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Notes on video lecture:
The Beginning of Rap
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 16, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
punch, Jamaica, late, Herc, Bambaataa, Sylvia, scratching, urban, CBGB, dance, Bronx, Haarlem, Zulu, African, analog, niche, graffiti, Coke, turn, recorded, error, violence, backward, Theodore, neighborhood, Sugar, break, gang, Flash, Barbados
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hip hop culture in the 80s
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1970s arises in New York's                American and Latino communities
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remained a regional culture
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you would have had to go to e.g. the            to see it
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it was the same thing with punk at          or Max's Kansas City
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several components to hip hop
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rap music
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got the most attention outside of New York
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break dancing
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dress
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early rap
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arises from                          parties
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Reggae music
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started in                with the sound system men
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DJ Kool Herc
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was 12 when he moved from Jamaica to the Bronx
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he had been to parties where people who are setting up the sound system and would get on the microphone and talk
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the course of doing this, he developed:
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the MC
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brought in          La Rock
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encouraged people to do            dancing
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called them break boys and break girls
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prolonged the breaks in records
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it would break down to a good sounding a beat
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took a cool section of a song and repeats it
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gets to          tables and two copies of the same record
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keeps going back between the two and starts talking
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two people influenced by DJ Kool Herc
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Grandmaster Flash
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born in                 
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moved to the Bronx
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took up the practice of two turn tables from DJ Kool         
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developed           -phrasing
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most DJs today are working on a computer or laptop
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but back then it was              sampling
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sampling by using actual turn tables and records
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there was a lot of room for           
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it took a lot of skill to pull this off
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one of the first to use                     
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moving the need                 
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although most rap historians would say that the person who created this technique was actually Grand Wizzard                 
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perfected it and made it a signature part of his style
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showed a virtuosity of being a DJ, a specialty of transforming these received sounds and turn them into more effective sounds in a            context than they would have otherwise been
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none of this at the beginning was                 
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you had to go to one of these performances to hear it
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there were not rap records until the          1970s
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Afrika                   
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a former          leader
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his idea was to use hip hop music and rap music to bring youth together to get them out of gang related activity and                 
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must like midnight basketball, etc.
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spend that energy in a positive way
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established a group called Universal          Nation
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accredited with inventing the term Hip Hop
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the term had been in the vernacular
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but Bambaataa put his trade mark on the idea of Hip Hop of his idea of this culture
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late 1970s began to be recording
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nobody before this thought that there would be a rap record
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Sylvia Robinson attended a party in               
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heard some kids chanting over a song by Chic "Good Times"
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she thought it was catchy
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she had experience in the music business
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she had experience as Mickey &             
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1958 they had the hit "Love Is Strange"
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1973 "Pillow Talk"
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created a novelty record
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called the group the            Hill Gang
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1979 Rapper's Delight
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Kurtis Blow
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1980 The Breaks Part 1
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Grandmaster            and the Furious Five
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1982 The Message
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dealt with the negative sides of            life
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up until 1982, rap was still a small, regional            market, but some bands had shown that you could create albums with rap

Spelling Corrections:

virtuousity ⇒ virtuosity

Ideas and Concepts:

DJ technique learned via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "Phrase Mixing is the alignment of phrases of two tracks in a mix. This allows the transition between the tracks to be done without breaking the musical structure. Because most electronic dance music tracks have 4/4 time signature and a simple structure of 16-bar phrases, to align the phrases of two tracks it is often enough to start the track to be mixed in at a phrase boundary in the track currently playing. Careful phrasing can produce a seamless mix by making the breaks in two tracks coincide, or aligning the break in one track with the start of the beat in the other."
First rap song and painful return to the 70s via tonight's History of Rock and Roll class: "Although people were rapping throughout the 70s, nobody thought of recording any of it as a record. You had to go to a DJ party to hear it. In the late 70s, however, Sylvia Robinson of Mickey & Sylvia and Pillow Talk fame, attended one of these parties in Haarlem and heard some kids chanting over the song "Good Times" by Chic. She thought what they were doing was catchy and since she had experience in the music business, she got the kids together and created the group called the Sugar Hill Gang. In 1979, they recorded the first rap song, Rapper's Delight."
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The Uniqueness of James Brown
Bob Marley and the Rise of Reggae
The Backlash Against Disco
1975-1980: The Rise of the Mega-Αlbum
Continuity Bands in the 1970s
Rock and Roll in the Second Half of the 1970s
U.S. Punk 1967-1975
1974-77: Punk in the UK
American New Wave 1977-80
British New Wave 1977-80
The Hippie Aesthetic: 1966-1980
The Rise of MTV
Michael Jackson: MTV's Unexpected Boon
Madonna as Disruptive Shock Artist
Prince and Janet Jackson
Other Groups Who Benefited from MTV
1980s New Traditionalists and New Wave
1980s New Acts, Old Styles and Blue-Eyed Soul
1970s Progressive Rock Adapts to the 80s
1980's Heavy Metal
1980s Heavy Metal and L.A. Hair Bands
1980s Ambitious Heavy Metal
The Beginning of Rap
1980s: Rap Crosses Over to Mainstream
Late 1980s Hard Core Rap
Punk Goes Hardcore
Late 80s Indie Rock Underground
1990s: The Rise of Alternative Rock
1990s Indie Rock and the Question of Selling Out
1990s Metal and Alternative Extensions
Hip-Hop in the 1990s
Classic Rock of the 1990s
1990s Jam Bands and Britpop
Female Singer-Songwriters of the 1990s
The Rise of Teen Idols in the 1990s
1990s Dance Music