Must 2520

Question 1

Cultural precedents for rapping and hip hop can be found

Answer 1

In griots of west

Resembles Jamaican tradition of “toasting” [ boasting, impromptu, and saying poetry]

Question 2

Like jazz → roots of hip hop are found in

Answer 2

Aa music

Question 3

Hip hop is a cultural movement that developed in

Answer 3

→ NYC, 1970s amongst Black and Latino Americans

Question 4

Hiphop technical and

Cultural elements

Answer 4

Technical → rapping/mc, dj ( sample, beat boxing )

Cultural → graffiti, breaking (b-boyin, b-girlin)

Question 5

Raping -mc is…

Answer 5

The rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes and wordplay delivered over a beat or w/o accompaniment

Question 6

Mc-ing is

Answer 6

1 further refinement of rapping ② more metaphorically and rhythmically advanced ③ performed over complex beats - multi layered

Question 7

DJ-ing → sampling/ beat making

Answer 7

Responsible for → sampling, making beats, and producing. Essentially the one controlof the music as its being made

Question 8

Dj -ing

Answer 8

→ evolution of Jamaican dub
→ Jamaicans led the dub and mix / sampling idea

→ dj turntable evolving into a new instrument played by turntabilists → like instrumentalist but subcategory or dj

Question 9

Essential turntables techniques

Answer 9

① mixing/cutting
② scratching
③ spinning
① sampling
⑤ song choices / criteria

Question 10

Beatboxing

Answer 10

→ human imitation of instruments and imitating drum machines

Question 11

Beatboxing people

Answer 11

Doug e. Fresh- Represents the vocal percussion language of hip-hop culture and it’s primarily concerned with the art of beats rhythms and melodies using human mouth

Darren Buffy Robinson → was the human beatboxing of the fat boys and biz Mark ie

Question 12

More about bb

Answer 12

→ decline in popularity along with breakdancing in the late 80s there was a resurgence in 2000 with rahzel from the roots

Question 13

Graffiti

Answer 13

→ medical cures for the chromatic commands of the inner city

Question 14

Graffiti vocab

Answer 14

2005

Question 15

Take 183-grafiti artist

Answer 15

Birth-name: Demetrius 183:helnedon this street in Washington heights

Question 16

Breaking → dance equivalent to rap

Answer 16

Breaking is an early form of hip-hop dance developed on the East Coast

breaking began to take form in the South Bronx

Question 17

Breaking +

Answer 17

BNB boy stands for break as in break boy or break girl. Originated from the dancers at DJ cool parties

Early hip-hop dance style on the West Coast were known as popin and lockin

Question 18

Key break crews

Answer 18

① rock steady crew

② NYC breakers

Question 19

Breaks

Answer 19

→ The isolation of one particular section of a musical composition serving as a vamp for an MC or B boys/ b-girls to dance to

→ The break of the records is an environment that breakdancing was created in

Question 20

Cultural elements of hiphop

Answer 20

Rhyming, storytelling, poetry, comedy

Question 21

What would a dj have on board

Answer 21

Mixers, amplifiers, speakers

Question 22

Comedy → People

Answer 22

→ Red fox, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chapelle, Chris rock, pigmeat Markham

Question 23

Pig meat Markham

Answer 23

1950s

here comes the judge was his big hit in 1968

Question 24

DJ cool here -

Answer 24

Clive Campbell April 16, 1955
Jamaican, from the Bronx
Father of hip-hop,
 created with originated in hip-hop,
 never recorded any albums

Question 25

Kurtis blow

Answer 25

. Curtis Walker August 9, 1959
Harlem NYC
First commercially successful hip-hop artist first to sign with a major record label