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