Week 13a - 70s And 80s

Question 1

Disco verse punk

Answer 1

• cbgb- Ramones- originally from Forest Hills Queens.
• Punk is a thrashier new wave unsophisticated contrast to popular dance music at disco’s
• disco is filled with multi track instruments with Bondo strings and horns and elaborate harmonies that were all about keeping the audience and a dreamy pleasant mood for hours of dancing

Question 2

The birth of hip-hop

Answer 2

Originated in the Bronx hip-hop derives from many sources including funk, disco, Jamaican Dancehall, Trinidadian Picong, German techno and the ideology of Malcolm X. By DJs such as grandmaster flash and DJ cool here.
- The digital age and the importance of the turntable

Question 3

MTV

Answer 3

Started in 1981 but by 1984 the station begin charging record companies to show videos. As opposed to traditional radio broadcast, for which artists are paid royalties, MTV videos were eventually decided to be in category more kid to commercials so they were commercials