Modern Popular Music Test Four Heavy Metal Music and Culture Whole culture that goes along with heavy metal the way we dress talk act What are the characteristics of the music Distorted electric guitars vocal timbre the volume the lyrics sing about death being pissed off about the establishment these lyrics are in an aggressive matter also explicit Who is the first heavy metal band Black Sabbath Heavy metal music grew from musical interactions between American and England What are the genres that paved way for heavy metal Hard rock rock n roll rockabilly gospel can be traced all the way back to the blues Early English heavy metal bands Led Zeppelin Deep Purple Black Sabbath Early American heavy metal bands Blue Cheer MC5 characterized by their volumes The 1980s and 1990s New Wave of British heavy metal Judas Priest Iron Maiden Motorhead Thrash Metal Slayer Megadeth Anthrax Metallica Testament Overkill and Exodus they talk about suicide death Shock Rock Alice Cooper Gwar Extreme Metal Grindcore Napalam Death Bolt Tower Norwegian Black Metal Mayhem Gorgoroth Dimmu Borgir Death metal Cannibal Corpse Immolation Morbid Angel Cerebral Bore Cannibal Corpse is popular by The electron Dylan helped them get publized and also a movie video Metal Maidens Females begin to do the harsh vocal styles Girlschool Epica Simmone Simons Nightwish Amaranth Arch Enemy Angela Gossow Crebreal Bore Simone Som Pluijmers Baby Metal Comedy Metal incorporating comedy satire and parody Tenacious D Psychostick Swashbuckle Folk Metal inclusion of folk indigenous or nationalistic elements into heavy metal music instrumentation language clothing mythology Most prevalent in Europe but is found in other areas around the world Tyr The Faroe Islands Korpiklaani Finland Chthonic Taiwan Orphaned Land Isreal The 2000s heavy metal is now found across the world Early Hip Hop Background 1970s Postindustrial state of cities lack of federal funding housing crisis urban decay Post Civil Rights Area new equalities for African Americans neglect of social consciousness by government and society Rising cost of living went up in the Bronx After civil rights movement We see this phenomenon of disco and funk during this time Musical Roots Disco New mixing technology Rising role odd j being present and creating a seamless environment one song to the next Dance breaks came where in the middle of the song you just dance Jamaican sound system style back a yard parties toasts This blends in different genres this started in jamica and then the immigrants took it to the Bronx Tradition of rap battles started to emerge personal boasting or battling back and forth Negative reaction to disco made crossing over difficult for African American musicians Malaise In Black Music 1975 1981 Hip Hop Culture Elements graffiti break dancing dj mc rapping the comes the last component but becomes central part for the movement of hip hop graffiti had a sort of dangerous part to it it begins to die out it was really the dg and mcs began to erose in this phenonmenon artistic continuities flow layering and rupture in line counter fashion prestige of names Emerged as alternative identity for youth in marginalized urban spaces Rooted in specific local experience or urban space Pioneers of Hip Hop 1 Kool Herc born in Jamaica in 1955 break spinning in clubs and parks used breaks and bridges from other records Also sampled b beats diverse array of musical sources also jamican sound s Collaborated with MC Coka not rap but announced and hyped the crowd Merry Go Round 2 Afrika Bambataa took the name from winning an essay contest and got a trip to Jamaica techno sound Planet Rock Founder of Zulu Nation fought against crime and gang culture he wanted to transform the youth into a positive way Influenced the development of global hip hop including French rapper mc solar 3 Grandmaster Flash create a lot of djs innovations including break spinning back spinning also punch phrasing allowed to repeat phrases foundation of public enemy s techniques and others Flash and furious five 1982 The Message established the rapper mc as central to hip hop Founder of scratching Two records at the same time both moving them back and forth to get both sounds The Message view of urban day life in every scene lyrics are laying out hurdles and barriers and highlighting frustration of not being able to get out of the circumstance even the presentation of the rappers themselves and the refrain keeps coming back don t push me representing ominous urban figure Flash and the furious five Rapper melle mel Established social realism in rap Presents grim portrait of life in south Bronx Mixture of humor and images of desperation Second half in toast style delivery Rappers Delight Sugar Hill Gang Sugar Hill independent label Commercial breakthrough for hip hop over 1 million copies sold in 1980 sparked series of commercial hit singles first sign of hip hop being a national phenomenon Music Video 1989 MTV show yo mtv raps important due to lack of radio play encouraged hip hop in other parts o the country presecence of ghetto imagery in videos Walk This Way First group with Gold Record Collaboration Aerosmith and Run D M C Intense rap style matching the intensity of original song Ends with virtuoso guitar solo by joe perry First video on heavy rotation on mtv 1985 Pivotal role in commercializing hip hop Early 1990s Ten years ago I called rap music black America s CNN My biggest concern now is keeping it from becoming the Cartoon Network Why do you think Chuck D made this statement Based on what you may know about hip hop what changes or issues might he be referring to within hip hop during the 1990s Hip Hop leaves The Bronx By mid 1980s a second generation of New York rap artists Whodini Fat Boys Run D M C Run DMC 1984 first gold rap album By the 1990s a culturally dominant force Fledgling scene in LA Dj crew Uncle Jam s Army World Class Wrecking Cru Ice t Public Enemy Formed in New York City Leader Chuck D MC Flavor Flav DJ Terminator X production team aka The Bomb Squad paramilitary bodyguards S1W Advanced black nationalism and Afrocentricity Politically and technically advanced lyrics It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 1988 and Fear of a Black Planet 1990 Los Angeles Rap Scene Comes into its Own Harder rhymes set to slower pace Heralded nationwide emergence of West Coast gangsta rap with the album Straight Outa Compton 1989 NWA Raps about the gansta lifestyle full of images of sex and
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