MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Horizontal Integration, Concept Album, Music Of Africa
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Three perspectives: rhythmic focus, timbral and textural complexity, (lyrical and musical) extemporization, and technological creativity, socially engaged, communicative, and expressive; response to racism and oppression, commercial growth, multicultural and transnational, and complex and polysemic. Cultural complex of hip-hop: broader culture-expressive response to social situation within which rap is identified, expressive markers (pillars): graffiti, breakdancing, clothing, speech, and music (including rap). Specifically, rapdrew on the caribbean vocalizing associated with jamaican sound systems, african rhythmic patterns, rhythm and blues and soul styles . Meaning: many and varied interpretations: product oriented: simple music and commercial fad; representative of dissolute black youth culture; expressing harsh, everyday experiences, process oriented: Represents the foregroundingof african-centered concepts in response to cultural takeovers, ruptures, and appropriations . Turntable-as-playback technology: two turntable mixing (adapted from disco djs, breakbeat music: came from practice of mixing in rhythm section breaks taken from funk and salsa tracks (accompaniment to breakdancing by b-boys)