Seattle Alternative/Grunge/Hip Hop/1980's and 1990's 4-17-17 Flashcards
Elements of Hip Hop (7)
- Fashion
- Language
- Afrocentricity
- Dance
- Graffiti Art
- Rap
- Playing ‘The Dozens’
Hip Hop Socio-Cultural Influences (4)
- South Bronx, New York
- Perspectives / outlooks
- Housing projects
- Gangs
Hotbed for new punk variant: Grunge
Seattle, Washington
Lead singer/vocals for Nirvana
Kurt Cobain
Early Rap Style Characteristics (2)
- Brag Rap
- Party Rap
Early Rap Pioneers (2)
- The Beastie Boys
- Run DMC
MC Hammers 1st million seller rap album
‘Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em’
What was the P.M.R.C reaction?
Parent Music Resource Center
1990’s Socio-cultural influences (9)
- Multiple optioned society
- Continued fragmentation of society
- Multiculturalism
- Internet
- Video Gaming
- End of the Cold War
- Rise of Jihads
- Economic Boom
- Clinton Impeachment
What was the Lilith Fair?
Showcase of female performers
Who founded the Lilith Fair founder?
Sarah McLachlan
The most important cut from Nirvana’s Nevermind album?
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Quote from Malcolm X?
Fight the power
Alanis Morissette Contributions? (5)
- Lilith Fair
- 16 Juno Awards
- 7 Grammy Awards
- Nominated for 2 Golden Awards
- 1995: 1st international album was the rock influenced ‘Jagged Little Pill’
The beginning of rap? (4)
- South Bronx block party traditions
- DJ’ing tradition: Playing the records / Keep it going
- Mc’ing tradition: Calls out the DJ
- Attracting the crowds
One of the earliest pioneers of Hip Hop?
DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell)
MCing tradition?
Calls out the DJ
First DJ to use multiple turn tabled
Grand Master Flash (Joseph Sadler)
First DJ to use multiple turn tables
Grand Master Flash (Joseph Sadler)
Producer for Sugar Hill Records
Sylvia Robinson
The worlds first commercial rap recording
Rappers Delight by The Sugar Hill Gang
Def Jam Records creators (2)
- Russell Simmons
- Rick Rubin
The earliest example of politics in Rap
The Message by the Furious Five
Alanis Moridsette 1st international album?
Jagged Little Pill
