MUSC 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sitar, Rapping, Urban Renewal
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Scale system used in heavy metal to give a darker effect and represent power. Rap starting up: urban renewal, allow people that live in the suburbs to get in. Stable communities for decades ended up moving out. People who could not afford to live elsewhere could afford to live their. Battle: talk about how great they are, put other one down. Rap songs: names of people and how they contributed. Lyrics in terms of pop culture and self reflexive: how lyrics in rapper"s delight reflect tradition. Stop in the name of love - motown. Middle beatles: norweigan wood, tax man, nowhere man. Lyrics could be about love but still be late bealtes: metre: mixed metre. Pop revival abba: much more singable. Represents the people: american instruments, names women, about working class. Prince brings back african american and euro-american together. Cadenza everybody starts and one instrumentalist or vocalist shows off. Don"t stop till you get enough : disco.