • ocean eleven - reference to British culture
65
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“The Israelites”

A
  • makes reference to biblical story that deals with freedom of slaves
  • suggest oppression continues even after slavery ends and colonialism ends
  • legacy of history is impactful
66
Q

1972 - movies The Harder They Come - starring Jimmy Cliff

A
  • international hit

- take ska music and give international audience

67
Q

Brixton and Notting Hill

A
  • Notting Hill - carnival celebration
  • immigrants continue Jamaican carnival traditions
  • large Jamaican turnout and white working class folks in poor neighbourhoods where they mixed
  • 1958 - police harassed celebrators - violence issued
  • 1976 - celebration tarnished by police harassment and violence (repression from police who used excessive brutality)
  • white immigration protestors would show up at carnival
68
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Joe Strummer

A
  • white ska fan

- influenced by ska, borrowed from each other

69
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The Specials

A
  • mixed race group, white and black working - class folks from mixed (non-white) neighbourhoods
  • sign with 2 tone records - specialized in ska and reggae
  • use as platform for racial harmony
  • highlight black and whiteness in a cool way
70
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“A Message to you Rudy”

A
  • The Specials
  • originally by Jamaican artists - Dandy Livingstone
  • rude boys need to behave or end up in jail - deliver with ironic tone (inhabit voice of authority telling themselves to shape up) - but these people felt like had no future
  • timable, off beats, skank actions
  • feels like party music, yet very political - dancing and fun in itself is political (have good time in their face in spite of everything)
71
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Bob Marley

A
  • mixed race (father white British military man that left mother when he was young)
  • grew up in shantytown - Kingston
  • joined group - the Wailers - Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • name suggests agony and protest
  • devotion to Rastafarianism
72
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Rastafarianism

A
  • religious movement that claims that Hallie Selassie/Ras Tafari (king of Ethiopia) was prophet
  • thought was legitimate prophet to Judaeo-Christian Bible
  • involved ritual smoking of cannabis (ganja), not cut or wash hair (dreadlocks)
73
Q

reggae music =

A

music of the emperor

74
Q

Album Burning

A
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers

- suggest urban violence (riots and protests)

75
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“Get up, Stand Up”

A
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • political
  • project sense of African roots/ Afrocentric vision
  • timbale
76
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“I Shot the Sheriff”

A
  • Bob Marley’s first international hit
  • addressing phenomenon well known to residents of shantytown - people of color being wrongly accused
  • claimed he killed someone in self defence, while denying what was accused of
  • became a hit in part as was covered by well known English musician = Eric Clapton (successful solo career, started as blues guitar player, fell in love with African American Blues music)
77
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“Buffalo Soldier”

A
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • what the 1st African American soldiers in US were called - segregated from whites
  • sent African American soldiers to do battle to kill American Indians during war
  • simple but catchy melodic reframes - inclusivity, party atmosphere and political statement
78
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“Redemption Song”

A
  • just Bob Marley
  • music as means of survival even when you have nothing
  • dropped sounds associated with ska and reggae - just him and his guitar (focus on lyrics/message)
  • use incorrect grammar - refuse to speak English properly and remake it (disobey rules)
  • chorus - political struggles of African Americans
79
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Eric Clapton

A
  • one of the greatest blues guitarists of all time
  • covered Bob Marley’s “I shot the sheriff” - was his first #1 hit
  • put Bob Marley on international map
  • political statement = praising Enoch Powell (racist politician) and went on racist rant - has since apologized
80
Q

Chris Blackwell

A
  • grew up in Jamaica, family of British colonization descent

- had money - started Island Records

81
Q

World Music

A
  • reggae one of the first
  • Americans seek out music of others (3rd world cultures), way for westerners to vicariously experience aspects of life they feel they are denied in their civilized world
82
Q

Paul Simon

A
  • Graceland Album (1986) - one of the most successful album globally
  • recorded in South Africa - had to break international boycott (b/c of apartheid regime - legally enforced/required segregation) - controversial at time
  • breaks South African boycott records albums with South African musicians
  • used black musicians there to make a record - most successful records of the 80s
  • praised for paying black musicians double union wage
  • album brought South African musicians to attention of large audience
  • worked with ‘Ladysmith Black Mambazo’
  • criticized as didn’t give a lot of credit/royalties to South African musicians (some songs he shared credits but arguabley should have given royalties to all for creating sounds)
  • by breaking boycott, participating in apartide - had to stay in white hotels and eat at white restaurants - gave white propaganda a good name
  • album avoids any political issues
83
Q

“You can call me Al”

A
  • Paul Simon
  • performing black music in a way to treat it with little respect or sympathy
  • reinforce system of colonialism, powerful white countries went into preindustrial coloured countries and extracted resources and exploited people
84
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“Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes”

A
  • Paul Simon
  • gave co-writing credit for introduction
  • see south African’s performing, still sense of exploitation of landscape and culture
85
Q

the album ‘Graceland

A
  • Paul Simon’s album

- based off of Elvis’s house

86
Q

Disco

  • originates
  • how did record labels cater to DJs and dancers
  • who was at the centre of this culture
A
  • comes out of dance culture, designed for dancing
  • record labels catered to DJs and dancers by making extended versions of songs
  • dancers and DJs influence how records are produced - problem for classic rock musician
  • DJ at centre of disco culture - central figure - reasons why massive backlash by rock defenders (music should be about musicians bot DJs)
  • disco developed within subcultures (first NYC), by black, Latino, and gay people were main audience in early days before becoming mainstream
87
Q

Discotheque

A
  • term for Venuses where go to listen to DJs play records

- was a safe space for these people - gay rights at the time were non-existent

88
Q

Gamble and Huff

  • who are they + characteristics
  • what did they establish
  • what did they create
A
  • producers and songwriters - wanted to apply Motown strategy to funk music
  • established Philadelphia International Records
  • created Philly Soul
89
Q

what is Philly Soul?

A
  • basis of Motown and Stax, funk influence, but in sophisticated sound that could cross over from mainstream success (funk wasn’t crossing over as too black)
90
Q

House band of Philadelphia International Records + description of musical elements + their message

A
  • MFSB (mother, father, sister, brother)
  • create hallmarks of disco style
  • so much so that actually overused - all records in the late 70s had the same elements
  • project sense of rhythm that doesn’t leave anyone behind - can dance to it even if you have little experience with AA music - anyone can find the beat
  • four on the floor bass drum
  • disco high hats
  • accretion
  • lush orchestra (disco strings)
  • maintained message of black empowerment and social uplift
  • believed in emphasis on family, love, and assimilation is what would work (family values) - path for social advancement
  • dance music as unifying element - discotheque is safe space for people of all backgrounds (love and community)
  • label printed message on album “Love, Family, Unity”
91
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Four - on - the - Floor Bass Drum

A
  • in 4/4 time, 4 beats per measure
92
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Disco high hats

A
  • symbols that drummer operates with foot
93
Q

accretion

A

process of layering

94
Q

lush orchestration (disco strings)

A

make sound refined and cultivated

95
Q

“TSOP”

  • by who
  • message
  • musical elements
A
  • True Sound of Philadelphia
  • MFSB
  • Philadelphia - city of brotherly love, chocolate city, city pride
  • Philly soul - African American population committed to love and unity (got message across through song and dance)
  • message of unity
  • Latin American percussion instruments - embrace non-white cultures
  • persistent beat
96
Q

O’ Jays

A
  • recorded with MSFB - provided music in the background
97
Q

“Love Train”

  • musical elements
  • main message
A
  • O’Jays
  • four on the floor
  • not constant disco high hat but still there
  • disco strings - suggests intensity of dancing (sweaty bodies moving on dance floor)
  • transcendence
98
Q

transcendence

A

being above it all - in a safe space as a unified whole

99
Q

“I Love Music”

  • by
  • message
  • sense of what?
A
  • O’Jays
  • four on the floor
  • disco high hats
  • talks about pleasure of music, dancing, romance
  • celebrating, partying, being together
  • sense of hedonism
100
Q

Studio 54

  • where
  • targeted population
A
  • New York

- elite folks, sex, wine, dancing topless, cocaine on rise

101
Q

Disco Diva

A
  • iconic figure for members of original disco subculture
  • no demographic treated worse than African American women
  • represents model for triumph over hardships
102
Q

disco deva

A
  • someone who comes from this (oppression?) but triumphs anyways
103
Q

Gloria Gaynor

A
  • African American women who becomes disco star
104
Q

“I Will Survive”

  • by
  • message
A
  • Gloria Gaynor
  • anthem for overcoming - about breakup but metaphorically about overcoming any hardship
  • provides feel good felling of discotheque
  • released for radio - so do not hear Philly soul
  • establishes her as international star, model of disco diva
105
Q

Donna Summer

A
  • in production of “Hair”, introduced to music producer Giorgio Moroder (together forge sound = eurodisco sound)
  • eurodisco
  • elegance and sophisticated
  • marketed to whiter audience - projected images of sexuality onto disco stars (she was uncomfortable with this as she was a devoted Christian)`
106
Q

“Love to Love you Baby”

  • by
  • musical elements
A
  • Donna Summer
  • mot a lot of content to lyrics
  • several versions - radio, 8 min for discotheque, 5 min for album, originally 17 minutes long
  • scratch guitar
  • high hats
  • synthesized version of disco strings
107
Q

The Bees Gees

  • where are they from
  • producer name
  • what movie + description
A
  • brother group from Australia - in vein of Beatles to start
  • Robert Stigwood (producer) - saw disco craze coming and reinvented them into disco group
  • got them into a movie “Saturday Night Fever” - traces life of white New Yorker who loves disco (gives him his identify - king when gets onto disco floor)
  • brought disco into mainstream, that disco is good with straight white people
  • Barry Gibb - falsetto - “Staying Alive”
108
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Village People

  • producer
  • what did the producer want to do as a message
A
  • Jacques Morali - record producer - loved Philly soul - worked at PIR - hangs out at Studio 54 - impressed by subculture (gay masculinity on dance floor)
  • wanted to form band - put ad in Greenwich village saying, “Macho types wanted, must dance and have a moustache” (associated with gay masculinity
109
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“YMCA”

  • band
  • target population
  • projection of?
A
  • Village People
  • originally a place for people to go for working class men to hangout - develops into safe space for gay men to congregate - maintstream America didn’t know this
    projection of explicitly gay masculinity
110
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“In the Navy”

  • band
  • irony
A
  • Village people

- Us navy loved song and used as promotion - in exchange they filmed the song on the Navy ship