MUH 2019 Fall Final Exam Study Guide Genres Disco derived from the word discotheque first used in Europe in the 1960s to refer to nightclubs devoted to the playing of recorded music for dancing Saturday Night Fever launched the music into the mainstream Disco is characterized by the heavy use of synthesizers and a regular heavily accented beat Metal heavy a guitar led styles of blues flavoured rock featuring dense textures extremely loud volumes and intense vocals Heavy metal has developed into various streams over the decades including o Hardcore speed metal o Thrash metal o Black metal o Death metal o Shock metal o Etc Hip hop culture forged by African American Puerto Rican and Carribbean American youth in New York City in the late 1970s includes distinctive styles of visual art graffiti dance dress and speech o Rap music grew out of the movement at first spread by pioneering DJs like Afrika Bambaataa and Kool Herc who spun and mixed different source recordings DJs formed their own groups featuring dancers and MCs who rapped or rhymed to the musical accompaniment Punk a loud fast moving and aggressive form of rock music popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s Grunge an alternative rock movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s center in Seattle Washington featuring a do it yourself anti mainstream rock attitude intense vocals and loud unremitting accompaniments The band Nirvana and particularly its leader singer songwriter Kurt Cobain exemplified the movement EDM electronic dance music music largely produced for playback by DJs and is produced primarily for dance based entertainment environments such as nightclubs raves and festivals World Music a term developed in the late 1980s to describe non Western music usually those that incorporated elements of Western rock or pop music Reggae a popular form of Jamaican dance music that weds aspects of R B and native musical styles Bob Marley was the most famous proponent of the style Iscathimiya South African music Developed during apartheid with Zulu migrants Funk a musical style derived from R B and soul music characterized by repeated rhythmic figures and a strong bass line also known as gangsta rap Terms DJ one who plays recordings either on a radio program or in a live performance involving the use of pre existing recordings most common in hip hop and techno music Emcee started with toasting Afrika Bambaataa Godfather of Hip Hop B Boying breakdancing characterized by acrobatic moves Graffiti tagging writing or signing one s name Double dutch jump rope style Sampling a digital recording process wherein a sound source is recorded or sampled with a microphone converted into a stream of binary numbers that represent the profile of the sound quantized and stored in computer memory Digital Recording a system of sound recordings that transforms sound waves into a stream of numbers 0s and 1s which is converted back to an analog wave by a digital to analog converter in order to be heard Analog Recording a system or recordings in which the energy of sound waves is transformed into physical imprints as in pre 1925 acoustic recordings or into electronic waveforms that closely follow and can be used to reproduce the shape of the sound waves themselves MP3 a variant of MPEG compression system that allows sound files to be compressed to as little as one twelfth of their original size Sitar Indian guitar MTV Music Television a cable television channel founded in 1981 that featured videos of popular musical performers Thug Life Yo MTV Raps first hip hop show in MTV spread hip hop to larger national Video Music Box first hip hop television show that premiered in 1983 created by audience Ralph McDonald Parent Music Resource Center group formed in 1985 with the goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music Places Detroit Techno Chicago House Music South Africa Iscathimiya Lady Smith Black Mambazo Senegal Sister Fa Xuman Venezuela Latin metal Cultura Tres New York City Be able to name specific boroughs Jamaica Reggae Bob Marley and the Wailers o Bronx Funk o Manhattan folk music club CBGB San Francisco became a primary center of hip hop innovation supported by a handful of independent labels and one of the few commercial AM stations nationwide to feature hip hop programming KDAY South Central Los Angeles distinctive regional variations on the formula of hip hop music were well established here and other places the social commitment of People Public Enemy supplanted by the outlaw swagger of artists such as Ice T who in 1987 recorded the theme song for Colors Dennis Hopper s violent film about gang police warfare located here Bob Marley singer songwriter and political activist from Jamaica Sister Fa West African hip hop artist from Senegal Spoek Mathambo rapper in South Africa Xuman politically active hip hop artist from Senegal George Clinton mastermind of the bands Parliament and Funkadelic Grandmaster Flash hip hop recording artist and DJ one of the pioneers of hip hop DJing cutting and mixing Johnny Rotten John Lyndon lead singer for Sex Pistols Kool Herc self proclaimed first hip hop DJ Patti Smith first recognizable artist to play at CBGB The Sex Pistols outraged British political establishment Bruce Springsteen American singer songwriter who is best known for Born in the USA Mambazo Madonna Like A Virgin Prince Where Doves Cry one of the most popular music superstars of the last three decades one of the most talented musicians ever to achieve mass commercial success in the field of popular music Michael Jackson King of Pop Thriller moonwalk Paul Simon Simon and Garfunkel did a Graceland tour with Ladysmith Black Donna Summer disco singer who performed Love To Love You Baby Chic disco singer who performed Good Times Parliament Funkadelic hard funk rock music mid 1970s changed stage performance James Brown represented Black pride and black nationalism shift from gospel influenced soul to funk Sugar Hill Gang Rapper s Delight put rap on national radar Public Enemy band brought together by their interest in hip hop culture and political activism Night of the Living Baseheads NWA Niggaz With Attitude west coast gangsta rap band Fuck Tha Police Tupac west coast up and coming star signed with Death Row Records Biggie Smalls east coast up and coming star signed with Bad Boy Records New York Dolls major influence fashion gender bending succumbed to drug and alcohol abuse anti fashion The Ramones 1975 recording contract 1976
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